Temporary mobile networks
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.
"..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.."
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, Seccession Vienna.
The Lost Expedition
http://web.archive.org/web/20030802214147/http://lostexpedition.fcca.cz/
== Mobile Museums == (2004)
Grant art by Public Art Lab (Susa Pop, Hans J Wiegner).
March 2004 Berlin, April 2004 Vienna, June 2004 Barcelona.
Sponsored by Culture 2000, The Goethe Institute, A9-Forum transeuropa Wien.
http://www.mobile-museums.com/en/
== Mobile Studios == (2006)
Grant art by Public Art Lab (Susa Pop, Hans J Wiegner, Ela Kagel).
March - June 2006 (Berlin, Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Sofia).
Sponsored by Culture 2000, The Goethe Institute, A9-Forum transeuropa Wien.
http://www.mobile-museums.com/en/
KÜBA: Journey Against the Current
A 40-monitor audio-visual installation of a Istanbul ghetto community created by Turkish artist Kutluğ Ataman will travel up the Danube river from the Black Sea to Vienna, via Rousse, Novi Sad, Vukovar, Budapest, and Bratislava. At each stop, in each country, newly commissioned works will be presented in dialogue with Ataman’s original installation. Along the project there are organized donations for Danube flood victims.
Minority Logbox – multiple degrees of representation. Emanuel Danesch and David Rych will follow Küba’s journey, traveling by car and towing a caravan converted to function as a mobile videotheque. In advance of their departure, they will collect film and video works, representing multiple communities in the eight different countries, featuring ethnic, religious and linguistic „minorities“, but also non-homogenous groups marginalized due to other factors. These films will then be screened at each venue.
Journey: 13 May - 9 September 2006, exhibition: 24 June - 9 September 2006 (vienna).
Org: T-B A21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) (vienna)
Sponsors: Wiener Stadtische, Erste Bank, Via Donau.
Supported by: Bundeskanzleramt Kunst, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Transport Austria.
http://www.tba21.org/exhibitions/ex_0509.php
Minority Logbox: http://www.tba21.org/exhibitions/ex_0509_venue_7.php
