The intervention Caorle on Karlsplatz was realized as part of the Open Karlsplatz Vienna City Festival program. For this project Margot Pilz placed sand mounds weighing several tons, palm trees and three recliners around the pond facing the St. Charles Church. In this way, the artist brought the vacation in Italy, which at the time had become a mass cultural phenomenon, directly into Vienna's inner city, simultaneously counterbalancing the rising status of the city as a tourist destination. Protests by the clergy followed shortly after the opening of the installation, declaring that it would not tolerate sparsely clothed visitors in front of the church's doors.