verstrickungen/prepletanje
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. 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 …
More images and an interview at das Blattwerk.