And things happen

Matilde Igual Capdevila

2015, room installation

first proposition
Science finds its limits when dealing with an object which cannot be comprehended within one single discipline.
The urban question is such an object. Cities do offer “a problem in handling organized complexity”
Even the description of a square and the understanding of its functioning, a simple task, a point of detail, is connected to so many fields of knowledge that it is impossible to carry out.
The parts of the research lack connections and something is missing. What could it be?

second proposition
Stories and sketches, immediate representations of the square. A collection of obsessive field work attempting to grasp the everyday, the unnoticed, the nothings.
Some inventions, fictions to fill the gaps of observation.
Inviting a few dead authors, mostly french, mostly Marxist, to discuss the city, the urban, the everyday, alienation and squares.

third proposition
An installation transposing the square somewhere else. A work in abstraction, reduction and translation.
A permanent construction site of elements constantly re-arranged.


0º. preamble
    obsession
    previous projects

0. introduction
    program for the project
    the structure of the text
    fact, fiction, literature

1. squares

    what is a square?

    how does it relate to the urban?
        are squares useless?
        exchange value/use value
        public space and consumption
        revolts and feasts
        occupying the squares

    regarding Kolonitzplatz
        materials & animals
        a tale of two squares
        a letter describing Kolonitzplatz as a friend to a friend


2. borders

    what is a border?
        physical borders
        functional borders
        spontaneous segregation

    how does it relate to the urban?

    regarding Kolonitzplatz
        elements
        schedules
        the story of the ice-cream shop
        the story of Sinan and his friends

3. the everyday

    what is the everyday life?

    how does it relate to the urban?
        time and space
        nothing
        what happens when nothing happens
        the everyday, doing nothing and how to be an expert of the everyday
        the square, doing nothing and the everyday
        hopeful/ no ambitions

    regarding Kolonitzplatz
        lost woman, lost cat, lost bag
        some notes at the beginning of the project
        17:10- 17:30 / 23.10.2015
        29.10.2015
        Kolonitzplatz at 7 during a snowstorm. A report from a friend.

4. authors in conversation

    Georges Pérec
    Henri Lefèbvre
    Michel de Certeau
    Jane Jacobs

5. conclusions

    doing something or doing nothing? doing nothing to do something afterwards?
    list of ideas for the kolonitzplatz

6. and things happen (epilogue)

    from hanging out to installing
    transforming elements. sketches for an installation

7. references

    references (names as i can remember of people who might have had an influence on this project)
    classes attended in the last three years (relevant to the work)
    
a last quote


Als Erkundung einer städtischen Umgebung wendet das Projekt verschiedene Methoden von Disziplinen an, die sich ausdru?cklich auf Urbanität beziehen oder beziehen lassen. Der Raum der Studie ist der Wiener Kolonitzplatz im 3. Bezirk. Das Projekt beschäftigt sich mit der alltäglichen Lebenswelt dieses eher anonymen städtischen Platzes.

Fragen der Repräsentation:
Wie kann öffentlicher Raum repräsentiert werden? Was bleibt kategorial zu bennen und repräsentativ zu zeigen, wo die Summe öffentlicher Ausstattungen wie Sitzgelegenheiten, Bäume, Gehsteige usw. abstrahiert sind? Eine unbestimmte Oberfläche? Die Aktivität der Benutzer? Eine
Leerstelle zwischen Gebäude?

Die Untersuchung kombiniert Archivarbeit, Feldforschung, Kurzgeschichten, verschriftlichte und gezeichnete Berichte unterschiedlicher Momente des Platzes sowie eine Rauminstallation.

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Diploma Exhibition
Universität fu?r Angewandte Kunst Wien, 1010 Wien
Aula
18 Jänner

 

Diploma Commission:

o. Univ.-Prof. Mag. rer. Nat. Dr. techn. Georg Glaeser

Sen.Lect. Dr. Bernd Kräftner

Univ.-Prof. Mag. art. Ruth Schnell

VAss. Mag. art. Nita Tandon

Prof. Virgil Widrich