Stracing Spaces: Stop and Go - exhibition at OC Dornych
The space for engaged architecture, a project of the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology, will open on November 24 a gallery exhibition by the Austrian collective Tracing Spaces “Stop and Go. Nodes of Transformation and Transition”. The exhibition will run from November 25, 2022, to January 22, 2023, in the warehouse space of the legendary department store Prior (TESCO, now OC Dornych). The exhibition will launch a series of events and happenings that will revitalize the significant building of Brno's brutalism before its planned demolition in 2023.
The research project Stop and Go, led by curator and artist Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmair, explored postsocialist changes at nodes of transnational mobility and migration along pan-European transport corridors in a triangle formed by Vienna, Tallinn, and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. These three case studies are presented primarily in the form of large-scale diagrams and abstract maps of routes, networks, and urban archipelagos along international paths traversed by the research team in their Ford Transit van. Also on display at Prior will be objects that the curators brought from their "field" research trips. The exhibition will also feature partially documentary video works by other artists in the form of large-format projections.
“The term Pan-European transport corridors denotes transport connections between the former Eastern and Western European countries. Their expansion is one of the main projects of EU infrastructure planning: Road transport corridors represent monuments of modernization of states and the associations of states that are planned, built, and expanded under political and economic pressure (and counter-pressure from ecological arguments). However, they also represent a reservoir of imagination upon which numerous dreams (and nightmares) of individuals and institutions can focus. Corridors function as magnets, attracting things and individuals that move along them and align with them. These experiences are recorded in the official statistics of control bodies, in mass media news, in the everyday stories of users and surrounding residents, in research reports, and in works of art. Locations where the flow of traffic is interrupted – bus terminals, logistics centers, highway rest areas, markets, or border crossings – are remarkable in that they allow us to read the control strategies of (trans)national organizations and large enterprises, and the motivations and biographies of actors on the move. From this process emerges a dynamic model of urbanity, connected archipelagos, some of which are transformed from non-places into intimate waypoints by the everyday routine of the multi-local existence of actors,” say the curators from the collective Tracing Spaces about the project.
The exhibition will include, for example, a work by Boris Despodov – the document Corridor No. 8, which discusses the ambitious yet never realized project of building a road from the Black Sea coast to Albania; the history of the international bus station in Vienna (from which the busiest route to Serbia operates); the video by Želimir Žilnik showcasing the fates of refugees who arrived from North Africa, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan before the refugee crisis in 2015 and became stranded in Serbia; the rhythms of the ferry terminal in Tallinn and its connection to Helsinki, defining the character of the entire sea port; or the video Forgotten Space by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, which allows us to glimpse container shipping traversing the world’s oceans.
The Tracing Spaces collective was founded in 2012 by Viennese historians, architects, artists, and curators Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel in Vienna. As an independent interdisciplinary research platform, they conceive and create projects, exhibitions, publications, and other formats on the topics of cities, mobility, tourism, and migration, as well as artistic projects based on artistic research. Since the summer of 2015, they have operated a space at Vienna’s Nordwestbahnhof, one of the last logistical nodes in the inner city, where a multifaceted multimedia cartography of migration and mobile experiences of actors working here is gradually emerging, nestled within the social environment of the logistics landscape.
The opening on Thursday, November 24, at 6:00 PM will also feature a presentation by the exhibition curators. As part of the accompanying program, there will be a discussion with Czech authors of the project Steel Cities about the architecture of logistics in Central and Eastern Europe, film screenings, and guided tours of the former Prior building with architecture theorist Šárka Svobodová and architect Eva Truncová. The department store, built between 1980 and 1984 according to the designs of architects Zdeněk Řihák and Zdeněk Sklepka, was the most modern shopping center in Moravia at its time. Its demolition is planned for 2023, and in its place, a complex of six buildings with offices, shops, and rental apartments will be constructed.
Curatorial team: Michael Hieslmair | Michael Zinganel
With exhibits by: Noël Burch | Boris Despodov | Thomas Grabka | Martin Grabner | Michael Hieslmair | Emiliya Karaboeva | Mindaugas Kavaliauskas | Matthias Klos | Vesselina Nikolaeva | Katarzyna Osiecka | Zara Pfeifer | Tarmo Pikner | Maximilian Pramatarov | Rimini Protokoll | SO MAT-Archive | Allan Sekula | Gabriele Sturm | Las Vegas Studio | Tatjana Vukosavljević | Želimir Žilnik | Michael Zinganel
The research project Stop and Go was led by Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmair in collaboration with human geographer Tarmo Pikner from Tallinn and anthropologist and historian Emiliya Karaboeva from Sofia. The project was funded by the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF). The Brno exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture of VUT, under the patronage of the Mayor of Brno, JUDr. Markéta Vaňková, and with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, the State Culture Fund, the statutory city of Brno, and the Czech Chamber of Architecture.
Production: Karolína Plášková | Viola Rösch | Ruslan Dimov | Daniel Bemberger | Eva Truncová
Graphic design: Pavel Holomek
Translations: Moudrý překlad
Organizational assistance: Lucie Zádrapová | Adéla Šoborová
Consultation: Jan Kristek
The research project Stop and Go, led by curator and artist Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmair, explored postsocialist changes at nodes of transnational mobility and migration along pan-European transport corridors in a triangle formed by Vienna, Tallinn, and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. These three case studies are presented primarily in the form of large-scale diagrams and abstract maps of routes, networks, and urban archipelagos along international paths traversed by the research team in their Ford Transit van. Also on display at Prior will be objects that the curators brought from their "field" research trips. The exhibition will also feature partially documentary video works by other artists in the form of large-format projections.
“The term Pan-European transport corridors denotes transport connections between the former Eastern and Western European countries. Their expansion is one of the main projects of EU infrastructure planning: Road transport corridors represent monuments of modernization of states and the associations of states that are planned, built, and expanded under political and economic pressure (and counter-pressure from ecological arguments). However, they also represent a reservoir of imagination upon which numerous dreams (and nightmares) of individuals and institutions can focus. Corridors function as magnets, attracting things and individuals that move along them and align with them. These experiences are recorded in the official statistics of control bodies, in mass media news, in the everyday stories of users and surrounding residents, in research reports, and in works of art. Locations where the flow of traffic is interrupted – bus terminals, logistics centers, highway rest areas, markets, or border crossings – are remarkable in that they allow us to read the control strategies of (trans)national organizations and large enterprises, and the motivations and biographies of actors on the move. From this process emerges a dynamic model of urbanity, connected archipelagos, some of which are transformed from non-places into intimate waypoints by the everyday routine of the multi-local existence of actors,” say the curators from the collective Tracing Spaces about the project.
The exhibition will include, for example, a work by Boris Despodov – the document Corridor No. 8, which discusses the ambitious yet never realized project of building a road from the Black Sea coast to Albania; the history of the international bus station in Vienna (from which the busiest route to Serbia operates); the video by Želimir Žilnik showcasing the fates of refugees who arrived from North Africa, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan before the refugee crisis in 2015 and became stranded in Serbia; the rhythms of the ferry terminal in Tallinn and its connection to Helsinki, defining the character of the entire sea port; or the video Forgotten Space by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, which allows us to glimpse container shipping traversing the world’s oceans.
The Tracing Spaces collective was founded in 2012 by Viennese historians, architects, artists, and curators Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel in Vienna. As an independent interdisciplinary research platform, they conceive and create projects, exhibitions, publications, and other formats on the topics of cities, mobility, tourism, and migration, as well as artistic projects based on artistic research. Since the summer of 2015, they have operated a space at Vienna’s Nordwestbahnhof, one of the last logistical nodes in the inner city, where a multifaceted multimedia cartography of migration and mobile experiences of actors working here is gradually emerging, nestled within the social environment of the logistics landscape.
The opening on Thursday, November 24, at 6:00 PM will also feature a presentation by the exhibition curators. As part of the accompanying program, there will be a discussion with Czech authors of the project Steel Cities about the architecture of logistics in Central and Eastern Europe, film screenings, and guided tours of the former Prior building with architecture theorist Šárka Svobodová and architect Eva Truncová. The department store, built between 1980 and 1984 according to the designs of architects Zdeněk Řihák and Zdeněk Sklepka, was the most modern shopping center in Moravia at its time. Its demolition is planned for 2023, and in its place, a complex of six buildings with offices, shops, and rental apartments will be constructed.
Curatorial team: Michael Hieslmair | Michael Zinganel
With exhibits by: Noël Burch | Boris Despodov | Thomas Grabka | Martin Grabner | Michael Hieslmair | Emiliya Karaboeva | Mindaugas Kavaliauskas | Matthias Klos | Vesselina Nikolaeva | Katarzyna Osiecka | Zara Pfeifer | Tarmo Pikner | Maximilian Pramatarov | Rimini Protokoll | SO MAT-Archive | Allan Sekula | Gabriele Sturm | Las Vegas Studio | Tatjana Vukosavljević | Želimir Žilnik | Michael Zinganel
The research project Stop and Go was led by Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmair in collaboration with human geographer Tarmo Pikner from Tallinn and anthropologist and historian Emiliya Karaboeva from Sofia. The project was funded by the Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF). The Brno exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture of VUT, under the patronage of the Mayor of Brno, JUDr. Markéta Vaňková, and with financial support from the Ministry of Culture, the State Culture Fund, the statutory city of Brno, and the Czech Chamber of Architecture.
Production: Karolína Plášková | Viola Rösch | Ruslan Dimov | Daniel Bemberger | Eva Truncová
Graphic design: Pavel Holomek
Translations: Moudrý překlad
Organizational assistance: Lucie Zádrapová | Adéla Šoborová
Consultation: Jan Kristek
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