maskelknie hoffensdick

maskelknie hoffensdick is an inroad into the day-to-day life of Vienna’s 8th district. It is a call to face up to equality and to acknowledge fragmentation and discrepancies of human diasporas in the urban environment. And also a measure to replace actionist negotiations about the city with clear-cut activity. From dysfunction to livability.
maskelknie hoffensdick is a sculptural project. Its point is to make the city a sculptural task and reconquer it as a living space of societies. This is where one of the crucial forces of sculpture lies: generating, through an understanding of social corporeality, impulses for the comprehension and the functioning of urbanity. By occupying the Kubus EXPORT, a physical as well as social image carrier, Silke Brösskamp provides a proposal for sculptural awareness as constructional awareness—a recommendation of an architectural language and sensibility for the materiality of the city.
Not least, it is about the unmasking of a historically grown, dysfunctional, damaged society. Silke Brösskamp uses the transitions between virtual and analog space for the purpose, between history, the now and continuity, so as to generate insights as well as a recommendation for action.
The city turns into a sculptural impetus for sincere profiles and outlines of action.