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

1. 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

1. 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.

1. authors in conversation

Georges Pérec
Henri Lefèbvre
Michel de Certeau
Jane Jacobs

1. conclusions

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

1. and things happen (epilogue)

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

1. 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 2016

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

Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich