Each month Improper Walls team will select brain and soulfood for you, then stir it up into a newsletter and our brand new blog.
Fotolog was a very popular social media platform in Spain and Latin-America which disappeared from the Internet some years ago. Or did it somehow survive?
In this issue of “I run high on the New and I love the Old” we will meet librarian robots, mid-2000s emos and a business model that might have saved us from losing our self-determination.
“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.”
Read More“Our Vision is to create an archive of the art scene in Vienna, a verbal photo album. We believe that artists can learn so much from each other and it is important to give them a platform to share.”
Read MoreWhether you call it winter blues or seasonal affective disorder, the end of February brings a promise that it’s finally over. Unless you have the opposite pattern of SAD and spring brings you into a downward spiral after months of calm. In that case, just know that you’re going to pull through and the world turns grey again soon. But if your well-being is more “being” than “well” no matter what the weather looks like, know that you’re doing great too! And when your brain gets confused about creating serotonin again, let alone how to keep it running long enough for you to notice, reach out!
Read MoreMy personal interest about the cultural scene in Russia and how it is influenced by politics, was growing for some time, especially after the last summer events in Belarus. And although Belarus and Russia are countries neighboring my home land Lithuania, I realise I know almost nothing about art and culture there.
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.
Read MoreFor all the music lovers who feel a bit lost in these times of cancelled events - there is still time to dream, even if it’s a duck’s dream! Maybe concerts are part of a (hopefully not too) far off future, but new music still makes its way through to us. Besides the excitement of an upcoming gig you’ve waited for so long for, the thrill of listening to an album for the very first time is pretty much as tingly and delightful. For this reason, Improper Dose took the challenge to make an interview in English with the German band International Music and asked them to share a bit about their everyday life over the past year and the upcoming album Ententraum (transl.: a duckling's dream).
Read More"I run high on the New and I love the Old" is a monthly comic exploring the Internet in its middle-ages, before the supremacy of Facebook but after Geocities. Pedro del Real (@triquidick) explores and reflects on different social media platforms, many having now disappeared, that played an important role in his teenage years.
Read MoreI, meanwhile, do not have to go on a date during times of multiple Covid variants because I have commenced a torrid love affair with Roger, the peperomia argyreia plant sitting in my office. We’ve known each other for only a few months as he was an impulse buy off one of those Instagram ads, but I really feel that we have a connection like I’ve never had with anyone, or anything else.
Read MoreAndrea Zapanta Scharf is a freelance illustrator and artist from New York City, currently based in Vienna, Austria. Her work is rooted in finding and expressing a playful spirit and radiating joy, beauty and humor through various forms including illustration, animation, mixed-media collage, product/surface design, paper sculpture, and more.
Read MoreAsta Cink and Erika Farina expand their work and bring it to a new level by creating contact points between the textile surfaces and the analog images in a joint exhibition.
Read MoreOur first merch photoshooting with gorgeous Aaron Scherer and Ted Green!
Read MoreSo much excitement for this new year as if the virus promised to disappear with the stroke of midnight. It’s the end of the first month and what we have instead is its new mutation, neverending lockdown, rich people cutting the line for a vaccination and Austria celebrating Holocaust Memorial Day by deporting fully integrated families with children who were born in the country and can’t even speak their parents’ mother tongue.
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