Under the title "thishousebylines", performer, choreographer and urban practitioner Daniel Aschwanden, visual artist Barbara Eichhorn and social designer Joanna Zabielska will be realizing a series of new projects from August 14 to September 6, 2020 in front of the Baugrupppen-Haus "Grätzelmixer" in the new Sonnwendviertel, in three parks and at a subway station in Vienna Favoriten a multidimensional, urban art project: At five locations in the 10th district a performative art installation of up to 200 m² in size and 3 meters in hight will be created from recycled building materials from the surrounding area. The temporary space sculptures function as three-dimensional drawing surfaces and are used or "performatively drawn on" by the artists themselves and - in the context of workshops - by an interested audience. This means: drawing (on freely chosen themes), but the artistic-creative act of drawing, one of the most immediate, analogous forms of artistic expression, is consciously declared a whole-body action or performance. The dance inspires the drawing and the drawn is interpreted as notation and score for movement.
In the "Pop up Solarcafé" of the artist Irene Lucas, an additional culinary and thus social level is offered with joint cooking events, food, drink and conversations that focus on new urban ecologies.

After the interventions in the district and the return of the installation "thishousebylines" to the front square of the toZOMIA artspace, phase 2 of the project begins. With interested persons, the further use of the recycled wood as well as the future design of the new home of the toZOMIA artspace in the house Gleis 21 will be discussed. In several workshops - also extended by new materials - this opinion forming process takes place. For example, the artist Anna Khodorkovskaya invites the participants to jointly create a mosaic at the base of the terrace of Haus Gleis 21.

Motivation & Goals
The aim is to use artistic-performative means to investigate the significance of personal contact and exchange in times of increasing digitalisation - a topic that is highly relevant against the background of the distancing requirements imposed by Corona. In addition, the phenomenon of smart, economized architectural complexes with increasingly less open spaces will be explored and encouraged to exchange and network among the residents of the old and new quarters in Favoriten.

Addressees
The temporary installations invite you to linger, ask questions, reflect and participate. They enable artistic ways of acting and thinking as well as sensual acting. They address residents, neighbours and passers-by on site as well as an interested art audience.