The Project ...

... connects an actual, real physical location in the old downtown section of the city of Gleisdorf with media locations, especially the internet. But from there it leads back to other real life locations. Real and virtual realizations are in the sum a program, which has certain fixed points open for further interpretation. The project stands at the crossingpoint, an area of conjuncture for the following themes:

• Private and public space: is this polarity still timely

• Real and cybernetic space (cyberspace, internet and analogue space)

• Historic space and the presence: how does one direct the past?

• Geographical space, geopolitical definitions: what is homeland? What is province? What is periphery? What is the center?

• Intellectual definitions: what is the formula for power, (discourse)?

• Hierachically: what serves as important, acknowledged, essential, known, etc.?

• Juxtaposition: what open space is there? How does art and culture relate to everyday needs?

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The city...

... our image of what a city is stems most of all from the middle ages. Around a "sanctified center of events" concentrically unfolds what makes a town as such. The Duke, the Bishop, the marketplace...

But today the city is polycentric. New centers were found and enriched with meaning. I don´t think that in contrast the older center of the city can be restored amoung ist original content. It must be able to reach its own meaning.

Martin Krusche