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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Memory is a flood, writes Ocean Vuong.[1] It is something we cannot easily control as it is already controlled by different triggers. Except in cases when our memory blocks some, usually traumatic, experiences, everything else can surge at certain moments. Both good memories, which can provide inner comfort and warmth, and bad memories, from which we'd like to hide, seem to overwhelm us. There are also second-hand memories. What I mean is that these memories are not about our own experiences and life events but of other people. The people who share with us what they remember, their stories become intertwined with our own memories. Sometimes, they don't even have to tell us anything.

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INITIATIVE, ESSAYBarbora Horskáimproper walls1/2024
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME YOU CAN AFFORD
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME YOU CAN AFFORD

People with low incomes in Vienna receive assistance, just as they do elsewhere. However, Vienna also invests in new housing and the renovation of old buildings, so the Viennese have an advantage of both systems. One of the differences between Vienna and other cities is that social housing flats are incorporated here in all districts and most of them are mixed with privately owned flats in the buildings. This keeps the rent down and ensures a real mish-mash of people living together.

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INTERVIEW WITH AMAAENA
INTERVIEW WITH AMAAENA

“In my opinion, empathy is an infinitely complex topic. if you deal with it, you immediately come up against hard pro and con positions. I was particularly interested in the question of how empathy affects socio-political courses and social interaction. This topic is also the basis of my new collection. In the implementation of the cooperation, however, I wanted to move away from the hard political space and travel to a warm place that is characterized by empathy at eye level.”

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QM&A Open Call
QM&A Open Call

“Our focus is on bringing together people who work in different disciplines and have a different perspective on Vienna’s art sector and its inclusivity. In most cases that means that we pair an artist who only recently arrived in Vienna as a migrant or refugee with an artist who has already been living in Vienna for a long time.”

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INTERVIEW WITH OSCAR CUETO
INTERVIEW WITH OSCAR CUETO

Oscar Cueto was born in Mexico City, lives and works in Austria. His work elaborates exercises of writing narratives and reflects on the mechanisms that construct the notion of historicity, knowledge, memory and identity. Such themes are often developed as fictions and in recent work as installations in which the public can interact. His work is part of important collections such as Jumex in Mexico City, Vienna Museum, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles. Since 2017 Cueto has been inviting curators and artists to Austria to collaborate on his nomadic project MUME/ Museo Mexicano.

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ARTIST'S VIEW, INITIATIVEBarbora Horskáimproper wallstenth