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 Photos of the exhibition
Four tapestries from the ongoing project Documentary Embroidery Office hang in the entrance room, seen here are the works “Alef-Bet of Jessy Cohen” (left) created in Jessy Cohen, a neighbourhood of Holon, Israel in 2012 and “Bio grad na Neretvi” from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2014.
“End of the Season 2013 in Lower Štoj” (left) from Lower Štoj, Montenegro, 2013 and “Aradacka Krizovka” from Aradac, Serbia, 2013.
The tapestries are created in specific localities with collaborative and inclusive methods via the traditional technique of embroidery. They focus strongly on the particularities and problematics of the communities amongst which they are produced.
Detail of "Bio grad na Neretvi, 2014.
Multiple videos and textual graphics compose the visual presentation of Andreja Kulunčić’s long-term transdisciplinary research project “Creative Strategies”, started in 2010. The platform handles the dynamics of personal and collective creativity, with a focus on self-organised communities, and how these strategies can be activated.
In < rotor >, two modules of Kulunčić’s project are presented. They engage with the notions of public space and the central focus of creative-problem solving in two differing urban spaces: public space surrounding a huge building “Mamutica” in the city district of Travno, Zagreb and underprivileged communities in the outskirts of Mexico City.
Two video works from the artist duo bankleer (“Minority in Majority” and “Happiness Economics”, both 2011) are displayed and thematise the experiences of life within the city district of Předlice, Ústí nad Labem (CZ), mostly inhabited by Roma communities.
Detail of the wall panels by bankleer, which depict scenes from the video “Minority in Majority”, 2011.
”Building Relationships” and “Real Fiction Sentences”, both 2014, from Landscape Choreography are interactive installations from the collective, who places the human body and participation as central importance in the construction of new urban landscapes.
Two video works „Gardening with Gilles Clément“, 2014 and „What if in Mănăştur“, 2013, along with photo documentation capture the interdisciplinary collaborations of Landscape Choreography, which took place in Cottbus (DE), Cluj-Napoca (RO) and Taranto (IT).
The café room plays host to the main body of the Cartography Workshop, a six-month community-driven project which aims to reimagine the public space and meaning of three local neighbourhoods: Griesplatz, Volksgarten and Andrä-platz.
“Griesplatz”, 2014, by Robin Klengel (left) displaces the conventional cardinal directions and positions Griesplatz in the centre of the world.
A collective timeline of the Andrä-platz, part of the long-term “Cartography Workshop” developed by Daniela Brasil, Robin Klengel, Judith Laister, Anton Lederer, Margarethe Makovec, Maximilian Tonsern, and Markus Waitschacher.

Photos: Thomas Raggam