Die Rote Psyche
Research Project and Documentary Video, 2018
Collage © Flavia Mazzanti, 2018 / Original images © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Advisor: Angelika Schnell
Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), SS 2018
A bridge between society, psychoanalysis, pedagogy and architecture.
A journey from the times of the Red Vienna until today.
In 1980, the Italian architect and theoretician Manfredo Tafuri published the book "Vienna Rossa" (Red Vienna). The volume was the result of a trip to Vienna, which a group of young Italian architects of the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia in the 1970s - including Tafuri itself - lead. The journey pursued the intention to investigate the housing policy in socialist Vienna. Nevertheless, Tafuri's studies do not appear to have any concrete connections between Freudian psychoanalysis and the years of Red Vienna.
The basis of this research project was the interest and the search for a connection between the Freudian bourgeois context with the Red Vienna, with the intention of building a multidisciplinary bridge between society, psychoanalysis, education and architecture.
The project "Die Rote Psyche" was presented in form of a Documentary Video and screened as part of the Group Exhibition "Happy Birthday Karl Marx!" at the Architekturzentrum Wien (AzW), Vienna (AT), 2018-2019.
© IKA, Akbild Wien
© IKA, Akbild Wien
Lecture, presentation, opening "Vienna Rossa: The Magic Mountain of Austro-Marxism (Part 2)"
Architekturzentrum Wien in collaboration with IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
30.01.2019
Group Exhibition "Happy Birthday Karl Marx!" Collection with a View #4
Showcase to the courtyard AzW Wien,
Architekturzentrum Wien in collaboration with IKA, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
27.09.2018 - 05.05.2019
Monika Platzer, Head of Collection, AzW
Angelika Schnell, Prof. of architecture theory, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
in collaboration with students: Fabian Buxhofer, Iklim Dogan, Silvester Kreil, Adrian Man, Flavia Mazzanti, Naomi Mittempergher, Luka Sola
Documentary Video Credits
Written and directed: Flavia Mazzanti
Narrative voice: Flavia Mazzanti
Sigmund Freud's voice: Fabian Buxhofer
Maria Montessori's voice: Elisa Mazagg
Anthony Vidler's voice: Maximilian Klammer
Flavia Mazzanti © 2018
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Institute for Art and Architecture
Vienna 2018