After more than two years in the making, we are very pleased to announce that the first comprehensive publication on the work of architect and urban planner Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz is now available in well-assorted book shops or online at Springer or Amazon.

Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz: Metasprache des Raums // Metalanguage of Space
Fiel, Wolfgang (Ed.)
Hardcover: 536 pages
Language: German, English
Publisher: SpringerWienNewYork, 2009
ISBN: 978-3-211-99197-8

In addition to his built works, projects, studies and texts, this book also contains contributions from Peter G. Auer, Wolfgang Fiel, Yona Friedman, Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Institute Critical Theory presents at White Space Zurich

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Friday 11th December 2009 – 9pm
11th December 2009 – 8th January 201 / 26 February – 20 March 2010

Archive of Shared Interests – Transfer Zone – Temporary Life – Temporary Communities
30 Theoretical approaches, architectural and artistic dossiers for communities in the Transfer Zone

Opening Hours:
Thursdays: 17.12.2009 / 7.1. 20010: 3pm – 6pm
Or on appointment: please call 079 231 33 36

Artists:

Marina Belobrovaja / Ursula Biemann / Corner College / Jeremy Deller / eggerschlatter / Finger (evolutionäre zellen) / forschungsgruppe f / Fritz Haeg / Christina Hemauer/Roman Keller / Michael Hieslmair/Michael Zinganel / interpixel / Martin Kaltwasser/Folke Köbbeling / San Keller / Pia Lanzinger / Michaela Melián / MetroZones / Peles Empire / Frédéric Post / Public Works / Alain Rappaport / raumlaborberlin / RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co) / Oliver Ressler / Shedhalle / Erik Steinbrecher / Support Structure / Szuper Gallery / tat ort / Jeanne van Heeswijk / Markus Weiss

Curated by Karin Frei Bernasconi, Siri Peyer, Dorothee Richter,
Exhibition design Jesko Fezer with Postgraduate Program in Curating, ICS ZHdK,
Graphic Design Megan Hall.

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“FLUC SHOW OFF”

fluc, In der Kubatur des Kabinetts, November 18 2009, 19:00 CET, guest: dj Gerald Moser

In Abhängigkeit von der Geschwindigkeit und dem Fortbewegungsmittel konstituiert sich der Stadtraum aus kontinuierlichen Eindrücken entlang des Bewegungskorridors oder zerfällt in die Fragmente ständig wechselnder Kulissen. Beide Aspekte bestimmen die erinnerte Setzung eines Orts, Fragment und Einheit, ständigen Korrekturen unterworfen und immer mit Unschärfen.

Wir wollen das kollektive Bild vom fluc und dem Praterstern um eine weitere Facette bereichern, wechseln dazu die Position, den Beobachtungsrahmen und wiederholen einen Vorgang mehrfach. Die Position liegt ca. 2,3m über Straßenniveau, der Rahmen ist die Windschutzscheibe eines LKW´s und der Vorgang ist die Umfahrung des Orts im Kreisverkehr am Praterstern. Die BesucherInnen sind dazu eingeladen, jeweils für eine Runde den Platz im Beifahrersitz des Fahrzeugs einzunehmen, während eine an Bord befindliche Funkkamera die Bilder aus dem Inneren der Kabine simultan ins fluc überträgt. Wer dort den Bildern folgt, hat die Möglichkeit die Bewegung aus dem Fixpunkt dieser Umlaufbahn zu re-konstruieren. Steigen Sie ein!

Depending on speed and means of transportation, urban space is constituted through a continued stream of impressions along the corridor of movement or is scattered to the fragments of ever changing sceneries. Both aspects determine how the presence of a place is been remembered, fragment and unity, subject to permanent corrections and always fuzzy.

We aim to enrich the collective imprint of the fluc and the Praterstern, by changing the position, the frame of observation, and the repeated performance of a procedure. The position is 2,3m above street level, the frame is the windscreen of a truck and the procedure is to circumnavigate the place at the Praterstern roundabout. Visitors are invited to occupy the seat next to the driver for the length of one round as a wireless camera simultaneously transmits the images from inside the driver´s cabin to the fluc. Those who follow the imagery are given the possibility to re-construct the movement from the station point of the orbit. Get on board!

tat ort: Berlinger/Fiel

With the friendly assistance of MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG

Wolfgang Fiel to participate in “Franz Michael Felder”, group exhibition, Kunstforum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch, November 8 - 29 2009.

CAMP F.M.F.

Video, 7min, sound; Public Performance, unannounced; Location: Karl Tizian Platz (public open space), KUB – Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Date: 28 June 05; Duration: 11 hours.

CAMP F.M.F. is homage to Franz Michael Felder, an enigmatic figure of 19^th century literature and political activism in Vorarlberg (Austria).

Franz Michael Felder was born on May 13, 1839 in Schoppernau (Vorarlberg) as the second son to a peasant. The highly talented autodidact developed into one of the most distinguished writers in Austria of the second half of the 19^th century. With his novels (“Nümmamüllers” and “Das Schwarzokaspale”, 1863; “Sonderlinge”, 1867; “Reich und Arm”, 1868), his papers on social reforms, and his political activism, he achieved public recognition well beyond the borders of Austria. Together with his brother-in-law, Kaspar Moosbrugger, he actively worked on matters of national education, cooperative initiatives, democracy and freedom of thought. Subsequent developments proved Felder´s work to be prophetic in many ways. Shortly before he passed away, the autobiography „Aus meinem Leben“, ends with his wedding. A few months after the early death of his wife Anna Katharina, Felder died on April 26, 1869 shortly before his 30^th birthday.

After an amazing week in Katowice, the Silesian capital in southern Poland, we are pleased to provide you with a brief outline and some images of our lastet work, developed in collaboration with Tobias Rosenberger and currently on display at Galeria Rondo Sztuki within the framework of the 2nd group exhibition of e-MobiLArt.

„REAL ESTATE”

The piece is conceived as the scaled-down model of a corporate office building, based on the modernistic typology of a space-frame structure with huge windows. Depending on what is shown on the 6 screens of the façade, their degree of transparency is altered continuously. The rooms are designed and furnished in accordance to a narrative, which involves three fictitious characters, Rosalind Sedlacek, Walter Petterson, and Dick Schuster, who work inside the compound and happen to be involved in a criminal incident. Using physical objects, moving images, light, and sound, the story unfolds step by step within a loop of 10 minutes. Short video sequences show the investigation following the public disclosure of the incident. The slow movement of the light cone is a desperate attempt to re-construct the bigger picture, a journey the visitor is invited to join!

Alexandra Berlinger, Wolfgang Fiel, Tobias Rosenberger

As part of the e-mobiLArt exhibition at the Galeria Rondo Sztuki in Katowice/Poland, we will be showing “REAL ESTATE”, a responsive object, developed in collaboration with Tobias Rosenberger. The show will open Wednesday October 28 2009. We will provide more information on this piece soon!

Catalogue published on the occasion of paraflows 09 on the general theme of “Urban Hacking” featuring:

Berlinger, A., Fiel, W. 2009. For the Birds. In: Friesinger, G. ed. Urban Hacking, paraflows 09, Vienna, edition mono/monochrom.

Currently tat ort participates in the following events:

To be continued. A series about art in public space in Lower Austria
Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, September 17 - October 3, 2009.
Kunstraum NÖ

X-Wohnungen. brut
Stuwerviertel, Vienna, September 24 - 27, 2009.
brut

tat ort to participate in:

Urban Hacking. paraflows 09 - festival for digital art and cultures
Karlsplatz, Vienna, September 10 - 20, 2009.

For the Birds LIVE
Programme

Der öffentliche Raum wird durch die Einrichtung einer privaten Zelle besetzt, die wir für die Dauer der Ausstellung bewohnen. Objekte, Boden und Wände im Inneren des Wohn- und Arbeitscontainers werden mit speziellen Mikrophonen ausgestattet und die auditiven Spuren häuslicher Aktivität live und rund um die Uhr über Lautsprecher in die Bäume der näheren Umgebung übertragen. Die Anonymität der Klangquelle entzieht die hörbaren Ereignisse aus dem Inneren der “Black Box” einer verlässlichen Zuschreibung. Das Private bleibt auch im Moment seiner Ver-öffentlichung Sinnbild unsichtbarer Aktivitäten, die sich ausschließlich durch die spezifischen klangtechnischen Eigenschaften der `abgehörten´ Objekte manifestieren.

The public space is occupied by the setup of a private cell, which we inhabit for the duration of the exhibition. Objects, floor, and the walls inside the living- and working unit are equipped with special microphones. Auditory traces of domestic activity are transmitted live and around the clock via loudspeakers into the trees of the surrounding area. Due to its anonymous source, audible events from within the “Black Box” deprive any reliable attribution. Even at the moment of its being made public, everything private remains a symbol of invisible activity and becomes manifest through the specific sound qualities of the tapped objects only.

tat ort, 2009

paraflows 09

(Image: Exhibition architecture by Wolfgang Fiel)

As we inhabit one of the boxes for the 10 days of this years paraflows exhibition, we decided to ask some guests for their personal contribution to the concept of transmitting domestic sounds from inside into trees surrounding the venue, which is what we call For the Birds. Ahead of the opening on September 10 2009, we will provide you with more specific information on their respective ideas. For now we have:

[dy´na:mo], Heribert Friedl, Christian Futscher, Manuela Mark, Gerald Moser, Berno Odo Polzer, PRINZGAU/podgorschek, Karla Valdés Rodriguez, Mario Schwary, Viktoria Tremmel.