Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel (Tracing Spaces) have run the Museum Nordwestbahnhof since 2015. Their main aim is to explore the vivid history of downtown Vienna’s last big terminal for the transnational goods traffic between the city and both the North Sea ports and the Middle East, which was still in use until 2022.

Their site-specific project CARGO VIENNA is an open-air exhibition concentrating vestiges of the station that have remained on the property into a mini hub or memory sculpture and examining how the infrastructure and people who informed work at Vienna’s Northwest station in those final years have been pushed out.

In May and June of 2023, the collective irreality.tv collective visited various places around the Northwest station area with a ping-pong table, inviting people to play – a round of ping-pong. The result is a semi-documentarian, semi-fictional TV series entitled PING PONG SPLIT SCREEN which is now ready to hit the big screen at brut nordwest to tell the tales of all the things that happened around this ping-pong table. In recent years, irreality.tv has co-produced the following works with brut Vienna at public locations all around Vienna: The Ring of Nibelungenviertel, Nightwatch, The Hantological Congress, and Exit Ghost – Season II.