Kunstmoschee [Art-Mosque]
The KUNSTMOSCHEE is an interactive installation located on the external grounds of the Secession from July 20th through September 30th, 2007. Thematically, it concerns the interrelationships between architecture, territorial and visual manifestations of religion, identity politics and cultural patterns of Western Europe today.
Dirndlmoschee [Dirndl Dress Mosque]
Wearable device, 12 photographs, video (2005) Commissioned by the ORTung/Cultural Department of Salzburg Government, AT Dirndlmoschee is the second project in wearable mosque series (see Nomadic Mosque project description below). The concept is based on assimilating cultural characteristics of a place into one’s own context. The Dirndl, a traditional Austrian dress, is still worn as […]
Arizona Road
“Provocative Pole” installation, video, text-image plate (2002) Commissioned by the Generali Foundation Vienna, AT The project examines the new urban phenomena of the largest black market in the Balkans, the Arizona Market located near the city of Brčko. Arizona Road was the name given by the American military to the north-south highway in Bosnia and […]
Skalamerija [Contraption]
Installation, photographs (2009) Commissioned by Stroom, The Hague, NL Skalamerija follows up on my 2002 project Arizona Road. Skalamerija is a contraption aimed at de-formalizing the Arizona Market’s current highly regulated spatial order, which has led to its recession. Ever since its regulation in 2002, the trade and urban development of the Arizona Market in […]
Bread&Games, Plant&Play
Participatory project in public space and at the Tate Gallery Liverpool (2004) Commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial, UK Bread and Games, Plant and Play investigates the interaction of formal and informal systems in the process of urban revitalization. It is meant to provoke a set of questions to which the community would find their own […]
Lost Highway Expedition [LHE]
Artistic journey across nine cities in the Western Balkans (2006) Collaborative participatory art and curatorial project The Lost Highway Expedition is a journey to explore the unknown future of Europe. In August 2006, over 200 artists, activists, and cultural workers embarked on a month-long joint travel along the federal highway formerly known as the Highway […]
Tempelmarke [Temple Tag]
Wearable device (2010) Commissioned by the Jewish Museum of Vienna, AT Co-authored with Dietmar Offenhuber Commissioned for the exhibition The Turks in Vienna at the Jewish Museum Vienna, the project Tempelmarke [Temple Tag] explores possibilities of activating history through the embodiment of memory. The exhibition explored the history of the Sephardic Jewish community of Vienna […]