Bounding, shouting, showing his teeth, Tomash Schoiswohl jumps up and down in front of Viennese building landscapes where one luxury residential building after another is being raised up. In his hands he holds fluttering pictures of the high-rises being built and tells the stories of four building complexes that no longer exist.
Anger, sadness, and mischievousness come together in the stories and images of Jumping Highrises. The unusual coexistence of these affects creates a desirable antithesis to the bleak capitalist realism whose products can be experienced in the form of the city landscapes depicted. This desire for a radically different way of living, building, and social life announces an explosive power that is greater than a hundred wrecking balls. (Simon Nagy)
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