Artistic redesign of the ticket office

At the town hall square in St. Pölten the major theatres are united in one ticket office. The redesign of the premises plays with the elements and materiality of the theatre. The large inviting glass front evokes the drama of a stage situation through the curtain that defines the interior. In the perception of spectators from outside, the visitors thus become random actors on the stage of everyday life. Theatre swivel chairs on the forecourt support this ambiguous function as multi-functional seating furniture. The new canopy roof writes the names of Lower Austrian cultural institutions on the square with delicate shadows. The entire new spatial setting creates a stage situation in the public space in which the roles of “audience” and “actors” merge and converge.

Artistic walkabout and Intervention

The site of the project is the estuary area of the Isonzo near the industrial town of Monfalcone, which on the one hand is a nature reserve, and on the other hand is characterised by an illegally established pile-dwelling settlement. This testimony to an anarchistic building culture, which is threatened with disappearance, becomes, together with the nearby shipyard, the backdrop for artistic interventions on the themes of migration, speculation and whitecollar crime and the starting point of a journey into “informal” Italy.

Space installation for a dance performance

Based on the piano compositions of Erik Satie a spatial installation was conceived that enables a special experience: Satie demanded his work be played 840 times consecutively and at a slow tempo in order to experience its meditative character. This leads to a total duration of 21 hours. The audience is immersed in an extraordinary play with space, time and repetition. Being part of the installation itself, all visitors, as recipients and actors, are invited to play with instructions for action parallel to the live piano music and to sound out personal levels of perception.

Exhibition contribution and new module for the Million Donkey Hotel

As part of the exhibition “Re-cycle – Strategies for architecture, city and planet” a new module for the Million Donkey Hotel was conceived in cooperation with the craftsmen of PrataSannita: a PublicLibrary, which as analogue library collects together all publications about the Million Donkey Hotel and the topic of travel and (e)migration. After the exhibition the installation is being brought to PrataSannita, where it will be incorporated into the small amphitheatre as library and seating furniture. If necessary it can be transformed into a special hotel bed for adventurers.

Artistic walkabout and Intervention

In the middle of Europe zones of oblivion are emerging — villages in the border area of Italy, Austria and Slovenia that have been abandoned in recent decades. On the way from Moggio Udinese at the entrance to the Aupa Valley to Mogessa di La, a remote village without road connection, memories are gathered: together the audience transports fragments of a story whose context is only constructed at the end of the procession. On arrival at the destination, the audience is transported to a Blackbox (camera obscura), a place of reflection and imagination. By providing a retrospective view, it serves as collective memory.