A deportation container for asylum seekers, interactively influenced by the audience, racist speeches by the former FPÖ success figure Jörg Haider blasting out of speakers. What sounds like a mixture of the realty TV show "Big Brother" and a dark vision of fear was an art project by Christoph Schlingensief, which took place in the middle of Vienna in the early 2000s. On "www.auslaenderraus.at" the audience could decide daily which inhabitant was deported. Thousands of passers-by got angry on site or caused the servers of the voting website to collapse under their rush. They thus became players in Schlingensief's production. "This is European high culture! Because it brutally and exaggeratedly shows what Europe actually does to many asylum seekers and refugees on a daily basis." (Sooner curator Alina Yklymova)
Christoph Schlingensief's provocative works are still highly topical even after 20 years.
A deportation container for asylum seekers, interactively influenced by the audience, racist speeches by the former FPÖ success figure Jörg Haider blasting out of speakers.
What sounds like a mixture of the realty TV show "Big Brother" and a dark vision of fear was an art project by Christoph Schlingensief, which took place in the middle of Vienna in the early 2000s. On "www.auslaenderraus.at" the audience could decide daily which inhabitant was deported.
Thousands of passers-by got angry on site or caused the servers of the voting website to collapse under their rush. They thus became players in Schlingensief's production.
"This is European high culture! Because it brutally and exaggeratedly shows what Europe actually does to many asylum seekers and refugees on a daily basis." (Sooner curator Alina Yklymova)