The intervention deals with escapistic trends, which stylize enjoyment and relaxation elsewhere to happiness. It  becomes a theatrical intervention in the personified institution called „kunstzelle“. The old phone booth is usually situated inside the so called „Wiener Kultur und Werkstättenhaus“ in Vienna, where it showed many artists in public space. 

Leaving home, lingering at the holiday destination, and finally returning to everyday life „relaxed“. After the cell decides to go on vacation, for the duration of an exhibition, it leaves a written message in the WUK, declaring itself as temporarily „gone“. One week later, she sends a postcard to WUK to share her happiness. In trying to find itself somewhere else, the cell becomes a reflection of human contradictions.

curated by: Christine Baumann and Roman Pfeffer

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