auratic scapes, spheres and bubbles …

This tree belongs to students …
and to you tutors, staff and all the other people. After beeing concerned about the poor unification of our university it seems to be important to allow more space for diversity. That’s why we made a present: these two trees. They follow two old trees, taken by a storm. May they bring joy to all the passersby.

In cooperation with Christoph Wiesmayer, Simon Oberhofer, Lisa Thrainer, Oliver Jungwirth, Oliver Schörgi, Martin Kern, Bernhard Gilli, C.-Matthias Kügler

Dieser Baum ist unser …
wir Studierenden, aber auch Euer – Ihr Lehrenden und Angestellten. Nach fortschreitender Vereinheitlichung unserer Universität scheint es an der Natur der Zeit auch der Vielfältigkeit wieder Raum zu geben. Deshalb haben wir unserer Universität diese beiden Bäume zum Geschenk gemacht. Sie stehen an der alten Stelle zweier ehemaliger Bäume, die ihren Lebenszyklus vollendet haben. Mögen sie viele Generationen Früchte tragen und Freude bereiten.

A cooperation with C. Matthias Kügler

verstrickungen/prepletanje follows an artistic approach towards an examiation of the “double city” Gornja Radgona/Bad Radkersburg concomitant with the complete dissolving of the borders in 2007. To speak plainly, it is all about crossing boundaries. De it physical ones, as for example the Mur river, or physic, which through conjuncted efforts can be overcome entirely.

Our primary aim was to mobilize/motivate as many inhabitants of both sides of the border to join a collective needlework in order to produce out of many, squared, single blotches of wool one huge pice that represents the single efforts of the people living in that region.

Not only the outcome of this project, but especially the one-week workshop conducted together with most different kinds of people at Bad Radkersburgs’s main square as well as rather spare but also very interesting in most different areas of the region were an unique attempt to represent both regions’s connectivity and literally interweave two cultures …

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