research and writings by_ Peter Mörtenböck_ and_ Helge Mooshammer_ on art, architecture and politics
RESEARCH
OTHER MARKETS
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Mapping typologies and conditions of informality:
How informal markets intersect with global governance
NETWORKED CULTURES
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The struggle for new forms of artistic practice in an era of global deregulation
SUPPLY LINES
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An ecological view on resource politics
SEA OF MARBLE
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Looking out to the sea: A navigational convergence on the imaginary and the realities of the sea
EXHIBITIONS
Networked Cultures -
documentary
Gunners & Runners
Trading Places
Networked Cultures
Gone City
Temporary Zones
Operation Desert
You'll Never Walk Alone
Our joint research is concerned with changing forms of urban sociality, processes of transnationalisation and newly emerging regimes of governance.
Most recently, we have been working on the interrelationship between the spatial conditions of contemporary protest movements and the increasing virtualisation of today’s economic and political values - see our new publication Occupy: Räume des Protests.
In our ongoing research project Other Markets we focus on the socio-spatial production of informal markets as paradigmatic sites of 21st century urban transformation. A realm of negotiation between multiple political demands, social actors and environmental constraints, informal marketplaces provide valuable lessons for the challenges of future co-existence.
To this end, we are organising a series of international research platforms, with the next one being held at Hong Kong University’s Shanghai Study Centre in November 2012. Collaborators in these platforms include, amongst others, Teddy Cruz, Ananya Roy, Hou Hanru, Lawrence Liang, AbdouMaliq Simone and MAP Office, with the research culminating in an atlas and text book on ‘Informal Market Worlds’, published by nai010 publishers in 2013.
Other current projects include Supply Lines, an international media, art and research platform that investigates contemporary resource ecologies, and for which we have edited a collaborative piece for the forthcoming special issue of Third Text on ‘Art and the Politics of Ecology' (#120, December 2012, ed. by TJ Demos).
October this year will also see the publication of the volume ‘Zwischen Architektur und Psychoanalyse: Sexualität, Phantasmen, Körper’ (edited by Insa Härtel, Olaf Knellessen and Helge Mooshammer) with contributions by, amongst others, Jane Rendell and Doina Petrescu.
We both teach architecture and visual culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London and at Vienna University of Technology, where Peter is Professor of Visual Culture.
Goldsmiths, Department of Visual Cultures
BOOKS
OCCUPY:
Räume des Protests
more TEXTS
Space (Re)Solutions:
Intervention and Research in Visual Culture
Netzwerk Kultur:
Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt
Zwischen Architektur und Psychoanalyse
Networked Cultures:
Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
Cruising:
Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures
Visuelle Kultur:
körper, räume, medien
Die virtuelle Dimension:
Architektur, Subjektivität und Cyberspace
