21 to 22 January 2023
Commissioned by An(other)South+
In collaboration with Frame Colectivo and Oscar Cueto in Mexikoplatz, Vienna
We want poetry to enter everyday life, to change what it can, to stay for a while, to stay with us, in all situations. This is the proposal of Sidewalk Poems. Mf D would like to invite residents of the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna to record themselves reading a poem, a prayer, a text, or singing a song that has helped them feel rooted. Words that have the power to soothe the negative feelings that can come from the experience of displacement. Comfort that comes through language, in any language. We will then bring everything together, as a long stream of melodies about rootedness and a sense of home. The architecture studio Frame Colectivo is responsible for the spatial installation of this sound piece in Mexikoplatz.
Biographies
is a festival that promotes narratives that contain many narratives. Therefore, the selected artists (Aleyda Rocha, Bárbara Palomino, Roberta Lazo Valenzuela, Museum for the Displaced & Frame Colectivo) will try to deconstruct experiences in order to change the perspective in which history is told.
is a Lisbon-based architecture studio founded by Gabriela Salhe and Agapi Dimitriadou in 2012. Their urban research and practice includes installations, activations, exhibition design, scenography, multimedia works, and publications, merging inventive experimentation with space theory. They have developed research focused on public and semi-public open spaces, defining a critical stance on the built environment, and conceptualising and implementing projects that are situated, formally disruptive, and socially engaged, while developing tools for public participation in place-building and decision-making processes. Under the alias Urban Editions, they publish books and games that result from and accompany the work, gathering people around social and environmental concerns in architecture and urbanism. In 2019, they published [TASCAS], where thirty authors pay tribute to the tasca, a popular and affordable restaurant typology in Portugal.