VIRGINIA LUI


Art —
  1. OBI
  2. SECURIWAS?
  3. Deterrent Designs
  4. Dear Spartacus
  5. War on Cash
  6. Would you like to complain?
  7. Social Design Team


Applied Urbanism — 
  1. Invisible Social Dimensions
  2. 1st Urban Playground
  3. Das andere Möbel
  4. Hassling Hasselaar
  5. Still Only Human  
  6. Metabolism
  7. MG POLIS
  8. Eco Label
  9. Museum of Pacific Arts


Research — 
  1. Publications


Info —
  1. Virginia Lui is an artist, social designer and researcher. She holds an MA in Social Design and BA in Architecture. Lui’s works pivots between design – mostly for social innovation – public art and theory. She works in site-based performance, text, photography and drawing with the emphasis on artistic research. Much of her work can be categorised as Socially-engaged Art.
  2. Contact

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7. Would you like to complain? Wollen Sie sich beschweren?


In the winter of 2016/17, Virginia Lui and Michel Gölz regularly set up their stand on Favoritenstraße and asked passers-by to deposit all kinds of complaints. They were supported by Suhaib Haidar  all three obviously and audibly not originally from Austria. The project proved immediately popular as it took place during the Federal Presidential elections and many people took the opportunity to frankly express their opinions. Very quickly, the complaining station became a meeting point where contrasting points of view clashed. The polite situation that was created by both of them led people to listen and talk to one another. Perhaps no one had agreed with anothers views but one result was that aggressive attitudes often relaxed to an exchange and people came back again and again. The complaints were recorded and then replayed in an academic context.




︎ European Symposium - educult.at

Team
Virginia Lui, Michel Gölz, Suhaib Haidar

Performance
Favoritenstraße | 2016-2017

Exhibition 
European Symposium - Cultural Politics and Right-Wing Populism | 2017