Seven students set out to experiment and intervene, to communicate and irritate, approached the public realm in order to get right into its center with their projects. They subtly explored the relationship between self-perception and the perception by others and transformed the allegedly familiar to present it in unusual constellations. The projects of Wien, Herbst 2009 im Sommer 2010 (Vienna, Fall 2009 in Summer 2010) were seen as artistic forms of expression aimed at stimulating the investigation into and change of socially relevant processes by means of participatory and interventionist practices.

Rania Moslam & Liesl Raff: Wir wollen eine Prozession
Stuwerstraße 25, 1020 Vienna, July 8–20, 2010
Passions are subject to neighborhood borders, too. The temporary long-term project Wir wollen eine Prozession (We Want a Procession) was aimed at forging bridges between Viennese quarters: unoccupied business premises were turned into venues not only by the artists, but also by local initiatives and societies, cultural programs, and neighborhood residents. Experiences, inventories, and people won for the idea of the project were transported from one quarter to another in the form of processions.

Home is Where the Art Is

Julia Fuchs: Mein wunderbares Wohnzimmer
St.-Ulrichs-Platz, 1070 Vienna, June 24 – July 4, 2010
In a square in Vienna’s seventh municipal district, the artist covered a mobile home in knitting for Mein wunderbares Wohnzimmer (My Wonderful Living Room), creating a camouflage hood stimulating critical questions concerning the idea of intimacy, home, and its protection against the world outside.

Stephanie Misa: The Schrebergarten, Untitled
Karlsplatz, July 29 – August 10, 2010
Stephanie Misa’s intervention in the form of a field research project was dedicated to the Smolagasse garden plot community in Stadlau in Vienna’s twenty-second municipal district. The results of the research project were presented in a mobile home that served as a lab.

Heike Kastler: Paradice
Bruno-Kreisky-Park, 1050 Vienna, September 5–12, 2010
A colorfully decorated ice cream cart mobile home and ice cream in abundance: ice breakers with names such as Workaholics, Economic Miracle Cones, Chocolate Dream Jobs, and Vitamin B Bombs sweetened the time for all ice cream lovers without making them think of nothing but the sunny side of their everyday.

Julia Fuchs, Heike Kastler, and Stephanie Misa: Mein wunderbares Atelier
The art initiative Home is Where the Art Is resulted in setting up an archive of the interventions that had focused on issues of home and domesticity under the title Mein wunderbares Atelier (My Wonderful Studio). The shared mobile home that had been transformed for each individual project provided the platform for the archive. The artists worked on their experiences in the public realm of Vienna and presented them to the public again.

Bryndis Björnsdóttir: Cross Cultural Competency Center
June 14–20, 2010
Staying in Vienna for several months, the Icelandic artist Bryndis Björnsdóttir developed a Cross Cultural Competency Center in the form of a mobile wooden stall. Within one week, she realized a number of site-specific interventions in various places of the city. All interventions were pivoted on the question how different cultures meet each other in public places characterized by historical and structural specifics from the artist’s point of view.

Eva Seiler: Straßenparade – die Versammlung
The installation Street Parade – The Assembly focused on the function of the border post as an inconspicuous element in urban space that escapes the everyday eye until it finds a new role.