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Wrights & Sites

11 to 30 June 2007

Tickets and information:
Tanzquartier Wien, Mon-Sat 10 am - 7 pm, Sun 10 am - 6 pm, Phone +43-1-581 35 91, www.tqw.at

Let yourself be led astray!

Particularly in the warm time of the year, Vienna again invites you to go wandering and strolling. But the urban flaneur is distinguished not just by enjoyment but also by curiosity, the renewed discovery of the apparently well-known and everyday. The British artists’ collective Wrights & Sites, has raised this conscious city-wandering to an art form as a humorous-subversive answer to tourism and the  culture industry, and out of it has developed the concept of the Mis-Guide, which has already been carried out in several European cities to great acclaim.

An 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) chose 16 projects from 140 Mis-Guide ideas submitted by 140 Viennese and experts on Vienna, which were accompanied by Wrights & Sites up to their three-week implementation and are now taking place throughout the city.

We wish you many surprising and exciting journeys of discovery to known and unknown places in Vienna.

 
Wrights & Sites (Stephen Hodge, Phil Smith, Simon Persighetti and Cathy Turner) from Exeter/England, originally worked on site-specific performances until they discovered their common  weakness for cartography, geography and town and country planning. Their instructions on unusual city tours can be read in the Mis-Guide guidebooks A Mis-Guide to Exeter (2003), A Courtauld Mis-Guide (2003) and A Mis-Guide to Anywhere (2006).

www.mis-guide.com

 
Opening
Mon 11 June 7.30 pm, Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Pay as you wish

Preview of all Mis-Guide tours by Wrights & Sites and lecture by the philosopher and chair of the Da Ponte Institute Herbert Lachmayer on the subject of Walking and Talking into Existence.

Wrights & Sites present their Mis-Guide concept and all the Vienna tours in an entertaining way. Herbert Lachmayer talks about urban staging, the staging of the city as a stage, about our attention threatened by lack of mystery and about how we can return to the present and be rewarded for it with the suddenness of enjoyment and happiness.


The Mis-Guide Tours of Vienna

1. 5-Minute Revolutions
2. Ways Out of Vienna
3. Detourism. A-1210 Leopoldau
4. The City Belongs to You!
5. The Zone
6. First Listen Up – Decolonising Vienna Tour
7. Follow me, Hold this
8. Guided by Accident
9. Hüttenzauber
10. Lean Against the City
11. Lehmann’s Addresses
12. Last Places
13. Mood.routes
14. Real Crime Walk
15. Soundwalk
16. Suburb Safari

1. 5minute revolutions (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Nathalie Koger (D/A) and Miriam Raggam (A)

Mon 11 – Sat 30 June
daily 2 pm – 10 pm, Sun until 9 pm
Place: inner-city districts
Starting point: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Duration: individual

On purchasing the tickets in the Tanzquartier Wien you will receive a revolution kit and the associated instructions for action

Is public space actually still there for  everyone? In Vienna, too, one can see that it is ever more regulated in favour of a wealthy, bourgeois public. For “nuisances” like street artists or the homeless, their presence is made as unpleasant as possible. The 5minute revolutions kit is a case with objects and rebellious suggestions for action. It opens up the opportunity to make invisible control and exclusion mechanisms experienceable and visible. Stickers, recordings of street musicians, sleeping masks and more promise several five minutes of revolutionary-legal game playing in the Vienna city centre.

Nathalie Koger was born in 1978 in Nußbach (D) in a family of craft workers, Miriam Raggam followed in 1983 in a complicated family relationship in Graz. After leaving the rural idyll and detours through England as well as courses in sociology, pedagogics, fine arts and architecture, the two increasingly decided on free art and met in Vienna.

2. Ways out of Vienna (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Karin Eva Swoboda (D/A)

Sun 17 and Sun 24 June, 12 am
Meeting point: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
End: approx. 19.00 (including breaks)
Minimum age: 10
Hiking clothes and food for the journey recommended.

Are you sick of Vienna? Have you got to get a dodgy load out of the country? Is a pursuer after you, or have you just got good reasons to disappear from the scene for a while?

This Vienna tour opens escape routes for anyone who wants to flee the city: go underground in secret subterranean passageways, make off through fire escapes, walls and provincial boundaries, through primeval forest thickets or through the Danube, to the ideal helicopter pad and ready-to-go escape vehicle. Here, everyone can leave Vienna behind them – continually keeping their nose ahead of any pursuer. Discover the most exciting escape routes in Vienna and on the city borders. Third Man and James Bond feelings guaranteed.

Karin Eva Swoboda was born in 1965 in Freiburg (D) and studied at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Initially working as a practising musician and teacher, then in the public cultural sector, she is now developing interdisciplinary art projects for companies and public institutions.

3. detourism. A-1210 Leopoldau (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Luciano Parodi (RA/A)

Place: Wien 21, Leopoldau
Mon 11 – Sat 30 June
Time and duration according to individual choice
You will receive a guidebook to Leopoldau when buying your ticket

You have to travel a long way to see a “proof of hills”. In a tightrope-walk through the mental and geographical borders of Vienna you get there: to Leopoldau. A place that is only now being linked to the underground network. A place to which Luciano Parodi opens a secret door. Following Parodi’s guidebook means diving into a landscape without fine buildings, without the façade of history. It means sauntering and roaming guided by the command of programmed casualness. To follow a path, to seek coordinates, and certainly to get lost in the process. To experience the poetry of the everyday: private paradises, no-entry signs, anti-gardens, echoing passages and much more, made visible by Parodi’s poetic guidebook.

Luciano Parodi was born in 1976 in Junín/Argentina. First he was an architect in Buenos Aires. Then he came to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. Now he lives and works in and between Vienna and Buenos Aires.

4. The City Belongs to You! (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Johann Schneider (A)

Fri 22 and Sat 23 June, 4 pm, Sat 30 June, 1 pm
Meeting point: Yppenplatz, 1160 Wien
Duration: approx. 90 min
Tickets only from the Tanzquartier Wien / Studios

Travel through Vienna with the undisputed Vienna public transport specialist Johann Schneider (aged 10). He knows all the tram models, for example the ULF. He knows where you can buy his favourite model and in which exotic country the double-decker Vienna trams of 1920 are still running. You will learn a lot on this detailed public city sightseeing tour, which includes a shop at the tram museum, for example how many people are allowed standing per square meter in an underground train in Tokyo. You will ride the tightest curve on the Vienna underground. But beware! Afterwards you will never be able to get on a train without thinking about the model and the year it was built. But you will know if it is an ULF.

Johann Schneider is ten years old and lives at the Brunnenmarkt in Vienna. He likes eating ice cream and profiteroles. He thinks fish from the Gourmet is horrible. At school he likes maths, as long as he doesn’t have to do hundred or thousand long-division sums. Next year he will be eleven, although he has hardly got used to being ten.

In cooperation with Götz Bury

5. The Zone (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Karl Bruckschwaiger (A)

Mon 11 June 2.30 pm
Sat 16, Tue 7 pm and Thurs 28 June, 7 pm
Place: Aspanggründe
Meeting place: St Marx S-Bahn Station, 1030 Vienna
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Tickets only from the Tanzquartier Wien / Studios. Hiking clothes and good shoes required.

In the middle of the third district is the Aspanggründe, a 22-hectare area of industrial wasteland. It finds itself in the middle of a transition from a turbulent past – among other things during the Nazi period – and a gigantically planned future with thousands of homes and jobs. The Aspanggründe are the Zone. Karl Bruckschwaiger leads the way through the Zone using the stick-throwing method, borrowed from Andrei Tarkovski’s film Stalker. There is no prescribed route. You follow the stick-throwing and the narrations of the guide through the wasteland. Decaying remains of buildings and unusual ground structures trigger stories. Through the futurist building plans and the faded photos of the past, the dimensions of urban change come to life.

Karl Bruckschwaiger studied philosophy and history in Vienna. His interest in the theatre led him through the Sparverein der Unzertrennlichen, the Stadttheater Wien and the Tanzquartier Wien to his own projects, such as Hühnermumifizierung [mummifying chickens]. Otherwise he gives lectures, translates, writes and gives guided tours of Vienna.

6. First Listen Up – Decolonising Vienna Tour (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Pamoja / Research Group on Black Austrian History and Present
Coordination: Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur (USA/A)

Mon 11 – Sat 30 June
daily 2 pm – 10 pm, Sun until 9 pm 
Places: various
Starting point: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Duration: 2 hours

The images and words of colonial scenes are firmly anchored in the Vienna city image. We encounter them in the world of desserts, as company logos and on menus. The bloody history of colonialism and slavery is covered in icing sugar and prettified. But the objects of the prettification talk back and make black Austrian history/histories audible. This audio tour promotes a contemporary confrontation with a played down, violent Viennese tradition. In the process, historical fragments of hidden survival stories and life stories of black people in this city become audible and visible.

The Research Group on Black Austrian History and Present/Pamoja links and works out artistic and academic black emancipatory subject positions. It sees itself as a working group of Pamoja, a movement of the young African diaspora in Austria.

7. Follow me, Hold this (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Cabula6 (USA/A)

Tue 12 – Fri.29 June
Tue – Fri 2 pm – 8 pm
Duration: individual
Registration required

You are given a map of the city and a telephone number. You ring up, and already you are behind the scenes of Mis-Guide – Mis-Guided Tours of Vienna. Because the production manager Marlies Pucher is on the line, on her way to check on the execution of the tours, to manage emergencies or to solve problems. Wherever Marlies is at the time, you will be there too. What ever she is doing, you will watch her and help her. As an authorised follower, you will be granted access to offices, garages and kitchens. As an instant assistant you will carry out small tasks and for a short time be able to imagine what it means to do a job as a production manager.

Cabula6 is an international performance group under the artistic direction of Jeremy Xido (USA) and Claudia Heu (A). They play with the boundary between reality and fiction. They seek out unconventional performance places and dedicate themselves to the principles of pleasure, humour, enquiry and adrenaline. They love playing.

http://cabula6.com/FMHTindex.htm

8. Guided by Accident (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Oliver Hangl (A) feat. maschek. (A)

Thurs 14 June, 5 pm  and 7 pm
Place: Mariahilfer Straße
Meeting point: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Duration: approx. 60 minutes

Coincidences often play a decisive role in our life, if only one lets them. But precisely in the streets of a big city, coincidence seldom has a chance. What would happen if one followed a lost glove, a child or a car with Carinthian number plates. In Guided by Accident, visitors are equipped with headphones and guided live through Mariahilfer Straße by the invisible tour guides Maschek. He or she must follow the rules of the game in which coincidence is the director. Maschek will fictionalise the place and the event and, in addition, they will tempt to regard coincidence as a chance to react to the unexpected in a creative way.

Oliver Hangl moves in performative disciplines and in media spaces as much as in the classical exhibition halls of fine arts.  His current work is characterised by breaches of reality, doublings and in-between worlds. Maschek (Peter Hörmanseder, Ulrich Salamun and Robert Stachel) are television hobbyists who in recent years have been engaged on a fixed stage (Rabenhof Theater) and regular participants in the Austrian State Television (ORF) programme Donnerstalk.

With the support of AKG, Klangfarbe, Duracell, Crumpler, shu!, McShark, Brillen.manufaktur and Hawlan Elektrotechnik

9. Hüttenzauber (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Eva Grumeth (A), Stephanie Rauch (A), Lena Winkler-Hermaden (A)

Wed 13, Fri. 15 and Fri 29 June, hourly from 5 pm
Places: 1030, 1080 and 1150 Vienna
Duration: individual
End: 10 pm
Tickets only from the Tanzquartier Wien / Studios

What is the most personal approach to Vienna? Three young Viennese women have taken this question literally and have found a deceptively simple answer to it: my flat. So they invite you to visit them at home. Enter the flat and experience the moment when the host has just left. Would you accept her invitation? She trusts you. What would you do? Where are the limits of your voyeurism. Hüttenzauber [the magic of mountain huts] opens to the public the private rooms of three lives. The secret of the identity of the hosts and the visitors remains unresolved.

The three hosts studied stage and film design together at the University for Applied Art in Vienna. Eva Grumeth works under the name Grundvier in the field of sets and production for arts projects and currently with Rainer Prohaska. Stephanie Rauch is a stage designer for performance and dance and also conceives her own projects in this field. Lena Winkler-Hermaden is a costume and stage designer for theatre and film productions. Hüttenzauber is their first joint work.

10. Lean Against the City (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Verein Freiraumexperimente (A)
with Florian Brand and Manfred Schwaba and Fritz/Frassl (Juli Fritz / Elisabeth Frassl)

Tue 12, Fri 22, Sat 23, Tue 26 and Sat 30 June, 8 pm 
Place: Vienna, city centre 
Meeting place: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Duration: approx 60 minutes, open ended

Standing around in public space for no apparent reason provokes mistrust. And in order nevertheless to be able to do this, the Verein Freiraumexperiemente [association for free-space experiments] together with Fritz/Frassl discovered the activity of leaning as camouflage. How open to leaning is Vienna? Everywhere in the city there are many still unnoticed public “bars” that invite one to lean on them and offer a relaxed view of the surroundings. Electricity boxes and gravel holders are just the more obvious. In an evening tour with stickers and drinks in their pockets, public Vienna bars will be found, tested and marked.  Then later, alone or in a group, one can go further and immortalise the bar discoveries on the blog www.lean-against-the-city.org.

The (landscape) architects Florian Brand and Manfred Schwaba teach together at the BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences) Vienna and under the label Verein Freiraumexperimente realise temporary interventions in public space, such as Münzbalkon (2004) or Abfahrt Brunnenmarkt (2006). They are realising Lean Against the City together with the fine artists Juli Fritz and Elisabeth Frassl.

11. Lehmann’s Addresses (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Georg Blaschke (A)

Mon 11 June, 5 pm, Tue 12 June 5 pm and 8 pm
Wed. 13 June 5 pm and 8 pm
Meeting point: Café Eiles, Josefstädter Straße 2, 1080 Vienna
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Tickets only from the Tanzquartier Wien / Studios. Limited number of participants.

Based on Lehmann’s Vienna address brook from the year 1935, Georg Blaschke invites you to a reminiscing walk through Vienna to trace the connecting lines from yesterday and today. The address book is extensive and detailed, ordered according to districts and street names, and each address is marked with branch signs. You  meet Georg Blaschke to study the address book together, in order to compare signs, symbols and archiving structures of then and today. You decide on a walk that you take together through personal recollections and connections, vanished buildings and old transport routes. There is time to discover, share, discuss and drink coffee.

Georg Blaschke lives in Vienna as a freelance performer, choreographer and dance trainer. He grew up in Vienna, studied mathematics and philosophy and has worked as a postman, a street sweeper, a private teacher and radiator reader.

Photo documentation: Rudi Kern. With thanks to Werner Hanak and Nikolaus Korab.

12. Last Places (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Tobias Dörr (D/A)

Mon 11 – Sat 30 June
daily  2 pm  –  10 pm, Sun until 9 pm 
Places: various
Starting point: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Duration: approx. 2 hours

A bench, the corner of a house, perhaps a café. Episodes of Vienna life stories are linked with such everyday places. Life stories that soon come to an end, because they are recorded by incurably ill people who are cared for by the mobile hospice of the Caritas of the archbishopric of Vienna. In a piece of personal recollection work, they have taped short stories on their favourite places. You select a tour intuitively from the title. Equipped with an audio guide and a city map you can travel to the favourite places of the protagonists, spend a while there and let them tell you their stories. A pensive tour through “historic” places.

Tobias Dörr, was born in Switzerland in 1977, grew up in Germany and since 2002 has studied directorship with Michael Haneke at the Vienna Film Academy.

With thanks to the mobile hospice of the Caritas of the archbishopric of Vienna, Gerda Scherwitzl and Mag. Bettina Schörgenhofer.

13. mood.routes (Zurück zur Übersicht)

art.tickles with Sergius Nolle (PL/A), Claudia Nussbaumer (A), Suna Orcun (TR/A) and Özlem Sümerol (TR/A)

Mon 11 June 12.30 am, Tue 12 June 5 pm, Sat. 16 June 4 pm
Wed 20, Thurs 9 pm and Wed 27 June, 6.30 pm
Places: various 
Meeting point: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Duration: individual
You will receive an introduction by the artists and booklet on the tour. The tour can then take place individually.

Irritable, in love, frivolous, or old-fashioned in Vienna? Mood.routes is a Vienna guide that makes it possible to experience the city differently according to your mood. The guide is based on the experience, feelings and lifestyles of non-Viennese residents of Vienna of various ages, origins and social backgrounds. What do the “arrivals” think of their choice of home? What places are emotionally significant for them? From the results of a broad questionnaire, art.tickles have condensed feeling routes through Vienna. After a filmed introduction, the visitors can select an adjective guide and inspect routes and places, sympathise and empathise.

Özlem Sümerol and Suna Orcun were both born in Istanbul in 1978 and now live in Vienna. Özlem is a culture manager, Suna an economist and musician. Claudia Nussbaumer was born in 1978 in Dornbirn and works as a motion designer and cutter. Sergius Nolle comes from Bydgoszcz/Poland. He studied architecture in Vienna and is a manager and creative director.

14. Real Crime Walk (Zurück zur Übersicht)

Michael Zinganel (A) 

Sat 30 June 3 pm and 6.30 pm
Place: Schottenring
Meeting point: main entrance to the Vienna Police Headquarters, Kriminaldirektion 3
Rossauer Lände 5, 1090 Vienna
Duration: approx. 2 hours
Tickets only from the Tanzquartier Wien / Studios. Limited number of participants.

Crime doesn’t pay?! Wrong, wrote Karl Marx in his notes on the productive power of crime: the criminal produces not only the crime itself, but also all the forms of criminal reporting, in the belle arts, in science and in the mass media, and not least all the measures taken against crime. On the trail of real and fictitious crimes, the cultural studies theorist Michael Zinganel guides the visitors along the Ringstraße and explains and transfigures the histories, building measures and architecture. From the bourgeois revolution to crimes of passion, from military-strategic structures to street ballads: Zinganel follows the trail of incredible crimes to well-known places – with a musical bonus from policeman Peter Steinbach (Wiener Blues).

Michael Zinganel works as an architecture culture theoretician, artist and curator in Graz and Vienna at exhibitions and projects on planning mythologies and everyday architecture as well as art and tourism. He is the author of Real Crime: Architektur, Stadt und Verbrechen.

15. Soundwalk (Zurück zur Übersicht)
through Mexico to Venice in Vienna

Robert Schwarz (A)

Mon 11 – Sat 30 June
daily 2 pm – 10 pm, Sun until 9 pm
Places: various
Starting point: Tanzquartier Wien / Studios
Duration: approx. 2 hours

Hearing and listening are often underestimated on most visual city guides. You look, but do you listen? Through the overlapping of two spaces – one audible and one visible – we can open up completely new virtual spaces and stray into an exceptional sensory perception. What would it be like if Mexikoplatz in Vienna also sounded like Mexico? If Dresdner Straße sounded different?
Equipped with a Walkman and a city map, the visitors go into places in Vienna and by playing the soundscapes experience these places in a completely new way. The link between place and sound may be historical, or have something to do with the name or an event. An audio tour of a sensuous kind.

Robert Schwarz was born in Vienna in 1978 and initially studied architecture and later computer music and electro-acoustic composition at the University for Music and Performing Art, Vienna. His projects have nice-sounding names like Recorderman, Wiener Geräuschorchester, The Honolulu Bound, Pingping and Roland Poland.

16. Suburb Safari (Zurück zur Übersicht)
or: Who Can Find the Mountain Goat?

KagranKollektiv (A)
Patrick Golkowsky, Helmut Preis and Stefanie Sandhäugl
Fri 15 and Fri 22 June 4 pm 
Place: Vienna Donaustadt Rubbish Dump
Meeting place: entrance to the rubbish dump, Rautenweg 83, 1220 Vienna
End: approx. 8 pm
Tickets only from the Tanzquartier Wien / Studios. Hiking clothes and good shoes required.

In the wide open steppes of the Vienna suburbs there is another country: the kingdom of rubbish. Hardly any Viennese from the city centre districts crosses the Danube voluntarily – but their rubbish does, and forms almost Alpine mountain chains there. In the 60s, the residents protested against the Rautenweg rubbish dump. They feared the dumping of hazardous waste. As proof to the contrary, the Pinzgau mountain goats were settled there, which have since then flourished. As a safari participant you will go on an adventure trip to the “Donaustadt Mountain Goat Safari Park”, to view the transdanubian mountain goats and their natural habitat among the unwanted things of the Viennese. Refreshments and souvenirs are all-inclusive in the safari lodge.

The KagranKollektiv artists’ group analyses the Donaustadt district, which is often described as a cultural desert. Patrick Golkowsky studied international economics and is a business bigwig and virtuoso brass-band player. Helmut Preis studied inter-media art and is a fashion creator and explosives expert. Stefanie Sandhäugl studied arts teaching and is an inventor.