Fast food
Zurich main station, performance. 1993
STUDY
ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture
Visual Design, term paper, 1993
With Prof. Peter Jenny
TEAM
Concept, actors: Fawad Kazi, Michael Zürcher
DESCRIPTION
Lunch
Zurich main station, Meeting Point
30.06.1993, 12:13 - 13:41
At one of the busiest places in Switzerland, Zurich main station, we take a seat at the meeting point. We set up a cozy table with the furniture, crockery and food we have brought with us. The candlestick is also a must. Our multi-course lunch consists of a range of commercially available fast food dishes. We supplement these with fresh ingredients. And we finish off with coffee and a cigar. (Fawad Kazi)
PHOTOS
Christian Waldvogel
"Despite the hectic pace that surrounds us, we make time, a lot of time, for fast food."
- Fawad Kazi
REFLEXION
As a first-year architecture student at ETH Zurich in 1993, I was not yet familiar with the work of Austrian architectural groups such as Haus-Rucker-Co or Zünd-Up, which formed around Karl Schwanzer and Günther Feuerstein at the Vienna University of Technology in the 1960s. This also applied to the group Missing Link, which was founded in 1970. A few years later, while I was working in Adolf Krischanitz's office in Vienna, I became aware of the relationship between fast food and the public actions of these groups.
In addition to Adolf Krischanitz, I also got to know and appreciate Otto Kapfinger, the two main protagonists of Missing Link, at the end of the 1990s. Otto Kapfinger in turn wrote the main text for the book ETH Zurich - Building LEE. (Fawad Kazi, 2024)
"The obvious contradiction tempts us, and probably also the audience around us, to question supposed habits."
- Fawad Kazi
