CARGO VIENNA is a project about changing working and living spaces of Viennese urban and logistics landscapes. On the occasion of the final decommissioning of freight handling at Vienna's Nordwestbahnhof, the city's last inner-city logistics hub, Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel (Tracing Spaces) investigate the socio-spatial displacement of infrastructure facilities, company branches and employees.
With the help of former users of the area as well as experts on everyday logistics and "artistic memory techniques", Tracing Spaces seeks out abandoned working worlds in order to remember and say goodbye together.
In an open-air exhibition at the now vacant truck gas station of the Nordwestbahnhof, remnants remaining on the site are brought together and condensed into a kind of mini hub, a "memory sculpture".
At the same time, connections will be made to the new corporate offices on the city's periphery: From June 16, performative bus excursions will start from the gas station to the current locations of the companies "evicted" from the site. Artistic markers will also be placed at the new locations, thus creating an invisible network through the city.
Location
Nordwestbahnstraße 16, 1200 Wien
Gallery
Further Information
Tracing Spaces
Michael Hieslmair *1974 in Linz (A), lives in Vienna (A)
Michael Zinganel *1960 in Bad Radkersburg (A), lives in Vienna (A)
with
Theresa Hattinger *1989 in Salzburg (A), lives in Vienna (A)
Christopher Mavric *1985 in Bruck a.d. Mur (A), lives in Vienna and Graz (A)
Time Period
from June 2 until November 2023
Education - Events
- Kick-off Friday, June 2, 2023
- performative bus excursion #1 Friday, June 16, 2023 / from 02:00 PM to 07:00 PM
- Inauguration of the Relikt-Assemblagen Saturday, June 24, 2023 / at 05:00 PM
- performative bus excursion #2 Friday, September 8, 2023 / from 02:00 PM to 06:30 PM
- performative bus excursion #3 Friday, September 15, 2023 / from 02:00 PM to 06:30 PM
- performative bus excursion #4 Friday, October 13, 2023 / from 02:00 PM to 06:30 PM
- Urban Interventions Saturday, October 14, 2023 / from 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
- performative bus excursion #5 Friday, October 20, 2023 / from 02:00 PM to 06:30 PM