A research project on global transformations in rural areas, exemplified at the region of Waldviertel in Lower Austria, where spatial planning projects in the last decades of the century inscribed suburban and highway-structures into the rather rural countryside.
The structural symptoms of this suburbanisation of small towns in rural areas are no longer capeable with the vocabulary of dialectic differentiation - city vs. country - and as such subject of the research based conceptual art project in six main fields.	_ROUTES _MALLS _HOMES _POWER _DUMPS _FUN
The topos landscape differently to spell is suspended: land crossed out refers to a notion made obsolete; scapes, not a word in its own right is supplemented by the pure grapheme underscore marking an interval, and as simultaneously separating and connecting elements, allows for links opening up ever new contexts by showing the shifting identity of the land.
Writing it in such a way performs the movement of meaning happening in spatialisation of time and temporalisation of space.
illustrated by assemblages of photographic images referring to the spatial change; reflecting the hybridisation of the land the photographs do not intend to be documentary, but in an attempt to link several perspectives blocks of texts quoting legal provisions and political guidelines for zoning and building regulations as also statistical facts and figures pertaining to the topics dealt with under the six subtitles are juxtaposed, and enlarge the field of reference of image and text, thus enabling a manifold reading. mtl2001