In her internationally renowned research projects about waste, Berlin-based architect Bettina Vismann managed to map global topographies of urban spaces which reveal how locally grown cultural practices are shaped or defined by economic principles. On the site of A Future Archeology, Vismann and participants design research practices and methodologies that deal with issues of territory and the distribution of space within social communities. Including international guests from the fields of choreography, architecture, fine arts, performance and theory, this project, embedded in A Future Archeology, invites to develop protocols and practices for a space of sharing.
A construction lot in Vienna during ImPulsTanz 2013. During four weeks, Egyptian and European artists from the fields of choreography, architecture, and dramaturgy construct habitats, huts, or houses: they invite festival participants, guests and passers-by to build spaces of difference, sites for practices and questions of exchange, (cultural) difference, collaboration, and artistic process. The community on test-run amalgamates discursive, social and artistic approaches with strategies of doing and togetherness, aiming at politics of and for diversity. The title A Future Archeology assumes that given (social) structures are to be excavated in order to comprehend their constructedness. Refering to the experience of the current social and political crisis in Egypt and Europe, Silke Bake, Ismail Fayed, Adham Hafez, and Peter Stamer initiated the international project A Future Archeology to embrace the needs and potentials for difference. Taking place in Berlin, Vienna, and Cairo, the international group develops each construction site according to the given urban contexts and actual needs for space.
Focusing on specific questions stemming from the objectives of A Future Archeology, four embedded Research Projects create test fields both shaping and influenced by the building process and its stakes.
With: Silke Bake, Igor Dobricic, Ismail Fayed, Adham Hafez, Peter Stamer, Christine Standfest, Bettina Vismann and guests.
