REBECCA BARON, DORIT MARGREITER
Poverty Housing. Americus, Georgia
Germ./Engl., 36 p., numerous color images., 21 x 28 cm, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-85160-143-5
€ 20,00 [A]
€ 19,50 [D]
With contributions by Juli Carson and Peter Noever
In her work, the artist
Dorit Margreiter repeatedly investigates the relationship between movies
and architecture, challenging conventions of representation on film in
the process. The use of different media, such as film, videos, text, drawings
or photographs, serves to exemplify the material language that is characterized
by the concept of research. In a cooperative project with filmmaker Rebecca
Baron shown in the MAK Gallery, she addresses the aestheticization of
poverty, using the example of a slum theme park in Georgia (USA), where
an actual South African slum was reconstructed to scale. This instance
of staging poverty can be seen in relation to Margreiter’s investigation
of media-constructed spaces. The project raises questions of reproduction,
authenticity and copies, and analyses the shift from document to object
based on the “Global Village Discovery Centers”.