An urban space is given a specific
signature by artistic interventions which make this space
unique and add personality and identity to it. In their projects
the six (groups of) artists perceive the Fischerstiege as
an urban organism and give the space a second, hidden, shape – an “alter
ego” – by means of their artistic constructions.
By sharpening or disguising its contours this “alter
ego” contributes to the appearance of the original
shape.
According to Viennese chronicles the Fischerstiege and
the Salvatorgasse are located in one of the oldest spots
in Vienna:
Legends and official historiography meet each other on the
border of the inner city and turn this area into a place
with an exciting profile.
Once a fishing village and historically very old the neighborhood
of the Fischerstiege has always been a place of trade and
historical departures. Two essential Gemeindebauten [residential
estates
of the Municipality of Vienna] from the postwar period adjoin
to middle-class houses and the Old City Hall. Legends of
old Vienna intersect with the architectural residua of one
of the
city’s oldest districts. The Fischerstiege was the theater
of the civic revolutionaries’ defense against the imperial
troops in 1848. Moreover, the archives of the Documentation
Centre of Austrian Resistance in the Old City Hall, where the
crimes of National Socialism in Austria are documented and
scientifically investigated, are located in close vicinity
to it.
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Over the past decade a number of art-related activities
were or still are accommodated in the area of Fischerstiege/Salvatorgasse:
several workshops and showrooms, a small publishing house,
a bookshop, a number of social spaces. The there resident
museum in progress expressed an art outside the galleries,
on public billboards, in daily newspapers. Not far from there,
at the Salzgries, a branch of the University of Applied Arts
Vienna is located.
First of all, these artistic interventions aim at making
the Fischerstiege visible by means of these constructions
and at sharpening the local population’s awareness
for the public space in this particular environment. The
possibility of an upvaluation of the space could be the next
step. Through this process of realization and by participating
in four of the art projects both residents and passers-by
can play an active role in a process which – at best – won’t
be completed on Oct 27, 2006, the official end of the project.
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Further events:
alter ego trip
October 7, 2006, 7 pm
Finissage
October 27, 2006, 7 pm
Idea/Concept/Realization:
Gertrude Moser-Wagner / Institut für Interaktive Raumprojekte, http://fischerstiege.mur.at
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