The term “mixed couple” alludes to a form of heterogamy, to an alliance of couples socially different.

It is an evident phenomenon, in actually looking for the “different” partner.

When these differences are motivated, or even interpreted as having more than one origin, things obviously become complicated.

It is a case of differences between social groups, populations, cultural worlds. “Them” and “us”, swallows the mixed couple - single family, at the same time giving a particular form to conflicts and negotiations (on gender models, on relationships with relatives, etc.)

Differences emerge more clearly when there are children. On the other hand, mixed couple, demand more to be recognised and confirmed in particular when there are children. The couple finds itself confronted with models of socialisation and of relations, which cannot be recomposed once and for all. The “trans-cultural work” of a mixed family in a certain sense is never done.

Especially inter-racial marriages mark a breaking down of barriers and of the hierarchy between “races”.

The “differences” are socially stronger and more organised, especially in the religious field. Mixed couple can happen if he/she does not place too much importance on own religion, a weak identification, on the part of both partners, with their own differences.

Those which are mixed due to religion or to nationality (and even more when religion and nationality are combined) also always imply possible conflicts about rules, including juridical ones, and on appropriated authorities or institutions to turn to in case of conflict.

Those ‘soft’ identities which help integration

Chiara Saraceno

ERROR in Garden

29 August - 9 September 2010 Werfenweng/Austria

Explore Error as a phenomenon which stimulates a constant change. Error like a biological mutant, as error in formatting, as universal phenomena that transforms, interrupts, connects, and renews.

Artists: Cezara Colesnik, Diana Braescu, Elsa Martini, Erwin Maria Hafner,  Matlinda Mehmetaj, Patrick Cauvin, Sonja Lixl, Suela Qoshja, Sung Heun Kim

Project ERROR in Garden had 2 main events:

Exhibition ERROR in Garden and live & performance `Illuminate`.

Atelier Ruhdorf, place where artists developed their projects.

 

Project was included in program of Werfenwenger Weis Festival. Werfenweng is one of the Alpine Pearls, a network of 21 hand-picked alpine destinations, in European Alps.

Werfenwenger Weis is an exciting Festival which takes place every 3 years, featuring international artist from different disciplines visuals, brass ensembles, folk musicians, dance troupes, etc. www.tourismus-werfenweng.at

Guest-houses provided 12 days, full board accommodation for artists. During the period of Art Meeting project 2010, excursions and other activities have been organized.

suela qoshja, dog eating roses

patrick cauvin, first error

`Illumination` action painting & performance

The performance ´Illuminate´ was designed as an action painting.

Artists: Diana Braesku, Elsa Martini, Erwin Maria Hafner, Matlinda Mehmetaj, Patrick Cauvin and Suela Qoshja were part of action. Orchestra Werfenweng has plaid music, from composer Gerhard Hafner, during the performance. Special sound effects where made from sculptor Sung Huen Kim.

 

27 August - 30 September 2009

Autonomous stream Hohenwerfen Salzburg

with artists: Ashraf Abbas, Ana Zoe Pop, Elsa Martini, Erwin Maria Hafner, Istvan Balog, Lojze Kalinšek, Patrick Cauvin, Suela Qoshja

This show is dedicated to exploring structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through art. This transformed art world is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal 'texts' but also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity offers resistance to symbolic readings. Through these terms, ´Autonomous stream´ aim to bring together transitional figures of thought in art fields. The well-known 'resistance in the materials' and in painting, the emergence of a whole through the patterning of smaller elements, the presentation of an 'all over' composition in a series of canvases, and with regard to the body: the permanent becoming-other of an apparently fixed and bordered identity;
The artists list chosen for this show is meant to be suggestive, not restrictive, of the range of interests we hope to accommodate. As the conscious embrace of constraints - in arts - , can be productive not narrowing, so is our exhibition designed to be generative and to stitch together the diverse Trans-disciplinary approaches.

suela qoshja

mariana felcman

ana zoe pop

3 October 2009

Lange Nacht der Museen www.langenacht.orf.at

Exhibition with artists: Suela Qoshja, Mariana Felcman, Margarita Vul, Elsa Martini, Hose Majoral, Erwin Maria Hafner Ashraf Abbas, Istvan Balog, Lojze Kalinšek, Patrick Cauvin, Maria Cristina Onet

ashraf abas, nameless trip

Special guest artist from Haiti, Patrick Cauvin.
Children atelier: Children draw and paint from 18 till 20
Party : Music life and bar till morning

Ruhdorf Atelier, Werfenweng

audience working in atelier