Artist Talk | Anna Witt, Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka In Conversation With ISCP’s Alison Kuo
December 14, 2021 at 7PM
The ACFNY will host a virtual artist talk between the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)’s art residency manager, Alison Kuo, and Austrian artists-in-residency Anna Witt and Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka. During this talk, the artists give an introduction to their art and creative processes and discuss with Alison about their experiences, artwork, and the future to come.
This artist talk is available to view on the ACFNY YouTube channel on December 14 at 7 PM EST. Watch here:
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Anna Witt, Unboxing the Future, 2019, 3-channel 4K video, 29:09 min
Anna Witt’s artistic practice is performative, participatory, and political. She creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power structures as well as conventions of speaking and acting. Her public experimental arrangements often physically draw passersby by repeating imitation of specifically coded gestures and developing complex choreographies, thus giving the participants an opportunity for individual articulation and authorship.
Anna Witt has exhibited work at Belvedere 21, Vienna; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; and KW Institue for Contemporary Art, Berlin, among others.
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Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka, Sodom Vienna, 2020, performance for the ongoing project Sodom Vienna, in collaboration with Gin Müller, Peter Kotzek, Thomas Hörl, et al.
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka work with staged photography and utilize performance as a tool to investigate queer strategies as well as mythology and the notion of collective cultural memory. This extends to video, interactive happenings as well as performative interventions in which boundaries of prevailing gender roles, constructed exoticisms, and standardization processes are confronted with the notion of a queer utopia.
Larissa Kopp & Florian Aschka has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; and Belvedere 21, Austria, among others.
ABOUT ISCP
ISCP supports the creative development of artists and curators and promotes exchange through residencies and public programs. Housed in a former factory in Brooklyn, with thirty-five light-filled work studios and two galleries, ISCP organizes exhibitions, events and offsite projects, which are free and open to all, sustaining a vibrant community of contemporary art practitioners and diverse audiences. Over 1,500 artists and curators from more than eighty-five countries, including the United States have undertaken residencies at ISCP.