Stranded

Stranded

Wood, paint, 3x3x20m (2007)

Fluchtwege und Sackgassen, Festival der Regionen, Schlierbach, Oberösterreich

curated by Martin Fritz

 

First, this project was a readymade sculpture at the Festival der Regionen 2007, titled Exits and Dead Ends. It aimed to address the contentious topic of the perilous migration from the global south to the fortress Europe. After the festival, it was included in the exhibition Strom des Vergessens, at the Aktienkeller in Linz, an extensive tunnel system built by the forced labor of inmates of the concentration camp Mauthausen during WW2.This show was organised by OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst in Linz, and curated by Martin Sturm. Then, by initiative of the Festival's production manager Susanne Posegga who had initially organised the transport of the Cayuco from the Canaries to Austria, the sculpture was adopted by the town of Ottensheim as a permanent sculpture at the banks of the Danubian river.

http://kunst.ottensheim.at/stranded.html

Later it became a film research project for Susanne Posegga, for which she traveled to Senegal to learn more about the boat and its history and eventually found its builders.

https://fm4v3.orf.at/stories/1706103/index.html

 

 

 

Wood, paint, 3x3x20m (2007)

Fluchtwege und Sackgassen, Festival der Regionen, Schlierbach, Oberösterreich

curated by Martin Fritz

 

First, this project was a readymade sculpture at the Festival der Regionen 2007, titled Exits and Dead Ends. It aimed to address the contentious topic of the perilous migration from the global south to the fortress Europe. After the festival, it was included in the exhibition Strom des Vergessens, at the Aktienkeller in Linz, an extensive tunnel system built by the forced labor of inmates of the concentration camp Mauthausen during WW2.This show was organised by OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst in Linz, and curated by Martin Sturm. Then, by initiative of the Festival's production manager Susanne Posegga who had initially organised the transport of the Cayuco from the Canaries to Austria, the sculpture was adopted by the town of Ottensheim as a permanent sculpture at the banks of the Danubian river. 

http://kunst.ottensheim.at/stranded.html

Later it became a film research project for Susanne Posegga, for which she traveled to Senegal to learn more about the boat and its history and eventually found its builders.

https://fm4v3.orf.at/stories/1706103/index.html

 

Permanent installation, Ottensheim, Austria (since 2008)

Wood, paint, 3x3x20m (2007)

First, this project was a readymade sculpture at the Festival der Regionen 2007, titled Exits and Dead Ends. It aimed to address the contentious topic of the perilous migration from the global south to the fortress Europe. After the festival, it was included in the exhibition Strom des Vergessens, at the Aktienkeller in Linz, an extensive tunnel system built by the forced labor of inmates of the concentration camp Mauthausen during WW2.This show was organised by OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst in Linz, and curated by Martin Sturm. Then, by initiative of the Festival's production manager Susanne Posegga who had initially organised the transport of the Cayuco from the Canaries to Austria, the sculpture was adopted by the town of Ottensheim as a permanent sculpture at the banks of the Danubian river. 

http://kunst.ottensheim.at/stranded.html

Later it became a film research project for Susanne Posegga, for which she traveled to Senegal to learn more about the boat and its history and eventually found its builders.

https://fm4v3.orf.at/stories/1706103/index.html