The second event in this year’s Tuesday@Secession series features a performative installation by Michael Zinganel and Michael Hieslmair (Tracing Spaces) and Gabriele Sturm.

Michael Zinganel & Michael Hieslmair (Tracing Spaces) & Gabriele Sturm

CARGO VIENNA

On the occasion of the final closure of freight handling at Vienna's Nordwestbahnhof in 2022 - 150 years after its opening - the project by Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel (Tracing Spaces) addresses the socio-spatial displacement of the company branches and their employees, who have helped shape the city's metabolism and everyday working life at Vienna's Nordwestbahnhof in recent decades, to the new logistics archipelagos on the periphery of the city and far beyond. 

The former ÖBB bus and truck service station next to the Museum Nordwestbahnhof was reinterpreted as a museum and transformed into a temporary sculptural collection of signaling systems, signs and other physical relics. These were dismantled, collected and secured by Tracing Spaces in the former logistics world of the Nordwestbahnhof with the intention of reinstalling them in the new urban development area that will be created here in the coming years as a sculpture park to commemorate the history of the area's use. 

A selection of these relics will be presented on mobile platforms in the courtyard of the Secession, forming the set for a discussion about the methods and aims of the medium-term project and for the concluding live concert.

Live Jazz & World Music by
NEMEKOU
Julia Siedl (AUT) - Keyboards, Vocals
Cheikh Ndao (SEN) - Bass, Percussion, Vocals
Gustavo Ovalles (VEN) – Percussion