Buchpräsentation Stop and Go

Book presentation and discussion

Academy of Fine Arts | Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Forum 1.17A | IKA

Stop and Go. Nodes of Transformation and Transition was a research project by architect and artist Michael Hieslmair and cultural historian Michael Zinganel from Vienna in collaboration with geographer Tarmo Pikner from Tallinn and historian and anthropologist Emiliya Karaboeva from Sofia. The project was hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and funded by the 2013 WWTF call Public Spaces in Transition.

This book presents several trans-disciplinary case studies in the geographical triangle between Vienna, Tallinn and Helsinki and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Each contribution investigates how differently the networks and temporary habitats of highly mobile actors along these road corridors – both in the posturban intermediate zones and in the city centers – have undergone and continue to undergo significant changes before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the enlargement of the EU, and the re-expansion of transport infrastructure.

With contributions by Johanna Kandl, Emiliya Karaboeva, Sonia Leimer, Juan Moreno, Katarzyna Osiecka, Tarmo Pikner, Tatjana Vukosavljević, Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel

Welcoming words:
Ingeborg Erhart, Vice Rector for Arts and Teaching
Andreas Spiegl, Institute for Art History and Cultural Studies
Michael Strassnig, Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF)

Moderation:
Angelika Schnell, Institute for Art and Architecture

Performative lecture:
Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel, Tracing Spaces, co-editors, authors

Respondent:
Regina Bittner, Bauhaus Dessau, Bauhaus Dessau