In co-operation with the Akademie der bildenden Künste and the Viennese public libraries four art projects have been realized with the title Wall of Books VII-X dealing with the relationship between the culture of books and pictorial art. Through intervention, transposition and representation the libraries have been transformed into unique communicative spaces.
In her project Viva la Gemeindebau (Long Live the Municipality Building) Anna Witt presents the municipality building as a place to commemorate the resistance to the antidemocratic Home Guards in the 1930s by combining in a music video pictures of today’s normal working day with the sounds of the then popular workers’ songs.
Johanna Aigner produced a radio play entitled DIN 1505, in which various parts of six books are joined to form a new text, thereby creating an intertextual dialogue.
Natalie Koger’s project, Trieg 17, reminds us of the essential role libraries play in public education. In a workshop held primarily for children with reading problems, the participating children created their own animated film.
The migration history of the artists is the background for SIGNO, which was created by Elvedin Klacar und Cornelia Silli. Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian and German inscriptions on a signpost provide information about spatial distances and time differences.