Christian Berkes und Sophie Wohlgemuth

The approach of the project "The Fantasies of the Architecture Library" is to focus on the Walter Zschokke Library in the Kunstquartier Krems and to use it as a source of inspiration, to activate it and, in the spirit of its namesake, to make it a starting point for architectural mediation and social exchange. In order to be able to do justice to this approach, one needs (curatorial) knowledge in dealing with books and stores of knowledge, a distinctive architectural-urbanistic perspective, experience in the development of public, participatory formats as well as the formal independence to creatively link different topics and requirements. Christian Berkes and Sophie Wohlgemuth bring this knowledge, perspective, experience as well as independence from their artistic-publicistic work with botopress (platform for architectures, cities, technologies and fictions).

Parallel engagements and experiences of the two (e.g., in the technofeminist art and research collective purplenoise or from the groups Drucken Heften Laden or the city and the political) also inform the project. The residency also marks the 10th anniversary of botopress in 2023, enabling the international, socio-spatial transmission of our basic principles: Discursivity, Plurality, Speed, Processuality, Multimediality and Cooperation.

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