Gay ideas wien

The artist understands memory and remembering as unfinished processes rooted in permanent renewal and change.

Gay ideen: inspirationen für wiener

This is why she conceived a vigil and thus developed a project characterized by mobility. Every Friday from five to six p. The placards displayed collages based on photographs of crying persons bleeding from their ears. The visual turbulence created by the artist challenged the public and sometimes was even too much for it.

Thus, Ines Doujak endowed the memory of the horror associated with the place with a physical presence. She rather understands remembering as a collective process founded upon renewal and transformation which is controlled by emotions and can be manipulated.

Though the pictorial tenor of her collages was ostentatious in a modern sense, the placards could not be read in a linear way. While their subjects and gesture of protest definitely related to the idea of a political demonstration, the collages — contrary to the picture and texts placards traditionally used in demonstrations — complicated the statements possibly implied.

Because of this intricacy and the almost succinct performative attitude of the intervention the vigil and the memory ceased to be physically present when there were no people , the project was able to fathom its own conditions and boundaries and to extend the potential of memory work this way.

In addition, postcards from an eight-part series were distributed. What the people let out in the pictures was given a form in the postcards: snakes. In the Bible and in Christian iconography, snakes stand for the evil and the devil. The collage technique made it possible not to suggest a definitive reading, but to use the snake as an image accessible to all viewers that invited a direct, often very strong emotional reaction.

Back Temporary. About the Project Location Gallery Further Information. Text: Matthias Herrmann. Time Period July 2 to October 1, Share Project.