WALTZ FOR AN ABANDONED BUILDING
Sitespecific videointervention with a composition of MARCOS RONDON
after Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch
HD 16:9, b/w, 5'15''
PARALLEL VIENNA 2017, 19 – 24 September 2017
Alte Sigmund Freud Universität
Schnirchgasse 9A, 1030 Vienna
GALLERY STATEMENT – bäckerstrasse 4– plattform für junge kunst, room 601, 6th floor
Alte Sigmund Freud Universität
www.baeckerstrasse4.at

For the vacant Old Sigmund Freud University in the 3rd district of Vienna Sissa Micheli conceptualised a sitespeific videointervention. With recordings of the interior and exterior of the building and surroundings the artist not only documents a part of the current cityscape but also addresses the cityspecific issue of housing construction and city expansion. Luxury real estate meets vacancy, demolition architecture meets protection of historical buildings. Horizontal and vertical tracking shots on photo-and filmreflectors show the architectural details of an immidiate touchable city under construction.
The choreography of the images is accompanied by Walzer Nr. 2 of Schostakowitsch, which was specifically newly arranged by the sound artist Marcos Rondon. The noise of the sourroundings was recorded accustically and lets vibrate the space and its spectators as a resonant body of current change.

 
Credits: Benedikt Kofler, Elise Accarain, Lara Waechter, Marcos Rondon, Anja Kessler, Simon Kessler