Martina Lunzer Brem

Form einer Frage (Bout the Concrete)

A night at Vienna Praterstern. A car driver and his companion confuse the street with the pedestrian promenade Praterhauptallee, further mistaking the pedestrian underpass, leading to the center of the roundabout, for the drive-up to the motorway. Just before hitting the show window of a bar, the car is stopped by ramming a few empty chairs. In the audio play, the accident and subsequent events are remembered by four witnesses. Yet, from the beginning, contradictions occur, then turning into ruptures. The reconstruction eventually breaks into to three different ends. While these endings — tragical, satirical and in the shape of a mystery — have determined the structure of each respective story, the meta-narrative dissolves further in the dark.

In 2005 the piece was installed by Martina Lunzer Brem for three weeks in 2005 inside a freely accessible broken car at Praterstern. It has been replayed for the first time at “shut up and listen!” in 2006. In 2009 it was made into a short film, which has been nominated for Vilém Flusser Theory Award in 2010.