Schmiede26: Ai Ai Ai

“ay, ay, ay” — pain, delight, despair.
“aye, aye” — understood.
AI.

Three syllables, three meanings, no agreement.

We build, we name, we deploy — hoping context will follow.
But context is the one thing we haven’t built.

And still: aye, aye.
We proceed as if understanding were guaranteed by momentum.

With Ai Ai Ai, Schmiede26 continues the FAUST (Schmiede25) trajectory — not by resolving ambiguity, but by stepping into it.

Not a finished statement.
A starting signal.

A temporary ground for cooperation and community — alive, open.
A shared workspace where context is shaped through making.
Where meaning is tested in practice, revised in dialogue, sharpened in friction.

An invitation to risk unfinished ideas.
To experiment in public.
To build the conditions in which understanding might emerge.

Not certainty — movement.
Not answers — process.
Not heroes — participation.

Join the experiment.

Schmiede26: Ai Ai Ai
SEP 16. – 26. 2026
Apply till May 31st


Impressions of Schmiede past.
Schmiede in 5:20 – old but true.
Rewilding Cultures at Schmiede 2024
There are as many Schmiedes as Smiths. Isch Schmag Disch
Artist in Residence at Schmiede – Documentations
collecting supportive calls here