TINARS ARCHIVE
Vera Frenkel's
Body Missing Altaussee Project
An exploration of her practice.
Mon. November 12, 2018
Doors at 7 PM
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
Pages UnBound invites you to join us on November 12th for the public presentation of Vera Frenkel's Body Missing Altaussee project. The artist will walk us through the new 2018 website and special guests will engage the artist and each other regarding the project. These include:
Elizabeth Legge, Writer, Art Historian, Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art, University of Toronto
Wanda Nanibush, Anishinaabe-kwe writer, image-maker, curator and community organizer, Wanda Nanibush is inaugural Curator of Indigenous Art and Co-Head of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department, Art Gallery of Ontario
Sigrid Schade, Curator, Editor of the Hatje Cantz monograph entitled Vera Frenkel, Art and Cultural Historian, Professor and Head of the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS), Zurich University of the Arts
Norbert Schweizer, Former Production Manager for Exhibitions, Director of Administration at the O.K. (Offenes Kulturhaus) Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria; Project Manager for multiple iterations of Body Missing in Europe and Japan; rightly named Project Companion
Dot Tuer, Writer, Cultural Historian, Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, OCAD University; author of Mining the Media Archive: Essays on Art, Technology & Cultural Resistance (YYZ Books)
Body Missing is a six-channel photo-video-web artwork on the issue of Third Reich art theft. It was first created in 1994 at the Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, for the international exhibition, Andere Körper (Other Bodies) curated by art historian and editor, Prof. Dr. Sigrid Schade.
Since then, Body Missing has travelled widely — from Vienna to Stockholm, Toronto to Paris, Warsaw to Tokyo, and many venues in between, returning to Austria in 2008 as part of the Tiefenrausch (Depth Addiction) exhibition in the Aktienkeller tunnels under the City of Linz.
In September, 2017, Frenkel was invited to install Body Missing in the Altaussee salt mine, in the very chambers where over 7000 art works stolen under Hitler's notorious Sonderauftrag Linz (Special Assignment Linz) were stored, and destined for his never realized Fuehrermuseum. The key storage spaces, reached through nearly a kilometre of long, narrow tunnels into the mountain, were opened to the public for the first time since 1946 for last fall's Body Missing installation. According to visitors, the relation between artwork and place was uncannily resonant on many levels — the project radiated as much artistic and political relevance and urgency as it had in the year of its inception, two and a half decades earlier.
In 2018, with the help of programmers Matt Smith and Tom Legrady, Vera Frenkel created the Body Missing Altaussee website to make available the experience of finding the installation in the charged underground location that had witnessed the events that lie at the core of the work.
bodymissing-altaussee.org
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MON. NOV. 12, 2018
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