[spectre] ZKM/interactive installation

[Andrea Buddensieg]

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
2003-02-28


Opening 


P e t e r  F o r g á c s  &  T h e  L a b y r i n t h  P r o j e c t :
The Danube Exodus: the Rippling Currents of the River, 2002
Interactive video installation in the context of the exhibition FUTURE CINEMA
courtesy Peter Forgács, The Labyrinth Project,
Annenberg Center for Communications, The
University of Southern California 

(March 1, 2003 – March 23, 2003)

Opening: Sat. March 1, 2003, ZKM_Media Theater, 7 p.m. 

The interactive installation deals with the displacement of ethnic
minorities and the possible connections between them. Based on historic
film material and recent documentary footage, it provides a space in
which to experience history as a stream of moments and memories that can
always be understood in new ways. Visitors are presented with three
interwoven historical narratives centering on the Danube River: One
story tells of Eastern European Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in 1939,
hoping to get to Palestine. The second story, set in 1940 following the
Soviet reannexation of Bessarabia, tells of émigré German farmers
returning to the »safety« of the Third Reich. The third story is that of
Captain Nándor Andrásovits, an adventurer and amateur filmmaker, who
transported both groups along the  river and documented these historic
journeys. The stories shown on large adjacent screens are accompanied by
immersive sounds of the journey  along the river and the music of
Hungarian composer Tibor Szemzö. With the use of a touch-screen monitor,
visitors can select one of 18 orchestrations, and perform their version
of the narrative score. 


-- 
Dr. Andrea Buddensieg

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Leitung
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