What Would Artists Do? is an agency/festival presenting consultancy services by artists. You can participate in unfolding artworks via messenger conversations and research surveys, and join us in a collective thought process around the Artist As Consultant. The practices of the artists represented here move beyond the formats and economies of the art market and academia. They challenge the dominance of the consultancy industry and its methods as they pervade our political environment and social lives. What Would Artists Do? is the next step towards a cooperative agency for artists‘ performative knowledge practices and succeeds the workshop Artists Have The Answers?.
Artist Project Group (Bernhard Garnicnig, Lukas Heistinger, Andrea Steves)
Original Soundtrack for m h y t n i x, a moving image artwork created with Karin Ferrari and Peter Moosgaard, comissioned by ORFIII Pixel, Bytes & Film.
During a sailing trip on the Limfjord, the artist community of Aalborg declared Aalborg the first city in the world to adopt an Anti-Artwashing Agreement in their cultural policy making process.
For the Bregenz Biennale 2016, an airplane was chartered to announced the realization of 26 imaginary and immaterial artworks by invited artists. The sunset at Lake Constance seen from Bregenz on the 14th of August 2016 was declared as a work of art. The works are preserved as printed postcards and are now in circulation worldwide.
Richard Prinz, Swetlana Heger, Mathias Garnitschnig, Tim Hartmann, Philipp Leissing, Commendatore Himi Burmeister, Lisi Hämmerle, Rainer Ganahl, Philipp Preuss, Paul Mittler, Maria Anwander Und Ruben Aubrecht, Uwe Jäntsch
Lecture Performance at L’Exposition Imaginaire, Kunsthalle Wien. We talk about the essence of cultural institutions in the post-digital age and imagine the next steps in the genealogy of Wunderkammer – Museum – Archive.
Maren Mayer-Schwieger, Fabian Faltin, Anne Faucheret
Open between November and December of 2015, the Supergood Concept Store hosted a program of performances and workshops, while also operating as a speakeasy superfood bar. This opened up an ambiguous space between product and performance, animating notions of self-optimization, body politics, and postcolonial smoothie cultures.
Bregenz Biennale is a site-specific intervention in the cultural landscape of a small town that finds itself set idyllically at a large alpine lake. It focusses on ephemeral forms of art in public space, avoiding commodification and industrialization but encouraging abstraction and discovery.
Jamie Allen, Albert Allgaier, Simone Borghi, Sean J Patrick Carney, Martin Chramosta, Claude Closky, Constant Dullaart, Fabian Faltin, Karin Ferrari, Alec Finlay, Peter Fritzenwallner, Michele Gabriele, Bernhard Garnicnig, Thomas Geiger, Katharina Höglinger, Barbara Anna Husar, Lisa Kainz, Lital Khaikin, Rick Lins, Romain Mader, Maria Maeser, Fernando Mesquita, Marco Rios, Lina Rukevičiūtė & Lina Zaveckytė, Driton Selmani, Lena Sieder-Semlitsch, Benjamin Tomasi, Gruppe Uno W ien, Noburo W atanabe, Seth Weiner, Arnaud Wohlhauser
A 1:1 scale model of an art institution for the wireless belle époque. The Palais des Beaux Arts is a conceptual art space set between the historical and stylistic presence of the pre-Secessionist Jugendstil landmark from 1908 and the material and electromagnetic layers of the public space around it. Selected international artists and curators are commissioned to create site-specific works and interventions on our wireless network and the unmarked space around it. The vernissage is on the trottoir. Bernhard Garnicnig was the Very Artistic Director between 2014 and 2018 and was succeeded by Seth Weiner.