Supersuit Poetic Interventions in Urban Spaces

• Other Authors: Aschwanden, Daniel (Editor), Wallraff, Michael 1968- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Basel Birkhäuser, 2017
• Series: Edition Die Angewandte, University Press.
• Subjects: Performance art > Austria > Vienna.
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• Physical Description: 112 pages illustrations (chiefly colour) 24 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9783035612059

The increasing accumulation of people in living machines without history and the challenges presented by migration and the lack of space provoke a need for new thinking and acting in public spaces. SUPERSUIT is an interdisciplinary experiment at the demarcation between people and space. It is a tool for poetic interventions in a range of different urban situations that invites participation and queries the relationship between people, space and city in terms of sense perception. As a marker of public space, the spontaneously arising forms of SUPERSUIT respond directly to the parameters of urban context. Using the means of ?performative interventions? SUPERSUIT facilitates a change in current design processes and the conceptualizing of new people/material constellations.