02 & 03 July 2021 Wandertag, Frauen-Werk-Stadt I, 21. Bezirk
For Wandertag, curated by Nora Mayr, Anna Witt brings her video work “Hautfront” to Vienna for the first time. The film will be projected onto the façade of the housing project Frauen-Werk-Stadt I also known as Margarete-Schütte-Lihotzky-Hof. The projection leads visitors to the largest example of housing and urban development that concentrates on the needsof women in Europe. Planned and realized by the architects Franziska Ullmann, Gisela Podreka, Elsa Prochazka and Liselotte Peretti, this building structure specifically takes into account the everyday patterns of women. The building’s structure aims to facilitate domestic and family work and promote neighborly contacts. A living environment in which women feel comfortable and can be out and about safely in the evenings is considered an important goal of housing designed for women.
“Hautfront” was created during the first lockdown in spring 2020 in a collaborative process with women of different ages from Feldbach in Styria, Austria. For this project, a discussion group was formed that met online to unite in a situation of general retreat into the private sphere. Subversiveness and resistance became central concepts to address the impact of the pandemic and the resulting crisis for women.
In addition to the film screenings, two dialogic guided tours by cultural mediator Petra Unger, Wiener FrauenSpaziergänge (female walks Vienna), offer an in-depth look at the history of Frauen-Werk-Stadt I.
Wandertag project invites visitors to break out of their patterns of movement, change their usual pace of being in the city, and experience art and neighborhoods in a new way.
Each Wandertag leads to a location selected by the curator Nora Mayr and the artists Julischka Stengele, Lukas Thaler, Marianne Vlaschits and Anna Witt. Whether an industrial area, the shop window of a car dealer, a house facade or a public observatory – each location offers a new approach to the artistic practice of the invited artists as well as unusual views of Vienna.
