Mapping the Unseen ( 2019-2021)
investigated unseen undiscussed topics, topics that are absent from public discourse, because of their implicit taboo potential.
Finally, a web-based, animated room was created:
The virtual mapping is a cartography of all the chosen topics, assembled artworks, interviews,
academic publications and research outcomes, creating a new discourse leading to a transcultural space. Visitors are invited to explore the interactive virtual archive by means of animated 3D graphics and a blue
cube simulation.
It can be understood as a platform which is freely accessible from anywhere via
the internet in such a way that the relational aspect of the project is also explorable here in an
aesthetically perceptual way. The concept is therefore that through the moment of encounter
something becomes visible in its phenomenological sense. Before that it stays in an invisible
mode. The interaction alone brings the project and its artefacts to the surface - how they are
made visible and to what extent can be seen as an inherent part of the mapping.
Here you can enter the virtual mapping of Mapping the Unseen:
https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/
The artistic research strived for a programmatic visual and discursive treatment of chosen topics, which were identified and selected by participating art groups in Croatia, Iran, Bangladesh. Central in the process was a person, who migrated because of personal, economic, or political reasons to
Carinthia (Austria). They became so-called guides in the project and the connection to the
artists/art groups in their former residence. The interventions according to the chosen topics
„LGBTIQ“ (chosen by the Croatian partner Vox Feminae), „The devoid of the subjecthood of the
invisible ROHINGYA REFUGEES“ (chosen by the Bangladesh partner artist Ebadur Rahman) and
the topic „DISCRIMINATION AND ARTISTIC FREEDOM“ (chosen by the Iranian partner artist
Mana Mira) were shown in the respective cities for several days in empty disused spaces such as
temporary vacant salesrooms or business offices.
Publications – work in progress 2021/22
Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5515501 https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/
Ackerl Konstantin, K. Mapping the Unseen. Ein künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt. In Gugg, R., Wassilios, B., Sünker, H., Coelsch-Foisner, S. (Eds) Utopie und Widerstand: Bloch, Ideologiekritik und Bildung. conflict & communication online, Vol. 20. Nr.2. 2021. https://regener-online.de/journalcco/2021_2/pdf/ackerl-konstantin2021.pdf
Ackerl Konstantin, K; Kopeinig, R. (2022). Mapping the Unseen, In Queer STS Forum. Queer interventions. Volume 6. 2021. https://queersts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Forum-6-2021_Mapping-the-unseen.pdf
Klein, R. (2021). Walking along – Heteromatrixial strips, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/reginaKLEIN_Walking_alone-heteromatrixial_strips.pdf
Klein, R. (2021). Crossing over – Bordermatrixial meshes, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/reginaKLEIN_Crossing_over%E2%80%93bordermatrixial_meshes.pdf
Klein, R. (2021). Sliding out – Transmatrixial gaps, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/reginaKLEIN_Sliding_out%E2%80%93transmatrixial_gaps.pdf
Kopeinig, R. (2021). The biographical space, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/THE_BIOGRAPHICAL_SPACE.pdf
Kopeinig, R. (2021). The biographical reading, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/THE_BIOGRAPHICAL_READING.pdf
Kopeinig, R. (2021). The biographical naming, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/THE_BIOGRAPHICAL_NAMING.pdf
Rodriguez Rodriguez, M. (2021). Matters of visibility, matters and voice, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/vortrag_mapping_the_unseen_rodriguez.pdf
Ukowitz, M. (2021). About the Seen and the Unseen, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/The_Seen_and_the_Unseen_mu_virtual%20mapping.pdf
Ukowitz, M. (2021). The difficult discourse on the very intimate: LGBTIQ in Mapping the Unseen, In Ackerl Konstantin, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/LGBTIQ_mu_virtual%20mapping.pdf
Ukowitz, M. and Ackerl Konstantin, K. (in preparation). Deconstruction and development. Collective learning in an artistic research setting, In Werquin P., Klein, R. and Ravet, S. (Eds.) Decolonising Recognition. Editions Atlantique (open access, www.decolonising.openrecognition.org)
Yildiz, Erol (2021). From methodological nationalism to methodological transculturalism. Counterpoint considerations, In Ackerl, K. (Eds.) Mapping the Unseen. The Virtual Mapping. https://virtual.mappingtheunseen.com/pdfs/Methodologischer_Transkulturalismus_Englische_Version.pdf
Exhibition 2021
Ackerl Konstantin,K. „Mapping the Unseen“, Exhibition at the Museum am Bach. “Intopia. Welt ohne Lügen. Recherchen zu sozialen Modellen der Moderne. Sammlungsschau“, 21.8. - 31.10.2021 https://museumambach.com/
Exhibition 2022
Ackerl Konstantin, K. „The virtual mapping of Mapping the Unseen“, Austrian part of the digital exhibition by creative europe „free to create, create to be free“. 2022. https://freetocreate.art/
Conferences/Lectures 2021
Ackerl Konstantin, K. (2021). Erwünschtes / Unsichtbares / Unsagbares zum Thema Repräsentation und (Un-)Möglichkeit. Universität die Angewandte Wien. 13.1.2021 (online).
Ackerl Konstantin, K., Hudelist, A. (2021). Mapping the Unseen. SAR. 12. internat. artistic research online conference. 8.4.2021 (online).
Ackerl Konstantin, K., Kopeinig, R., Klein, R. (2021). Mapping the Unseen. Universität Innsbruck. 3. 5.2021 (online)
Ackerl Konstantin, K. (2021). Online release event for the virtual mapping. 24./25./26.06.2021 (online).
Ackerl Konstantin, K.. (2021). Mapping the Unseen. Kunstuniversität Linz. Abteilung für künstlerische Wissenspraktiken. 24.11.2021 (online).
Ackerl Konstantin, K., Ukowitz, M. (2021).How to span boundaries? Methodological reflections on transdiciplinary cooperation involving artistic and social science. International Transdisciplinarity Conference. Universität ETH Zürich. 15.9.2021 Pre-crafted video presentation and online discussion.
Ackerl Konstantin, K. (2021). Ambivalente Un_sichtbarkeiten, Panel: the art of intervention, Mapping the Unseen. 8. Konferenz der ÖGGF (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung). 22.9.2021 (online).
Ackerl Konstantin, K., Hudelist, A. (2021). Mapping the Unseen. Research days of the Universität Klagenfurt/Dep.Visual Culture. 30.9.2021
Hudelist, A. (2021). Within dialogical aesthetics. About the potential of being in-between. Mapping the Unseen. Online release event for the virtual mapping, 24.06.2021 (online).
Klein, R. (2021). Depth hermeneutical insights into ‘Mapping the Unseen’. Mapping the Unseen. Online release event for the virtual mapping, 24.06.2021 (online).
Kopeinig, R. (2021). The Biographical Re-Presentation. Mapping the Unseen. Mapping the Unseen. Online release event for the virtual mapping, 24.06.2021 (online).
Rodriguez Rodriguez, M. (2021). Matters of visibility, matters and voice. Mapping the Unseen. Online release event for the virtual mapping, 26.06.2021 (online).
Ukowitz M. (2021).The seen and the unseen. Exploration of an ambiguous concept. Mapping the Unseen. Online release event for the virtual mapping, 24.06.2021 (online).
Yildiz, E. (2021). From methodological nationalism to methodological transculturalism. Counterpoint considerations Mapping the Unseen. Online release event for the virtual mapping, 26.06.2021 (online).
The interventions temporarily disturbed the use of the room: an unused room is being used. In doing so, the concept of “void” was contextualised dialectically in its heterotopian approach: an empty room is filled with a topic that is absent in social dialogue. The resulting state of plenitude was playing field for artists, scientists, NGOs and the public, effectively a room for dialogue and discussion. Following this,
parts of the project were invited to Austria, where the respective guide actually lived, to enable
an intercultural dialogue. Central to this was the confrontation with the Austrian field of
discourse on the topic, as local artists, NGO’s and researchers offered their contribution from
their point of view. The research was accompanied by transdisciplinary qualitative social
research, biographical workshops, audience interviews, auto-ethnography, and depth
hermeneutic analysis in the reflection phases.