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verortnet 03

Raum-Text Verflechtung
installation (metal, transparent slides)
ca. 4,5*2,5 m , Bozen 2003


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verortnet is a site-specific installation conceived for “interferenze[n]”, a collective exhibition which took place in March 2003 at Prisma Gallery, Bolzano, Italy.
The installation comprises 150 transparencies hung on a metal structure whose form is determined by a mathematical model derived from chaos theory. On the transparencies a series of synonyms are printed in sequential order, referencing notions of language, place and identity. Specific to the local geography (Bolzano), words in German, Italian and the local language are utilized. (German and Italian are also the languages with which the artist grew up, as her origins are Italo-Austrian.)

The transparency of the slides allows the construction of intersections both between concepts within the same language and between one language and the other.

In this way links, differences and continuous (re)combinations of linguistic microstructures are produced. These differentiated relationships induce the space to move away from its predetermined topology, towards a level of greater complexity. verortnet implies a shift of the notion of place (=Ort) in relation to its conventional meaninag. The attention is not directed to the production of geographical or mental references, which the idea of place implies. Rather the focus concerns the intersections of points, the interferences produced by superpositions; in substance it is the more constituted outside of a predefined structure which is of interest here.