WIEN 1991

The idea for WIEN 1991 came from a reading of Roland Barthes Mythologies. Barthes analysed French society in the year of 1957 by taking a closer look upon the common things of life: the automobil [in his case the brand-new Citroen DS19], hairstyling, cinema, plastic as the decades favourite material asf.

Barthes suggested to walk the streets of ones home town instead of going to the Louvre if one wanted valid information about contemporary culture. We picked up Barthes' intention and pasted it into the Vienna of 1991, when we conducted our research on daily culture. Not in the form of verbal analysis, but rather as an audio-visual investigation. The sounds and sights of a capital have been manipulated on the computer to achieve a compact form. Finally 12 large transparent images together with some 30 minutes of audio-clips were exhibited in a container based architecture for a large public.