_Born 1968
in Salzburg, Austria
_Lives und works in Vienna
2+2 mobile
eyes, 2000
Digital
video (color, sound), approx. 20'
Courtesy of the artist
The city
is a space in which history is made. "The city of history or memory
concentrates and mixes big history with individual stories." 1 That
is to say, historical memory, manifested by the accumulation of monuments
is overlapped with that of the individual or the subject moving in the
urban space, experiencing and staging his/her
own history. What can urban experience be like? In what sites and non-sites
(taken from Marc Augé) of urban space – based on Vienna –
do, for instance, two women about thirty move? What does their movement
in the city look like and in what social contexts are they moored?
One of them, a 2nd generation migrant living on the periphery, a site
presently undergoing urban development (e.g., the district emerging on
the Danube with high-rises, exclusive apartment complexes, company headquarters),
but at the same time a place used by the locals and by tourists alike
as a recreation area. Here there is also a concentration of so-called
non-sites of consumption and traffic, supermarkets, airports, highway
feeder roads, aggressive advertising, filling stations (..) The other
one lives in the center of the urban structure. She mainly frequents places
that could be called sites. 2 Spaces that with their fictive and fantastic
dimension are also used by the denizens of the suburbs in their free time.
(..)
Please also
visit the archive of Basis-Wien at
http://www.basis-wien.at
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