A Group exhibition by students of the course “Technologies/Practices | Digital Communication and Media Worlds”
Exhibiting:
Ana Mikadze & Keita Sugiyama, Ariane Ranegger, Juárez Suarez, Lotta Dallermassl, Paula Peters, Saba Eshghi, storm (Julia Souza)
WHEN
Vernissage:Friday: 26.06.2026, 19:00
Finissage: Friday: 03.07.2026, 14:00
Workshop: The Tinkerer’s Desk – Collective Tinkering Workshop by Ana Mikadze & Keita Sugiyama
26.06.26, 15:00 – 19:00
28.06.26, 13:00 – 17:00
02.07.26, 17:00 – 20:00
Opening hours:
26.06.26, 15:00 – 19:00
27.06.26, 17:00 – 19:00
28.06.26, 13:00 – 17:00
29.06.26, 17:00 – 19:00
01.07.26, 17:00 – 19:00
02.07.26, 17:00 – 20:00
03.07.26, 12:00 – 14:00
WHERE: Mz* Baltazar’s Lab‘ (Jägerstraße 52-54, 1200 Wien)
Floating Affections emerges from distinct geographies converging in Vienna. It brings together artistic practices that explore subjectivity in a world shaped by cultural, migratory and affective currents. The exhibition reflects on how we inhabit space-time when belonging is fluid, proposing affect as a compass to move within the current.
The course “Technologies/Practices | Digital Communication and Media Worlds” of the KKP study program at the University of Applied Arts Vienna is taught collectively by members of Mz* Baltazar’s Lab’: Anna Watzinger, Evamaria Müller, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Olivia Jaques and Sarah Wilhelmy. The exhibition is the outcome of this year’s semester topic “Currents and Tendencies” and is taking place at the space of Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory.
The Tinkerer’s Desk
Ana Mikadze & Keita Sugiyama
The Tinkerer’s Desk is an interactive in-progress installation, that takes the classic image of the lonely genius at their worktable in order to deconstruct it. The table used here accommodates several participants with no hierarchy of different ability. During the three-hour live activation, visitors are invited to record six seconds of sound – a breath, a word, a tone or a random noise in order to play them through a broken speaker, which will be disassembled and assembled by hand on the spot. The broken speaker is not repaired so much as redirected: imperfection is retained as character. The speakers, which were activated during the workshop, accumulate into a site-specific polyphonic instrument — a spontaneous collection of a particular space, a particular group of people as well as a particular duration of time. Each speaker holds one record. Together, they can be played: triggered individually or in combination, they produce a sound environment, that belongs to no single author or fixed composition.
The Tinkerer’s Desk — Collective Tinkering Workshop
We will repair speakers, record sounds and play each audio through a speaker. The more people join, the more the room fills with sound. At the end of the day, the speakers are assembled into one collective instrument — made from whatever everyone brought, repaired and recorded.
At the workshop we will work in small groups of 1-3 people. It is possible to drop in and out anytime during the proposed times. However, it is recommended staying around 3 hours to get the whole experience.
What to bring: broken speaker (if you have one), a six-second lasting sound (or you may record one on the spot). No skills and no registration required!
Workshop Dates
26.06.26, 15:00 – 19:00
28.06.26, 13:00 – 17:00
02.07.26, 17:00 – 20:00
Aus-Grenzen
Ariane Ranegger
Borders are human-made constructs that depending on our origin, history, or political circumstances, can be easier or more difficult to cross. Rivers don’t recognize these borders. They flow continuously through countries, regardless of how far cultures and societies may have drifted apart. Rivers are often reshaped, divided, or obstructed by humans, yet they continue to carve their own way forward and cannot truly be stopped. Along the same river, prosperity and destruction, stability and uncertainty, proximity and distance exist simultaneously.
The work focuses particularly on the Danube, which due to its geographical position, connects a large number of countries and societies. The river becomes a projection surface for different realities, that are able to coexist at the same time. The river appears less as a clearly defined place and more as a movement that links different realities while exposing their contradictions at the same time.
In this work a current is understood as something that resists fixed orders and boundaries. While political systems attempt to divide spaces and people, the river remains a constant. It connects, shapes and passes through — regardless of how far societies move away from one another.
¡Buenos días!
Juárez Suárez
¡Buenos días! is a mixed media work that approaches digital communication as a form of emotional current. Images, videos and metadata travel continuously between Mexico City and Vienna. The work divides intimate imagery from its informational residue, carrying traces of absent conversations and fragments of family affection across technological infrastructures.
Separated into two embedded displays, one screen shows the “good morning” images sent by the artist’s family, while the other presents metadata indicating the time the images were sent from Mexico City and the corresponding time in Vienna. Together, they form a kind of digital tide, where affection doesn’t express stable presence but rather emerges as a movement, latency, repetition and flow.
The work reflects on forms of care, displaced within standardized images and habitual gestures – expressions of intimacy that may function simultaneously as emotional extension, substitute, or placeholder. Rather than resolving this ambiguity, the painting remains suspended within it.
Traces
Lotta Dallermassl
Since 2016, I have been collecting sounds to capture feelings, situations, places, moods and dreams. To me, just as photographs, they do capture specific moments to preserve a memory. For the exhibition I have put together my personal collection of sound memories. You are very welcome to browse through my memory collection! (Don’t forget, a cassette has two sides!)
(un)titled
Paula Peters
The work emerged through a multi-day movement study across forest landscapes of the surrounding area of Vienna. Beginning from subtle shifts in light, atmosphere and presence within the landscape, it initiates an open process of perception and as well of capturing these ephemeral conditions through videography, photography and drawing as a starting point for further research. Where do moments of connection arise — between nature, oneself, the consciousness, the unconsciousness?
Home
Saba Eshghi
What brings me back home? When you are far away, there are moments when your body relaxes, your mind goes quiet and for a few seconds you feel like you are home. You cannot always explain why — a sound, a smell, a sensation that carries you back. Something almost invisible.
Is home really just a place? Or can it live inside people? In the taste of a meal, in a familiar voice, in a language, that was never learned but simply known?
This sound project is a collection of those moments — the ones, where I suddenly felt home. Voices of people I love, recorded two years ago when I was still living in Iran: the Farsi language, my mother tongue, sounds of my mother and the people closest to me. And the question, which I brought with me to Vienna: What does home mean to you?
Home may not be a place you return to. Sometimes it finds you in a foreign accent, in a song, in an unexpected moment of silence.
It’s forbidden to forbid! Alternative Music as Resistance and Cultural Revolution
storm (Julia Souza)
This installation explores alternative music in Brazil and Japan. I created the posters, researched and designed the brochure. It was my intention to illustrate each band’s style and to communicate how these bands used music to challenge authority, disrupt cultural norms and foster new collective identities and cultural movements in every sense. The research covers the period from the 1960s to the present and also comments on dictatorship in Brazil and discussions about the rights of Japan’s working class.