“Moving house … what is it that has led me away from the present, to another
place and another time? How is that I have arrived here or there? … The work
of inhabitance involves orientation devices; ways of extending bodies into
spaces that create new folds, or new contours of what we could call livable or
inhabitable space.”
(Sara Ahmed. 2006. Queer Phenomenology, p. 10f)
In the second of the two project exhibitions, we returned to the Domenig Steinhaus in Carinthia, one of the places that we had visited for reflection at the end of simularr’s second interval.
The presence of the building starkly contrasts with the almost ‘black cube’ we found at the Neue Galerie. It reminded us that one of the principle tenets of our research was the interference
of physical/architectural spaces with our co-laboration practices.
We are in the final stages of setting up the second exhibition of simularr, titled A House of Simultaneous Arrivals, returning to the Domenig Steinhaus at Lake Ossiach, Carinthia. The opening will be on Saturday 23 August, 4 pm, the show runs until 21 September.
The exhibition presents artistic works that explore the idea of spaces as woven from memories, encounters, shared thoughts and aesthetical interventions. Its aim is to envision a place that is not only a physical structure but that also embodies the simultaneity of arrivals of all those who participated, and the richness of shared experience. The exhibition was conceived, developed, and realised within the framework of simularr by an international group of artists-researchers.
We baptised the first of two project exhibitions Solids in Revolution. It runs at the Neue Galerie Graz between 24 May and 21 September 2025.
Here we bring together the material forms and the notations of shared processes, making it possible to witness the play of proximity and distance among the individuals, and to witness how forms and ideas reappear in unexpected places.
The title is inspired by rotational movement that transforms curves into volumes, turns contours into spatial forms. Taking the geometrical abstraction of ‘solids of revolution’ further, such movement could metaphorically signify the type of undertaking involved in the creation of an exhibition from artistic research – an interregnum between artistic practice and systematic inquiry, in which questions on aesthetics, knowledge and ethics not only depend on each other, but constitute a rhizomatic weave.
We were excited to present the simularr project on 08 May in Porto at the Conference of the Society for Artistic Research – SAR25, under the theme of ‘Resonance’.
It was a great opportunity, as we have now completed all three project intervals, and could therefore draw connections among them. SAR is a lovely conference with a chance to meet and network with a lot of people across all disciplines within artistic research. We travelled with many colleagues and students from our research institution, the GMPU Klagenfurt.
simularr was, from the very beginning, planned to conclude with an exhibition, among other things, that brings together the distinct approaches developed over the project’s time span.
A lot has been said and written about the exposure or exposition of artistic research, and we have constantly employed means to expose our research to the fellow team members, using
digital platforms such as the Research Catalogue or physical spaces in form of ‘meta-expositions’. The idea of meta exposition being that artefacts and notations that had already
be exposed within the group as we were working together would be brought back and united in a space to form of a database that we can than rearrange, interrogate, interrelate.
