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Utopia Travel
by Emanuel Danesch (vienna) and David Rych (berlin)
Selected videos commenting cultural/social/political realities of Middle East and southern and eastern european regions were presented and discussed at the universities, media labs, and art centres, thorough the route starting in Cairo, and continuing via Beirut, Istanbul, Sofia, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Graz to Vienna, transported by artists in a taxi car.
Preparation: May 2001 (Secession, Vienna), travel: 1 April - 3 July 2002 (EG -> AT), exhibition: July - September 2002 (Secession, Vienna).
Funding: City of Vienna, Bundeskanzleramt Kunst. and Seccession Vienna.
"..systems of value, perspectives of globalisation, positions in recent local political events, ideas of centre and periphery, questions of local cultural production, influences, priorities and culture-imperialistic issues.."
"..in some cases the topics of discussion were informing most of all about the experiences people made in confrontation with a different , sometimes opposed system - was bedeutet geografie? Wie richtet man sich die eigene geografie der vertrautheiten ein? Welche kognitiven landkarten erfindet man sich? Welche faktoren sind für die zugehörigkeit der eigenen identität wichtig?.."
"..permanently the aim of the project seems to adapt to what the local situation requires often followed by doubts in the actual sense of it.."
The Lost Expedition
http://web.archive.org/web/20030802214147/http://lostexpedition.fcca.cz/
