Davide Bernardis I Materia : Curated by Carmen Lael Hines

Davide Bernardis is a conceptual filmmaker based in Berlin. His work combines documentary filmmaking with state-of-the-art image processing techniques applied in scientific research, film production and design. He embraces these technological and aesthetic conditions of perception belonging to the field of science and culture – in an effort to document the collapse of the boundaries between reality and fiction. His research explores the intersections between the natural, the artificial and the symbolic. He is a former research fellow at The Terraforming, Strelka Institute (2021) and creative director at VICE Media. He lived and worked in Milan, New York, Berlin, Nairobi, Vienna and Tbilisi. 

 

 

Carmen Lael Hines is a curator, writer, and lecturer based at the Department of Visual Cultures (TU WIEN). Her work engages Platform Capitalism and Gender/Sexuality Studies which inform work exploring digital contraception, menstrual tracking apps, dating apps, home automation, A.I, data capitalism, amongst other topics. Her academic, artistic and curatorial activities have been presented in spaces including: , Austrian Pavilion (Curatorial Team, Biennale Architettura 2021), Architekturzentrum Wien (as part of the claiming*spaces collective), Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Institute for Contemporary Art Graz, University of Bologna, e-flux Screening Room (NY), Index Foundation Stockholm (bookshop series), amongst others. She has been selected to co-curate the Fall 2023 exhibition in the Exhibit Galerie at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and will co-edit the volume ‘Dissident Practices: Posthumanism and Political Economy,’ to be published with Bloomsbury Publishing. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford, and an M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri are architects, educators and founding partners of Lemonot - a platform for spatial and relational practices, architecture and performative arts. They graduated together at the Architectural Association and they now fluctuate among London, Italy, Vienna and Stockholm: https://www.lemonot.co.uk. Their projects re-invent the relationship between urban fabric and human rituals through a wide range of media: pavilions, exhibitions, short films and performances. They constantly seek new forms of togetherness and conviviality, with a contextual yet transterritorial approach that aims to detect, celebrate and trigger the spontaneous theatre of everyday life. They experiment with the language of artistic strategies in public space, initiating unconventional acts of place-making and proposing alternative narratives as active tools to critically rethink the values our society is built on. They intervene both as facilitators and as designers - exploring how architects can contribute to a peculiar reinterpretation of the city, constructing the supporting spatial structure for things to happen and enabling collective engagement through short and long-term presence of stakeholders and physical artefacts. Their academic activity is a crucial part of Lemonot. In 2018-19, they taught as Adjunct Professors at INDA in Bangkok. Currently, Sabrina is teaching in the Foundation Course at the Architectural Association in London and Lorenzo is teaching at the University of the Applied Arts in Vienna. Together, they’re Programme Heads of the AA Visiting School El Alto (Bolivia). Their projects have been exhibited and awarded worldwide: at the Young Talent Architecture Award 2016, at the ATT19 Gallery in Bangkok, at the RIBA Live Drawing Marathon, at Vienna Design Week, at Mextropoli 2020 in Mexico City, at Milan Design Week and FAR Roma 2022, among others.