Each month Improper Walls team will select brain and soulfood for you, then stir it up into a newsletter and our brand new blog.
I know that Madame Psychosis was actually a living person in the 70s somewhere in San Francisco on the streets. The name comes from a book; I don’t know the title of the book, it was dug out by a friend and I was really happy to actually bring Madame Psychosis back to life in Vienna because I didn’t want to bury Madame Psychosis again in the darkness of Denmark.
Read MoreWe create spaces, places, universes, alone or with others; that is something I deeply believe to be true. Do we love it? It depends on how much we want to use our creative control and how much we are open to receiving. People are often afraid of beauty and freedom. Beauty because it is not going to last forever, and freedom because it comes with responsibility and it's often a one-way ticket.
Read MoreWhat happens to the User when social media starts clustering us through likes and not through our social connections? We might be entering a new Digital Era, where the social aspect of our tangible life slowly vanishes.
Read MoreWolfgang Tillmans had always been interested in how to make a phenomenon longer visible. They could be astronomical, social, or political subjects, and as a photographer, he uses diverse strategies to recall them in our minds. It seems like his artistic mind is already aware of our previous experiences, and he always finds a sensitive approach to show reality to his viewers. He dedicates his work to people and bodies, to landscapes, architectures, objects, and celestial phenomena, since he has been exploring the question of visibility since the early 1990s.
Read MorePeople 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.
Read MoreAs we are heading towards the end of the challenging month of January, February's program gives us a glimpse of something exciting to come! It's the second year that CIVA, Vienna's media art festival, is taking place.
Read MorePlaces we love exist only in us is the opening sentence in a poem by Ivan V. Lalic. This video series is a project where I ask different people to tell their stories about belonging. Every episode contains 3 art workers of younger generations having creative control over how they want to be filmed, where, and what they want to speak about.
In this episode, you will see Ale Zapata, Christos Kyritopoulos-Ninas, and Els Van Houtert trying to share their thoughts and build a mirror for collective self-reflection. Dejan Klement 2021.
Read MoreFine-textured vibrations for smooth mornings and velveteen ears. <3
Read MoreYes, Another Fucking Lockdown Edition. But as it is also the last edition of the year, let's balance the scales with a bit of gratitude because, first of all, the whole concept of Improper Dose was born out of lockdown, and I'm very grateful for that—the Dose, not the pandemic of course.
Read MoreThere is an ongoing, urgent humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border. Refugees, who are trying to get to Europe, are pushed back into the primal forest by Polish Border guards and then harassed back into the wilderness by the Belarusian military. They wander without water, food, or shelter, and the weather is getting harsher. Humanitarian activists from NGO Nomada are currently collecting smartphones so people can ping their location and ask for help.
Read MoreHarz is the aural love child of Bernd Ammann and Niklers Satanik from western Austria. Founded in 2018 by the studied musicians they began to create soundscapes based on rhythmic patterns, using bass, synth, zither, hang drum and various percussions. Meditative as well as danceable, Harz’ music evokes in-between states of flux within the listeners mind, dulling the senses for outer/worldly influences and stimulating the inner cinematic theatre.
Read MoreJUNGLE JADE delves into the fluctuating mental states that come with trying to create roots in a new space. Crossing paths as fresh arrivals in Vienna, singer- songwriter Yelvilaa (from Ghana & Hong Kong) and guitarist Shari (from Iran) quickly became good friends and collaborators, forming the project as a way to process their experiences.
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