Curator Mirjana Selakov meant: "The relation of people to the phenomenon of time is culturally determined. But every great social change, such as a revolution, is also a revolution of time. It represents a new order.

The basics of these new regulations are changed in time and space concepts. The exhibition focuses on how these new models the lives and sensibilities of people who are culturally different time by perceptions are shaped."

In 2007 Deniz Gül gave me an idea, what people of Turkey have to work out now. We were sitting on a silent hill in Liechtenstein, where she told me about the millions citizens with the growing experience of being different. Different from city to city, not to talk about those many peasants ... partly coming into the cities, causing changes. (See "On Istanbul" by Deniz Gül!)

As far as I remember Deniz said something like: "You feel different all over Europe? We feel different in our own country." But in fact this is not the problem, it is the solution. It was the normal state for more than 500 years, overwritten in a very short period.

Mirjana was asking for different concepts of time, Deniz is currently asking for towers. Clocktowers. Graz, where the Festival "steirischer herbst" is established, has an importand landmark: "The Clocktower". Based on something of the 13th century it was built like that -- 28 meters high -- in the 16th century.

Landmarks and concepts of time, clocktowers and the trial to "synchronize" people. That again means: Being different, sharing a concept. Another aspect of being differen/equal is shown in "svenska landskap" of the italian artist Vito Pace ... the first accent we set for "next code: crossing" in Gleisdorf.

Audience was not allowed to get that close to the pictures, like Mirjana did. Art historian Heiderose Langer tells why: "The empty space between the pictures and the viewer is important. This confined and closed public room, converted into an exhibition room by installing two pictures of insignificant motifs which can be exchanged any time, arouses questions in connection with the practices of aesthetic processes, with the originality and the authorship and particularly in connection with the representation, reproduction and construction of reality and art."

And this tells us, what "the crossing" is about on one hand: "Man sways back and forth – between reality and illusion, between nature and culture, rationality and irrationality, vicinity and distance, perception and imagination." [The Full Text] Well, it is work in progress ...

So let me say hello and welcome to you!

The "autumn-session" will be set at the "surface of the city". (I will show you soon the places.) We marked a track downtown, shaped like an capital L. And we had put a sofa in front of the town hall to test the setup of a "plain air parlor": [link]

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