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Under Construction: Normalization takes Command

by Elke Krasny, published 25. September 2014
in “Common – Journal für Kunst & Öffentlichkeit”
Nummer 04, 2014 – KUNST – STADT – NORMALITÄT
Ästhetische Verfahren und die Produktion des Normalen

Vienna’s Karlsplatz has been under construction for decades and it remains to be seen if it will ever be finished. The most important aspect of this continuous making and remaking of the large and centrally located square is that it clearly demonstrates the dynamics of urban contemporaneity. Karlsplatz tells a rich and conflicted history that is written in the language of architecture and urbanism. From the 1960s onwards, art, in the broadest sense of the word, has become part of how the production of urban contemporaneity, and its normalization, played out on Karlsplatz, both on its surface and in the underground. … READ MORE

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