Vienna (Austria), 2007.
Concept, curation, coaching and artistic direction by Wrights & Sites. Co-production by Tanzquartier Wien and Wiener Festwochen for the Vienna Festival 2007.
Wrights & Sites worked with 16 Viennese groups and individuals, both artists and non-artists, to prise open spaces in Vienna and bring a season of 145 mis-guided walks, actions and interventions to the city over a three-week period.
Stadtverführungen in Wien briefly opened doorways into temporary strata, taking you to wastelands, to usually guarded private places, on youthful tram rides, on safaris through the suburbs, to Mexico and beyond. Tours and audio walks. Toolkits to enable subtle street actions. Fragile disruptions. Miniature guidebooks to change your gaze on familiar Vienna, invitations to tail and follow, and a race to elude the city through its escape routes and emergency exits. Disguised in everyday life, celebrating ordinary resistance and work-a-day wars, creeping beneath the radar and enjoying disruptions in the cake shops, Stadtverführungen in Wien offered audiences tactics for changing the obvious in magical and disdained margins.
Thanks to the other members of the expert jury: from the spheres of sociology and urban planning (Anette Baldauf), cultural philosophy and anthropology (Herbert Lachmayer), composition and music (Bernhard Lang) and architecture (Bärbel Müller). In memory of Marie Zimmermann (1955-2007).
Images: Stephen Hodge, Tanzquartier Wien, Wiener Festwochen, art.tickles, Georges Schneider, Luciano Parodi.
Samples of publicity and visual material
Some of the artists at the initial 'Mis-Guide' workshop
'Lehmann's Addresses'
'Detourism. A-1210 Leopoldau'
Exploring the '5-minute revolutions' toolkit
'Lean Against the City'
'Suburb Safari, or: Who Can Find the Mountain Goat?'
Goodies in a Viennese street vending machine
'The City Belongs To You!'
'Soundwalk: through Mexico to Venice in Vienna'
'Last Places'
'mood.routes'
'The Zone'
'Guided by Accident'
A view across Vienna's rooftops
More information about the work
Further details about the overall Stadtverführungen in Wien programme and its individual projects can be found below.
A PULStv video that focuses on 2 of the 'Stadtverführungen in Wien' projects