5/7/2002
Eva Grubinger
Filesharing, Berlin
Caught In Flux. Tamsweg: January 2046. The global media are focused on this small city. What was once a secret getaway spot for vacationers is now attracting scientists, investors, and CEOs from all over the world. Television teams are camping out here... at 8 p.m. Class Reunion and at 10 p.m. anamorphosis lounge + DJ David S.
Caught In Flux: flexibel.org
Sat. 6 July 2002, filesharing, Raumerstr. 40, 10437 Berlin
8 p.m. Class Reunion
Eva Grubinger as Eva Grubinger, artist
Hans-Joachim Handrick as Ulrich, entrepreneur
Florian Kosak as Stefan, pupil
Dorotea Lieber as Susanne, entrepreneur
Magdalena Taube as Alice, pupil
Krystian Woznicki as Krystian Woznicki, IT-historian
10 p.m. anamorphosis lounge + DJ David S.
in collaboration with Krystian Woznicki
Tamsweg: January 2046. The global media are focused on this small city. What was once a secret getaway spot for vacationers is
now attracting scientists, investors, and CEOs from all over the world. Television teams are camping out here. For several months,
they've been reporting live out of the region once known only for its nature preserves. The subject of their reports is the BSZ in
Tamsweg. All of the alumni have either proved vital to the BSZ´s developement or have built up their own companies in the area.
Even more than Dubai's Media City or Cairo's Smart Village, the BSZ has contributed to a development referred to by all of the
observers of the New Economy as the "Tamsweg phenomenon."
An IT- historian has also made a pilgrimage to Tamsweg. His objective: to explore the history of the foremost elite institution of the
New Economy. During the course of his research, he has encountered Eva Grubct for the BSZ. If you look at the installation of
images from the front, you see rather abstract, indistinct, fluid, two-dimensional ensembles of shapes. From an oblique perspective,
however, you realize that they are figurative representations: inger's now-legendary allegories, which were created shortly after the
turn of the century as part of an art projea girl working out, a young man and an old one engaged in a generational wrestling match,
etc.
The figures, created using a so-called anamorphic technique, are in four different areas of the institution. Even today, they invite the
viewer to experiment with various perspectives. Considering the circumstances under which they were created - in a changing
economy struggling for flexibility - they appear to the computer science historian to be the key to the present. So his research soon
led him to former BSZ students who might have been the artist's models. In his journal, the historian turned these encounters into
written portraits.
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