Peter Mörtenböck

My research focuses on the entanglement of artistic and spatial practices with the changing social, political and economic landscape. In recent projects such as Networked Cultures (2005-2013), Other Markets (2010-2015) and World of Matter (2011-2016) I have collaborated with a worldwide network of artists, architects, curators, cultural and media scholars to investigate the interaction of such practices with resource politics, network creativity, global economies and informal urbanism. Together with Helge Mooshammer, I am also currently working on new research around the notion of Capital Architecture – how architecture’s capacity to both materialise and signify the production of value is being enlisted in the creation of new geographies of investment.

Networked Cultures

Departing from sites of geopolitical conflicts and social confrontations, the Networked Cultures project aims to reconsider the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices.

The project, in particular, investigates art, architectural and urban practices located in contested spaces whose work allows for a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographic boundaries.

In doing so, the project seeks to extend current debates of architectural and spatial planning by addressing the emergence of new forms of urban engagement, by re-evaluating the relationship between space and conflict and by establishing trajectories of an architectural culture geared towards network formation. Outcomes of the research have been distributed via conferences, workshops, reports and publications.

Audio-visual reports and other components of the project have been presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide. Venues include the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, Trafó Gallery, Budapest, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Proekt Fabrika, Moscow,Pro qm, Berlin, santralistanbul, Istanbul, Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte, Vienna and Whitechapel Gallery, London.

See also www.networkedcultures.org and >>publications: Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space, NAi Publishers, 2008.

Other Markets

Spurred by economic deregulations and the intertwined mobilisation of people and goods, informal systems have taken on a global dimension in structuring how we connect to each other, how we inhabit our environments, and how we engage in political and social operations. Nodal points of these transformations, informal markets entertaining long-distance relations have emerged on the fringes of major cities as well as on the borders between different states. Amidst the economisation of all aspects of life and the expansion of transnational spaces, these sites have evolved into prototypes of novel and extreme material configuration. The project focuses on the modalities of socio-spatial production in informal markets and their implications for new models of co-existence and exchange. While these globally distributed nodes of the informal economy are often effects of political upheaval, economic destabilisation, migratory movements and new labour situations, they shape complex systems of alternate relations wherever and whenever institutional protocols have come to a deadlock. The research approaches these dynamics through theoretical and empirical investigations into the visual culture of informal markets. It situates the architectures of informal markets as performative practices indicative of globally enacted juridico-political alignments and examines their workings by way of field studies and on-site transdisciplinary exchange in different world regions (Informal Market Worlds I, San Diego/Tijuana, February 2012 and Informal Market Worlds II, Shanghai, November 2012).

See also www.othermarkets.org and >>publications: Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure (Atlas & Reader), nai010 publishers, 2015.

World of Matter

World of Matter is an international art and media project investigating primary materials (fossil, mineral, agrarian, maritime) and the complex ecologies of which they are a part. Initiated by an interdisciplinary group of artists and scholars, the project responds to the urgent need for new forms of representation that shift resource-related debates from a market driven domain to open platforms for engaged public discourse. World of Matter considers visual source material a valuable instrument for education, activist work, research, and raising general public awareness, particularly in light of the ever more privatized nature of both actual resources and knowledge about the powers that control them. Hence, the project acts through exhibitions, public events, publications and an online platform. By drawing connections between works that derive from artistic practice, journalism, philosophy, activism, and other realms of research, World of Matter provides a place of commonality for eco-logical imaginaries.

See also www.worldofmatter.net and >>publications: World of Matter, Sternberg, 2015.

Book

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2016. Andere Märkte: Zur Architektur der informellen Ökonomie. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8394-3597-7

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2016. Visual Cultures as Opportunity. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-3-95679-100-0

Mörtenböck, Peter; Mooshammer, Helge; Cruz, Teddy and Forman, Fonna. 2015. Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure - READER. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 978-94-6208-195-6

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure - ATLAS. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 978-94-6208-194-9

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2012. OCCUPY: Räume des Protests. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-2163-1

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-1847-1

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2010. Netzwerk Kultur: Die Kunst der Verbindung in einer globalisierten Welt. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-1356-8

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers. ISBN 978-9056620592

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, H.. 2003. Visuelle Kultur: Körper, Räume, Medien. Boehlau. ISBN 3205770404

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2001. Die virtuelle Dimension: Architektur, Subjektivität und Cyberspace. Boehlau. ISBN 3205993489

Mörtenböck, Peter. 1996. Veränderte Identitäten : Potsdamer Platz Berlin - Donau-City Wien. Frankfurt: Lang. ISBN 9783631301968

Edited Book

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge, eds. 2020. DATA PUBLICS: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Routledge. ISBN 9780367184728

Allmeier, Daniela; Manka, Ingrid; Mörtenböck, Peter and Scheuvens, Rudolf, eds. 2016. Erinnerungsorte in Bewegung. Zur Neugestaltung des Gedenkens an Orten nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8376-3059-6

Mörtenböck, Peter; Antalovsky, Eugen and Weiermair, Cecilia, eds. 1996. City Mapping - Mapping Europe. Vienna: Europaforum. ISBN 3-9500576-0-9; 60

Book Section

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2020. Platform urbanism: City-making in the age of platforms. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. DATA PUBLICS: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Routledge, pp. 169-191. ISBN 9780367184728

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2020. Introduction: Data is not a property but a relation. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. DATA PUBLICS: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy. Routledge, pp. 1-25. ISBN 9780367184728

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2019. City as Interface. Self-generating Urban Environments and the Question of Labour. In: Helena Doudová, ed. Shared Cities Atlas. Post-Socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central Europe. Rotterdam: nai010 publishers, pp. 196-201. ISBN 9789462085213

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2019. Frontier Climates – Managing the Global Commons. In: Karen Lutsky; Ozayr Saloojee and Emily Eliza Scott, eds. Viscosity - Mobilizing Materialities. 4 University of Minnesota School of Architecture, pp. 15-33. ISBN 978-0-36-835667-4

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2019. The Art of Crafting Formal-Informal Linkages: On the Enduring Appeal of Belo Horizonte’s Hippie Fair. In: Eveline Dürr and Juliane Müller, eds. The Popular Economy in Urban Latin America. Lanham - Boulder - New York - London: Lexington Books, pp. 43-63. ISBN 978-1-4985-7239-2

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2017. Tent Cities, People’s Kitchens, Free Universities – The Global Villages of Occupation Movements. In: Doina Petrescu and Kim Trogal, eds. The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Ethics, Economies, Politics and Actions in Contemporary and Future Practice. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 257-270. ISBN 9781138859494

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2017. Other Markets: The Global Struggle of Informal Trading Places. In: Andreas Lepik; Marcello della Guistina and Chiara Ursini, eds. Does Permanence Matter? Ephemeral Urbanism. München: Architekturmuseum der TU München, pp. 62-79. ISBN 978-3-9819240-0-8

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2016. From Urban Talent to Commodity City: Marketplaces in the Informal Economy. In: Jonathan Darling and Helen Wilson, eds. Encountering the City: Urban Encounters from Accra to New York. London: Ashgate. ISBN 9781472432575

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Materials of Commemoration: The Changing Landscape of Mauthausen. In: Suzana Milevska, ed. On Productive Shame, Reconciliation and Agency. 16 Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 218-234. ISBN 978-3956791499

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. A World of Matter. In: Inke Arns, ed. World of Matter. Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp. 160-172. ISBN 978-3-95679-083-6

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2015. Global Informality: Bottom-Up Trade and Transnational Realignments. In: Peter Mörtenböck; Helge Mooshammer; Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, eds. Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure (Reader). Rotterdam: nai010 Publishers, pp. 105-118. ISBN 9789462081956

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Blendende Werte: Die globale Zirkulation von Architektur- Kapital. In: , ed. Das Geschäft mit der Stadt. 28 Birkhäuser, pp. 28-43.

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Sammlungen des Protests: Von der Occupy-Bewegung zum Verwahren des Protests. In: Andreas Hudelist; Florian Kerschbaumer and Matthias Wieser, eds. Protestgebiete: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Raum und Widerstand. Novo mesto: arte4, pp. 23-45. ISBN 9789619363331

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2014. Network Economies of Waste. In: Juliet Steyn and Nadja Stamselberg, eds. Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 215-236. ISBN 9781780762593

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2014. Gunners and Runners. In: Lars Bang Larsen, ed. Networks. Whitechapel and MIT Press. ISBN 9780262525756

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2014. Strittige Öffentlichkeiten: Die Besetzung der Ökonomie. In: Andreas Langenohl and Dietmar J. Wetzel, eds. Finanzmarktpublika. Wirtschaft & Gesellschaft. ISBN 978-3-531-19707-4

Mörtenböck, Peter and UNSPECIFIED. 2014. Marktplätze der Öffentlichkeit. In: Caroline Schmidt and Asta Vonderau, eds. Öffentlichkeiten in Bewegung. Formationen von transnationalen Kommunikations- und Handlungsräumen. Bielefeld: Transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-2154-9

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2014. Die bewegte Stadt: Demokratiepolitische Potenziale sozialer Bewegungen am Beispiel der Occupy-Bewegung. In: Wolfgang Kastrup and Helmut Kellershohn, eds. Kapitalismus und/oder Demokratie: Beiträge zur Kritik ''marktkonformer'' Demokratieverhältnisse. Münster: Unrast Verlag, pp. 83-99. ISBN 978-3-89771-765-7

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. The Political Aesthetics of Counter-Terrorism Design. In: Gary Boyd and Denis Linehan, eds. Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space. London: Ashgate, pp. 33-49. ISBN 9781409439127

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. Informal Market Worlds: Instruments of Change. In: , ed. Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy - Currency. (04) Toronto: Scapegoat, pp. 203-220. ISBN 9781482370683

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. Of Multi-Directional Forces: Interdependencies between Material, Social and Other Resources. In: Mabe Bethonico, ed. Provisoes / World of Matter. Belo Horizonte: ICC, pp. 98-125. ISBN 978-8561659240

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. Nieokreslonosc handlu - rynki nieformalne w Europie. In: Aleksandra Wasilkowska, ed. Shadow Architecture. Warschau: The Other Space Foundation, pp. 342-355. ISBN 978-2320000786

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2013. The Architecture of Informal Trade. In: Aleksandra Wasilkowska, ed. Shadow Architectures. Warsaw: The Other Space Foundation/Fundacja Inna Przestrzen. ISBN 978-2320000786

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2013. Krisenexperimente: Symbolische, physische und soziale Besetzungen von Stadtraum. In: Florian Dreher and Kerstin Faber, eds. New Babylon: Architecture and Urbanism after Crisis. Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3959050418

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2013. Platzbewegungen: Expeditionen in den Raum der Versammlung’. In: Bastian Lange; Gottfried Prasenc and Harald Saiko, eds. Ortsentwürfe : Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Jovis. ISBN 9783868592290

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2012. Not for Sale. In: Sabine Pollak, ed. Superstadt!: Zur Zukunft der Stadt zwischen Linz, London und Shanghai. Vienna: Sonderzahl Publishers. ISBN 978-3854493785

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2012. Visual Culture’. In: Arge Schnittpunkt, ed. Handbuch Ausstellungstheorie und -praxis. Stuttgart: UTB. ISBN 9783825237592

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Trade Flow: Architectures of Informal Markets. In: Andrew Ballantyne and Chris Smith, eds. Architecture in the Space of Flows. London: Routledge, pp. 117-134. ISBN 978-0-415-58541-5

Andrews, Jorella G.. 2011. Contemporary Art, "Counter-Environmentalism," and the Politics of A-Signification. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 43-58. ISBN 978-3-8376-1847-1

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Making Do. In: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Space (Re)Solutions - Intervention and Research in Visual Culture. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 127-138. ISBN 978-3-8376-1847-1

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Shifting Waters. In: Guven ncirlioglu and Hakan Topal, eds. Sea Image: Visual Manifestations of Port Cities and Global Waters. New York: Newgray, pp. 20-43. ISBN 978-0983603108

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. A Practice Without Discipline. In: Sabine Hochrieser; Michael Kargl; Birgit Rinagl and Franz Thalmair, eds. CONT3XT. Verlag für moderne Kunst.

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Networked Cultures - Collections of Alternative Approaches. In: Nishat Awan; Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till, eds. Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture. London: Routledge, pp. 124-126. ISBN 9780415571937

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2010. Allocations: Planning Processes and Other Participations in the Right to the City. In: Angela Heide and Elke Krasny, eds. Other Places: Vienna Lerchenfelder Street. Wien: Turia + Kant, pp. 87-89. ISBN 978-3-85132-588-1

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2010. Networked Cultures. In: Helmut K Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar, eds. Cultures and Globalization Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation. London: Sage. ISBN 9781412920865

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2010. Zwischen Palmen und Zypressen - Zivilgesellschaftliche Begegnungen im Raum der Ströme. In: Irene Nierhaus, ed. Landschaft, Gehäuse, Orientierung. Berlin: Reimer.

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2009. Networked Cultures. In: Gulsen Bal, ed. Open Space - Mapping contemporary creative practice. London: Divus, pp. 100-111. ISBN 80-86450-50-3

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2009. Crossing the Mediterranean: Networked Agencies in Art and Culture. In: L.E. Grinin and A.V. Korotayev, eds. Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations: Cultural Dimensions. Moscow: Editorial URSS. ISBN 978-5-396-00010-0

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Plan ve Çatışkı: Ağ Örgüsüne Dahil Olan Istanbul. In: Gulsen Bal, ed. Türkiye'de Dün-Bugün Dönüşümleri. Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi, pp. 121-141. ISBN 978-605-105-000-3

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2008. Hürdenläufe der Ermächtigung. In: Birgit Richard and Alexander Ruhl, eds. Konsumguerilla: Widerstand gegen Massenkultur? Frankfurt: Campus. ISBN 978-3593387628

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2002. Heldinnen. Betrügerinnen, Versagerinnen - 'Nobody knows me, and I like that'. In: Felicitas Konecny and Irene Nierhaus, eds. räumen: Baupläne zwischen Raum, Visualität, Geschlecht und Architektur. Wien: selene, pp. 223-240. ISBN 978-3852661780

Article

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2018. Crowdfunded Urban Development: Urban narratives as vehicles for new financial markets. ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urbanism, 51(231), pp. 186-189. ISSN 0587-3452

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2018. Urban frontiers in the global struggle for capital gains. Finance and Society, 4(1), pp. 108-125. ISSN 2059-5999

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2015. Blendende Werte: Die globale Zirkulation von Architektur- Kapital. UmBau, 28, pp. 28-43.

Mörtenböck, Peter; Mooshammer, Helge; Tavares, Paulo; Huber, Frauke; Martin, Uwe H. and Biemann, Ursula. 2015. World of Matter. Architectural Theory Review, 20(1), pp. 122-134. ISSN 1326-4826

Mörtenböck, Peter; Mooshammer, Helge and Pieterse, Edgar. 2015. Informal Worlds Reader. Cityscapes - Re-thinking Urban Things(7), ISSN 2227-4006

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2014. Europäische Protestkultur: Platzbesetzungen zwischen Justizgewalt und Musealisierung. Archithese, 2014(6), pp. 80-87.

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2014. Performance des Protests. Kunstforum International, 224, pp. 122-135.

Biemann, Ursula; Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2013. From Supply Lines to Resource Ecologies. Third Text, 27(1), pp. 76-94. ISSN 0952-8822

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2012. At Home in the World. P.E.A.R. (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research)(4), pp. 35-39. ISSN 2041-2878

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2012. Other Markets: The visual culture of informal trade. Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art,, 2(1),

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2011. Grauzonen des Handelns. Bildpunkt, 2011(2), pp. 22-24. ISSN 2074-9783

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2011. Informal Urbanism’ – Interview with Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner. KONstruktiv, 284,

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2009. Going Astray: Network Transformation and the Asymmetries of Globalization. Grey Room, 37, pp. 30-51. ISSN 1526-3819

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2009. The Art of Living With Strangers: Risk Taking in the Space of Flows. The Myth of Europa(7), pp. 20-21. ISSN 2041-6245

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Spaces of encounter: informal markets in Europe. Architectural Research Quarterly, 12(3-4), pp. 347-357. ISSN 1359-1355

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2008. Plan and Conflict. Third Text, 22(1), pp. 57-69. ISSN 0952-8822

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2008. Network Operations: Nodal Points and Other Shapes of Global Networkification. Junk Jet, 2,

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2008. Operation Desert. MONU,

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2007. Trading Indeterminacy – Informal Markets in Europe. Field, 1(1), ISSN 1755-068

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2007. Networked Cultures. FeedBack, 4,

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2006. Happy Slapping - Urban Violence in the Age of Camera Phones. Monu - Magazine on Urbanism(5), pp. 44-48. ISSN 1860-3211

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2006. Contested Spaces - conflicts, networks and the geo-cultural practice of European architecture. architektur.aktuell, 31(316), pp. 98-109. ISSN 0570-6602

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2005. Free Running and the Hugged City. Thresholds(30), pp. 88-93. ISSN 1091-711X

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, H.. 2004. Inventing S-E-X. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 15(3), pp. 168-177. ISSN 1016765X

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2002. Digitale Welten: Nicht wissende User - ahnungslos Beteiligte. Archithese, 32(4), pp. 8-13. ISSN 1010-4089

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2001. Identität und Identifikation: Räumliche Konversionen, kulturelle Effekte, urbane Übersetzungen. Archithese, 31(6), pp. 14-19. ISSN 1010-4089

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2000. Swimming Between Ponds: technological subjects, corporate landscapes, digital bodies. architektur.aktuell, 34(246/47), pp. 108-117. ISSN 0570-6602

Digital

Mörtenböck, Peter and Mooshammer, Helge. 2012. Occupy: Demonstrationen von Protest.

Project

Mörtenböck, Peter. 2005-2009 Networked Cultures.