Video by Milos Vucicevic
SIDEWALK POEMS
Museum for the Displaced (Mf D) & Frame Colectivo
Participatory action in public space
Schedule:
21-22.01 - 2 PM
We want poetry to enter everyday life, to change what it can, to stay for a while, to stay with us, in all situations. This is the proposal of Sidewalk Poems. Mf D would like to invite residents of the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna to record themselves reading a poem, a prayer, a text, or singing a song that has helped them feel rooted. Words that have the power to soothe the negative feelings that can come from the experience of displacement. Comfort that comes through language, in any language. We will then bring everything together, as a long stream of melodies about rootedness and a sense of home. The architecture studio Frame Colectivo is responsible for the spatial installation of this sound piece in Mexikoplatz.
About the artists
The Museum for the Displaced (Mf D), founded in 2019, collaborates with artists and researchers who are displaced or working within the topic of displacement through commissions, exhibitions, events, and publications. Mf D’s mission is to make space for a multitude of such stories, contextualise these narratives, and weave a larger picture. Through this live archive, Mf D aims at raising awareness and igniting conversations about displacement in as many places as possible, joining broader movements towards more equality, freedom, and social and environmental justice. Mf D has organised Residency: Cultivating Living Relationships (2022), Listening Room: Seats in the Abandoned Theatre (2021), and Assembly: Chronicles of Displacement (2020). Propelled by Mohammad Golabi (Iran/USA), Leong Min Yu Samantha (Singapore) and Ana Sophie Salazar (Ecuador/Portugal).
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Frame Colectivo is a Lisbon-based architecture studio founded by Gabriela Salhe and Agapi Dimitriadou in 2012. Their urban research and practice includes installations, activations, exhibition design, scenography, multimedia works, and publications, merging inventive experimentation with space theory. They have developed research focused on public and semi-public open spaces, defining a critical stance on the built environment, and conceptualising and implementing projects that are situated, formally disruptive, and socially engaged, while developing tools for public participation in place-building and decision-making processes. Under the alias Urban Editions, they publish books and games that result from and accompany the work, gathering people around social and environmental concerns in architecture and urbanism. In 2019, they published [TASCAS], where thirty authors pay tribute to the tasca, a popular and affordable restaurant typology in Portugal.
Part of An(other)South+, in cooperation with Oscar Cueto
Supported by :
Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport