A collaborative project by
Katleen Vermeir &
Ronny Heiremans
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A.I.R is an ongoing project, encompassing various collaborations in different formats. Short for artist-in-residence, A.I.R refers to the appropriation of empty industrial spaces by artists in sixties New York. Since 1970 this living format has been giving a new shape and real estate value to post industrial areas in cities all over the world. Today the term itself has become the equivalent of a nomadic and temporary working environment for emerging artists.
A.I.R examines architecture as a significant ideological gesture. It allows Vermeir & Heiremans to deconstruct their own renovated postindustrial space as a system of representation. This specific living space is investigated as an all but neutral place. It seems to be conditioned by all kinds of projected longings and desires. Vermeir and Heiremans interpret their home as a “construction” in every meaning of the word.
Since 2006 they have been developing A.I.R as a series of mediated extensions of their habitat, a comment on the modern habit of relating to architecture not from physical experience, but rather from magazines, television, exhibitions…
