SOHO IN OTTAKRING: What’s up? Was ist hier los?

This publication gives the reader an exemplary overview of the forces and dynamics that have acted on and against the SOHO IN OTTAKRING project over the years of continuous work on it. It is practice in particular which is often confronted with situations and conditions that demand a special degree of flexibility, study and reflection, as well as (physical) effort. SOHO IN OTTAKRING is ‘Work in Progress‘, hence it is not a static concept, and many questions remain unanswered today. Thus the question in 2008, the 10th year of the SOHO IN OTTAKRING art project, is: “What is really going on?“ This question leads to other questions: what role can artists play in complex urban structures such as the Brunnenviertel area of Vienna‘s 16th district? What interventions are possible? Where are the limits?
The authors of this publication address a broad spectrum of themes that are especially important to us as the publishers and editors of this book after asking ourselves: what went on here over the last ten years? We hope the various different perspectives and the variety of sample projects will be an interesting contribution – particularly in relation to practice – to the international discourse.