Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer
research and writings on art, architecture and politics


RESEARCH


DATA PUBLICS
-
Public plurality in an era
of data determinacy




OTHER MARKETS
--
Mapping typologies and conditions of informality:
How informal markets intersect with global governance



NETWORKED CULTURES
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The struggle for new forms of artistic practice in an era of global deregulation



WORLD OF MATTER
--
An ecological view on resource politics



SEA OF MARBLE
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Looking out to the sea: A navigational convergence on the imaginary and the realities of the sea




EXHIBITIONS


La Biennale di Venezia - 17th International Architecture Exhibition 2021

XX Architecture and Urbanism Biennial - Chile 2017

Ephemeral Urbanism

World of Matter
@ HMKV Dortmund
@ James Gallery New York
@ Ellen Gallery Montreal
@ Nash Gallery Minnesota

Networked Cultures -
documentary

Gunners & Runners

Trading Places

Networked Cultures

Gone City

Temporary Zones

Operation Desert

You'll Never Walk Alone




PUBLICATIONS

links & downloads


Monographs and edited volumes

Building Capital: Urban Speculation and the Architecture of Finance.
Forthcoming.

IN/FORMAL Marketplaces: Experiments with Urban Reconfiguration (eds.). Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2023.

Platform Urbanism and Its Discontents (eds.). Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2021.

Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, 2020.

Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016.

Visual Cultures as Opportunity. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016.

Erinnerungsorte in Bewegung, (ed. with Daniela Allmeier, Ingrid Manka und Rudolf Scheuvens). Bielefeld: transcript, 2016.

Informal Market Worlds - Reader, (ed. with Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman). Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2015.

Informal Market Worlds - Atlas, (eds.). Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2015.

Zwischen Architektur und Psychoanalyse: Sexualität, Phantasmen, Körper, (ed. with Insa Härtel and Olaf Knellessen). Zurich: Park Books, 2012.

Occupy: Räume des Protests. Bielefeld: transcript, 2012.

Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture, (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript, 2011.

Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt. Bielefeld: transcript publishers, 2010.

Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space, (eds.). Rotterdam: NAi publishers, 2008.

Cruising – Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2005.

Visuelle Kultur: Körper – Räume – Medien, (eds.). Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2003.

Die virtuelle Dimension. Architektur, Subjektivität und Cyberspace
. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2001.


Chapters in books

'La sfida delle piattaforme. E come vincerla attraverso una cultura della conversazione', in Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (ed.), Broken Cities 2022. Milan: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, 2022.

'Plattform-Urbanismus', in Bianca Anna Böckle, Celina Martinez-Cañavate and Peter A. Staub (eds.): Beyond the Biennale: Diskurse zur kulturellen Wirkung der Internationalen Architektur-Biennale in Venedig. Zurich: Triest Verlag, 2022.

'Plattform (Platform)', in Jochen Becker, Anna Schäffler, Simon Sheikh (eds.): Glossar Urbane Praxis - Auf dem Weg zu einem Manifest (Glossary Urban Praxis - Towards a Manifesto). Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, 2021.

'Right to the City, Right to the Market: The Global Struggle of Informal Marketplaces', in Andrea Maurer (ed.): Handbook of Economic Sociology for the 21st Century - New Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Studies and Developments. Cham: Springer Nature, 2021.

'Hospiz und Lager. Städtische Spuren des Ersten Weltkriegs am Beispiel der Schleierbaracken in Wien X.', in Máté Tamáska and Barbara Rief-Vernay (eds.): Wien - Budapest. Stadträume des 20. Jahrhunderts im Vergleich. Vienna: Praesens, 2020.

'City as Interface: Self-generating urban environments and the question of labour', in Goethe Insititute Prague (ed.): Sharing Cities Atlas. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, 2019.

'
Resource Frontiers', in Karen Lutsky, Ozayr Saloojee and Emila Eliza Scott (eds.): Viscosity: Mobilizing Materiliaties. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

'The Art of Crafting Formal-Informal Linkages', in Eveline Dürr and Juliane Müller (eds.): The Political and Cultural Economy of Popular Commerce: Gender, Inequality, and Materiality in Latin American Cities. Lexington Books, 2019.

'Other Markets: The Global Struggle of Informal Trading Places', in Andres Lepik, Marcelo della Giustina and Chiara Ursini (eds.): Does Permanence Matter? Ephemeral Urbanism. Munich: A.M., 2017.

‘Tent Cities, People’s Kitchens, Free Universities – The Global Villages of the Occupy Movement’, in Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal (eds.): The Social (Re)Production of Architecture. London: Routledge, 2017.

'From Urban Talent to Commodity City: Marketplaces in the Informal Economy', in Jonathan Darling and Helen F. Wilson (eds.): Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York. London: Routledge, 2016.

'Materials of Commemoration: The Changing Landscape of Mauthausen', in Suzana Milevska (ed.): On Productive Shame, Reconciliation and Agency. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015.

'Sammlungen des Protests: Von der Occupy-Bewegung zum Verwahren der Versammlung', in Andreas Hudelist et al. (eds.): Protestgebiete: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Raum und Widerstand. Novo mesto: arte4, 2015

'A World of Matter', in Inke Arns (ed.): World of Matter. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015.

'Network Economies of Waste', in Juliet Steyn and Nadja Stamselberg (eds.): Breaching Boundaries: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste. London: I.B. Taur
is, 2014.

'Marktplätze der Öffentlichkeit: Der Aufstand des Informellen gegen die globale Ökonomie', in Caroline Schmidt and Asta Vonderau (eds.): Transnationalität und Öffentlichkeit: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven. Bielefeld: transcript, 2014.

'Die bewegte Stadt: Demokratiepolitische Potenziale sozialer Bewegungen am Beispiel der Occupy-Bewegung', in Wolfgang Kastrup and Helmut Kellershohn (eds.): Kapitalismus und/oder Demokratie: Beiträge zur Kritik 'marktkonformer' Demokratieverhältnisse, Edition DISS, Vol. 36. Münster: Unrast, 2014.

'Strittige Öffentlichkeiten: Die Besetzung der Ökonomie', in Andreas Langenpohl and Dietmar J. Wetzel (eds.): Finanzmarktpublika, Reihe Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Heidelberg: Springer VS, 2014.

'Platzbewegungen: Expeditionen in den Raum der Versammlung', in Bastian Lange, Gottfried Prasenc and Harald Saiko (eds.): Ortsentwürfe - Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Jovis, 2013.

'Of Multidirectional Forces: Interdependencies between material, social and other resources' [
Forças Multidirecionais: Interdependências entre material, social e outros recursos], in Mabe Bethônico (ed.): Provisões [A World of Matter]. Belo Horizonte: iCC, 2013.

'Visual Culture', in schnittpunkt (ed.): Handbuch Ausstellungstheorie und -praxis. Wien, Cologne and Weimar: Böhlau/UTB, 2013.

'The Architecture of Informal Trade', in Aleksandra Wasilkowska (ed.): Shadow Architectures. Warsaw: The Other Space Foundation (Fundacja Inna Przestrzen), 2013.

‘The Political Aesthetics of Counter-Terrorism Design’, in Gary Boyd and Denis Linehan (eds.): Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space. Farnham and London: Ashgate, 2012.

'Not for Sale', in Sabine Pollak (ed.): Superstadt! Zur Zukunft von Stadt zwischen Linz, London und Shanghai. Vienna: Sonderzahl, 2012.

‘Trading Places: Architectures of Informal Markets’, in Andrew Ballantyne and Christopher Smith (eds.): Architecture in the Space of Flows, London: Routledge, 2011.

‘Making Do’, in Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (eds.) Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture, Bielefeld: transcript, 2011.

'Shifting Waters', in Güven Incirlioglu and Hakan Topal (eds.): The Sea-Image: Visual Manifestations of Port Cities and Global Waters, New York: New Gray, 2011.

‘Placemaking Dialogues’, gateways blog, Kumu Art Museum Tallinn, 31 May 2011.

‘Networked Cultures’, in Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till (eds.): Spatial Agency. Other Ways of Doing Architecture, London: Routledge, 2011.

‘A Practice Without Discipline’, in Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl, Birgit Rinagl and Franz Thalmair (eds.): CONT3XT, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2011.

‘Widmungen. Planungsprozesse und andere Teilnahmen am Recht auf Straße‘‚ in Angela Heide und Elke Krasny (eds.): Aufbruch in die Nähe: Wien Lerchenfelder Straße, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2010.

‘Zwischen Palmen und Zypressen – Zivilgesellschaftliche Begegnungen im Raum der Ströme’, in Irene Nierhaus et al. (eds.): Landschaft, Gehäuse, Orientierung, Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2010.

‘Making Do – Transient Cultures of Self-Constitution’, in Hilary Tsui und Norman Ford (eds.): Cities of Desire - Urban Cultural Exchange between Vienna and Hong Kong, Hong Kong: City Transit Publishers, 2009.

'Networked Cultures’, in Helmut Anheier und Yudhishthir Raj Isar (eds.): Cultures and Globalization Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation. London: Sage, 2009.

‘Crossing the Mediterranean: Networked Agencies in Art and Culture’, in: Russian Academy of Sciences (ed.): Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations. Moscow and New York: Editorial URSS, 2009.

‘Networked Cultures’, in Gulsen Bal (ed.): Open Space – Mapping Contemporary Creative Practice, London: Divus, 2009.

'Hürdenläufe der Ermächtigung', in: Birgit Richard and Alex Ruhl (eds.), Konsumguerilla, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, 2008.

‘Plan ve Çatışkı: Ağ Örgüsüne Dahil Olan Istanbul’, in Gulsen Bal (ed.): Türkiye'de Dün-Bugün Dönüşümleri, Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi, 2008.

'Virtuelles Gärtnern', in: A. Aigner (ed.), Landschaft vor Augen: Neutralisierung eines ästhetischen Gebildes. Wien, Sonderzahl Verlag, 2004.

'Skriptlose Räume: Architekturen des Cyberspace', in: DAM Deutsches Architektur Museum (ed.), Architektur und Wahrnehmung. Darmstadt, Verlag Das Beispiel, 2003.

'Cruising Architectures – Landschaften des Begehrens', in: Universität der Künste Berlin (ed.), Identität und Individualisierung. UdK Berlin, 2002.

'Nobody Knows Me, and I Like That', in: F. Konecny u. I. Nierhaus (eds.), räumen: Baupläne zwischen Architektur, Raum, Visualität und Geschlecht. Vienna, Selene, 2002.


Articles in refereed journals

'Walk on the Wild Side: Sweet Homes in Emirates City, Ajman', in fora on the Urban 0, 2021

'Urban Frontiers in the Global Struggle for Capital Gains', in Finance and Society 4 (Financial Times, ed. by Christian Klöckner and Stefanie Müller), 2018.

'World of Matter', Architectural Theory Review 20/1 (special issue Terra Firma), 12/2015.

'Blendende Werte: Die globale Zirkulation von Architekturkapital', Umbau 28 (Das Geschäft mit der Stadt), Basel: Birkhäuser, 2015.

‘Supply Lines: From Multi-Resource Strategies to Common-Pool Ecologies’, Third Text (special issue Art and the Politics of Ecology, ed. TJ Demos), 120, 2013.

‘Informal Market Worlds: Instruments of Change’, Scapegoat Journal – Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy (Currency) 04, Dec 2012.

‘Going Astray: Network Transformation and the Asymmetries of Globalization’, Grey Room 37, MIT Press Journals, Fall 2009.

‘Spaces of Encounter: Informal Markets in Europe’, arq – architectural research quarterly, Cambridge Journals, vol. 12, 3-4/08.

'Plan and Conflict: Networked Istanbul', Third Text 1/08

'Trading Indeterminacy: Informal Markets in Europe', field - the free-journal for architecture 1 (1), 2007.

'Freerunning and the Hugged City', thresholds 30 (Microcosms), 2005.

'Inventing S-E-X', in: A. Schober (ed.), Ästhetik des Politischen, ÖZG – Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 3/04.


Other articles

'Netzwerke, Datenströme, Plattformkapital: Bau*kultur ist kein Take-away', GATzine, November 2023.

'Cyfrowe platformy miasto i pandemia', interview with Michal Stangel, Architektura-murator 324, September 2021.

'My Home is my Future: Co-Living und das neue Ethos der Gemeinschaftsbildung', ARCH+ 244 (Wien - Das Ende des Wohnbaus (als Typologie)), 2021.

'Notorious Markets. Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie', Soziopolis, June 2020.

'Crowdfunded Urban Development - Urban narratives as vehicles for new financial markets', ARCH+ 231 (The Property Issue - Ground control and the commons), 2018.

'Informal Worlds', cityscapes 7 (Futurity), 12/2015.

'Europäische Protestkultur: Platzbesetzungen zwischen Justizgewalt und Musealisierung', archithese (Die Architektur Europas / Fresh Europe) 06/2014.

'Performance des Protests', Kunstforum International 224, January 2014.

'Occupy: Demonstrationen von Protest', Malmoe 61 (December 2012).

'Informal Urbanism' - interview with Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner (Urban Think Tank), KONstruktiv 284 (December 2011).

'At Home in the World', P.E.A.R. 4 (Dwelling), 2011.

'Grauzonen des Handels', Bildpunkt (anders handeln), Summer 2011.

‘The Art of Living With Strangers: Risk Taking in the Space of Flows’, The Myth of Europa, 7, October 2009.

‘A Practice Without Discipline’, online interview for CONT3XT.NET, 2009.

'Globalisierungskritik wie weiter?', Berliner Gazette, Februar 2009.

‘Network Operations: Nodal Points and Other Shapes of Global Networkification’, Junk Jet, c/o Institut Grundlagen moderner Architektur und Entwerfen (igma), Universität Stuttgart, 2/2008.

'Operation Desert', Monu 08 - Magazine on Urbanism (Border Urbanism), 2008.

'Networked Cultures', in: FeedBack 04, edited by Elpida Karaba & Nayia Yiakoumaki, London, Metamute, 2007.

'Parallel Economies', in B+B (eds.), The 2007 Almanach of Political Art, re:union, London, 2007.

'How Can We Support You?', in: Celine Condorelli and Gavin Wade (eds.), How Can We Support You?, Birmingham, 2007.

'Contested Spaces conflicts, networks and the geo-cultural practice of European architecture / Umkämpfte Räume Konflikte, Netzwerke und die geokulturelle Praxis europäischer Architektur', Architektur Aktuell 7-8/06.

'Happy Slapping Urban Violence in the Age of Camera Phones', Monu 05 - Magazine on Urbanism (Brutal Urbanism - Violence and Upheaval in the City), 2006.

'Kollektives Schreiben: Ästhetische Interventionen im urbanen Raum', RAUM 54/04.

'Dasselbe, und mehr davon! Neue Modelle sozialer Organisation'. HdA Dokumente 15/16, 2003.

'Digitale Welten: Nichtwissende User - Ahnungslos Beteiligte', archithese 4/02 (Neue Medien).

'Spatial Conversions/Cultural Effects/Urban Translations' & 'New Models of Social Organisation', in: UIA Berlin - XXI World Congress of Architecture (ed.), cd-rom, 2002.

'Identitäten und Identifikationen', archithese 6/2001 (Gestaltung als Obsession).

'Virtual Landscapes', dérive 05, 2001.

'Animierte Andere – Architektur und die digitale Produktion des Lebens', Der Architekt 8/2001 (Grenzgänge – Erkundigungen zum Verhältnis von Körper und Raum).

'Distributed Authorship: Urban Transition and Translation', in: AIM (ed.), Linz_London: Autorenschaft im öffentlichen Raum - Authorising Public Space. Kunstuniversität Linz, 2000.

'Zwischen den Teichen schwimmen - Technologische Subjekte, korporative Landschaften, digitale Körper' - 'Swimming Between Ponds - Technological Subjects, Corporative Landscapes and Digital Bodies', Architektur Aktuell 246/247, 10/2000.

‘site n+x’, in: Less Aesthetics, More Ethics, La Biennale di Venezia: Città - Terzo Millennio. 7.Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. Venezia, Marsilio, 2000.




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BOOKS

IN/FORMAL
MARKETPLACES
PLATFORM
URBANISM
AND ITS
DISCONTENTS
DATA
PUBLICS
VISUAL
CULTURES
AS
OPPORTUNITY
INFORMAL
MARKET
WORLDS

Atlas

INFORMAL
MARKET
WORLDS

Reader

ANDERE
MÄRKTE
Erinnerungs-
orte
in
Bewegung
OCCUPY:
Räume des Protests
Space (Re)Solutions:
Intervention and Research in Visual Culture
Netzwerk Kultur:
Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt
Zwischen Architektur und Psychoanalyse
Networked Cultures:
Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space
Cruising:
Architektur, Psychoanalyse und Queer Cultures
Visuelle Kultur:
körper, räume, medien
Die virtuelle Dimension:
Architektur, Subjektivität und Cyberspace