A collaborative project by
Katleen Vermeir &
Ronny Heiremans
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A.I.R (2006 - )
a collaborative practice
developed by Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans
In 2006 both artists initiated A.I.R (short for 'artist in residence'), a long-term collaborative practice that examines the dynamic relation between art, architecture and economy. The practice encapsulates different projects, in which they render architecture as a space of constructs for the projection of consumer desires.
One of the ongoing projects defines their private habitat as an artwork, transforming the domestic space into a public realm. Working reflexively, the artists use their own home, a loft apartment in a post- industrial building in Brussels, as source material, producing representations of their domestic space through what they term “mediated extensions”. Different audiences will not experience the house/art work physically but through translations to formats such as lectures, exhibitions, radio/tv, websites, etc.
Another ongoing project is a series of elaborate research-based video works. Favoring a communal mode of production Vermeir & Heiremans started using A.I.R as a platform for different collaborations with a wide range of people from various yet specific backgrounds.
The first output of these research-based video projects was The Good Life (2009), a meditation on the inextricable relationship between art, real estate, art institutions and the wider structure of the economy, harnessed today by the 'creative class'. In The Residence (2012), a new production in progress, which the artists conceived during a 6- month residency in China, they focus on the artist as entrepreneur in a globalized society that qualifies economy as the only measure of things.
