08 Aug 2012

REGIONALE12 in Murau

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MurBazaar:
A project by Indonesian architect Eko Prawoto, a project in public space of Murau:
'Market in the modern life is more in the logic of distribution of stuffs following the supply and demand principle. It is more dominated under the purpose of profit making. Human being as the consumer often voluntarily victimized by the game of the capital's owner. The relationship is dry and cold. Tracing back to the memory of the place where was a market out side the city, connected with the bridge across Murau river . Flowing in time, we would like to bring that collective memory to be present again.
In that urban square there will be again a place to share and exchange a Bazaar. A social space almost an urban living room. The MurBazaar is a patchwork of pieces of skills and passion of the communities as attached in many artifacts. This would be a moment' Eko Prawoto.

KEIN SCHÖNER LAND:
Funded by the EU program 'Europe for Citizens' artist Uli Vonbank-Schedler and historian Werner Koroschitz KEIN SCHÖNER LAND delve into the region's memory culture.
On the basis of intense research in public and private archives and first person interviews, which led documentary filmmaker Robert Schabus to Montevideo/Uruguay, this three-part project retraces forgotten and suppressed aspects of Murau's history between the 1920s and 1940s. The expulsion of three Jewish families, the deportation of Sinti and Roma detained in the Triebendorf work camp, and the murder of forced laborers are investigated on a number of levels: partly with scientific facts at the Murau Municipality and Craft Museum and partly through artistic interventions in the center of Murau, along the highway, and in an audio piece in collaboration with Radio Styria. Street signs designed by the German artist Larissa Aharoni indicate the location and the history of the Triebendorf work camp. Along the Anna-Neumann-Straße, Wolfram Kastner reflects upon Jewish families from Murau, and Ernst Logar transforms the rules that forced laborers had to follow into postcards and posters.