"100 Instructions for Action" presents ideas and perspectives of contemporary art, passers-by are asked to perform acts, do movements with their bodies or to stop and reflect - all for a maximum of five minutes. The multi-part installation of the Kunsthalle Vienna and its project space is geared to urban residents interested in art and passers-by (whether strollers, hurriers or dawdlers). The "100 Instructions for Action" on bright yellow panels mounted on lamp posts survey Karlsplatz in a new way, placing it in a new cartography. The art trail leads away from the well-trodden routes of everyday life and allows the onlooker to experience Karlsplatz with artistic eyes and ideas.

The instructions distributed all over Karlsplatz have as many different foci as contemporary art itself - no. 17: "Lie down under a tree as if you had fallen over!" (Erwin Wurm), no. 7: "Build an oven in your mental eye" (Pipolitti Rist) or no. 47: "Try to define yourself between two languages" (Jan Svenungsson). Or also no. 35: "Don’t pay any attention to instructions to act" (Stocker).

Text extract: Gerald Matt, Roland Schöny,in: Public Art Vienna. Departures - Works - Interventions. 2004 - 2007.