Brilliant Dust
Creator of work: Hanako Geierhos (Wien, Austria)

  Brilliant Dust is a site-specific, community related installation by the German artist/designer Hanako Geierhos. It is part of Paradox Intervention an ongoing collaboration series started in 2006. Functioning as a transdisciplinary laboratory, it occurs as an utopian notion of a diverse group of artists from different medias and cultural backgrounds which work in a flat hierarchy together.

By influencing different directions through interdependencies new emergences are created. Paradox Intervention tries to focus on the interface where all disciplines in each single project meet, overlap and build a grey zone which has not been much defined before.

The title for the St. Petersburg setting is inspired by the Russian experimental track  “Brilliant Dust” by KYSKAS (Murmansk). The installation will be completed with the  Austrian Painter Florian Schmidt.

 Hanako Geierhos
was born in 1972 in Hamburg, lives / works in Vienna, studied at University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld/Germany (1995-1999), University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg (2000-2003) and University of Art and Design,  Helsinki  (2003-2007). Grants: Scholarship Japan/Shikoku (1999-2000), Carl Duisberg Foundation, Cologne. 

Projects:

2008                 “8 festival for fashion & photography”, Vienna
2008                 Mifur, Milano (exhibition)
2007                 MOA, Masters of Arts Festival,  Helsinki (exhibition)
2007                 Viscosity and Construction, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna(exhibition)
2007                 working with Fred Walter, Luneburg (fur collection)
2006                 De Fabriek, Rotterdam (Intervention)
2006                 Real-Presence, House of Legacy, Belgrade (Intervention)
2005                 Code Series, Tanzquartier Vienna (costume for Anne Juren/dance)
2005                 Hatmaker Muehlbauer, Vienna (Collection Spring/Summer 06)
2005                 working for Perfect Props, Vienna (styling)
2004                 Harvest Festival, Fiskars (installation)
2004                 Theaterhaus fur junges Publikum, Vienna (Dance)
2004                 Washi, CCL Linz/A, (Dance)
2003                 working with Tarja Niskanen, Helsinki (fur collection)

Florian Schmidt
was born1980, in Raabs/Thaya (A), lives /works in Vienna, studied at Akademie der bildenden Kunste, Vienna (1999-2006) and Hfbk Hamburg(2002-2003).

Exhibitions:

2008                 New Galerie de France, Paris, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Galerie Andre                           Huber Vienna 2007 Gallery T293,Gallery Remont,Vienna, Belgrade,                               Kunstverein Weiden(D), Michael Hall Contemporary, Neaples(It)
2006                 Kunstbunker Nuremburg(D), Galerie Kosak Hall, Vienna
2005                 Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
2004                 Projectroom Lassie, Vienna