becsi_budapester
BÉCSI UTCA - BÉCSI ÚT - BUDAPESTER STAßE
2014 / projections in public space, video documentation, analogue photographs
In the last 100 years the traffic connections between Vienna and Budapest changed several times; usual ways were redirected or changed, others speded up. The question of whether today's technical innovations bring also an approximation of the two Danube cities and diminishes their distance including the cultural-political meaning of this phrase, remains open. What remains are semiotically charged street names: such as the Hungarian Road in Vienna, the Budapester Straße (Federal Road 10 in Austria), the Bécsi utca or the Bécsi út in Budapest. Photographs and in situ projections of journeys on different traffic routes between the two cities, which on the one hand are to trace historical paths, or on those roads refer to the other by their name, are intended to shed light on this alleged proximity-to-distance relationship between the two cities.
