| Martha Rosler reports of iron teeth installed in the ground of house entrances in the Bowery that should spoil sleeping comfort for the homeless. At the Viennese Karlsplatz park banks are subdivided through armrests into single seats to prevent people from lying down. By the means of many similar, more or less subtle strategies, social segregation is pushed through. (...) In these days, the new Austrian state apparatus follows ideological more than economic paradigms and protects government buildings and right-wing party headquarters with barricades and water cannons against the new "civil society".(...) Andreas Fogarasi 2.00 |