Hands have no tears to flow : reports from without architecture ; [Austrian Pavilion 13th International Architecture Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia] The Austrian Pavilion for the 2012 Venice Biennale is a collaboration of Wolfgang Tschapeller Rens Veltman and Martin Perktold a team that consists of interdisciplinary fields of study thought and action from architecture and art. The contribution entitled Hands have no tears to flow. Reports from without Architecture invites visitors to comprehend architecture as a social and cultural phenomenon and to experience it from different perspectives and views. It explores this years̕ theme Common Ground with a discourse on the sociopolitical function of architecture.