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18/3/2015

Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch

Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt

Two of the elements constituting the artistic methodology of this artist duo are the human body and movement. To travel the distance of the circumference of the earth on a two-kilometer-long race track in northern Spain seems to be an absurd undertaking. Where do we end up when we set ourselves in motion? Are we just turning in circles, or is the journey itself the goal? For their project “The Internal Border” (2008), Six and Petritsch walked the length of the border considered by the 1920 Carinthian plebiscite and took photographs of the border at regular intervals. The pictures generated on their route are void of people and result from the random division of the whole stretch into individual sections. What happens here is a denial and a destruction of popular imagery and political rhetoric, opening up the possibility for rethinking this exceedingly fraught chapter of Carinthian history from square one.

In their new project, the artists again raise questions of memory and history. Six and Petritsch are shooting a film about Carinthia. Which symbols or monuments are suitable for expressing the lasting impression of human suffering that comes from war and displacement? How is it possible to escape the perpetuation of political propaganda and the fragmentation of remembrance along the lines of the respective ideological groupings? Sometimes it takes a radical gesture. Art has the freedom to make room for a new memorial culture by overwriting and draining of meaning existing forms of commemoration.

Image: Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch, Die Innere Grenze © Bildrecht, Wien, 2015

Opening: Thu, March 19, 6.30 pm

Kunstraum Lakeside
Lakeside Science & Technology Park
Lakeside B02
9020 Klagenfurt
Austria

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