Kulturgüter in Südtirol

Section 88: Views from Inner to Outer Compartments

Ed. 3/7 + 5 AP

Einkanal-HD-Video, Farbe, ohne Ton (+ Begleittext).

"Section 88: Views from Inner to Outer Compartments" ist ein Video, das durch die Erzählung von Ereignissen, über deren Wahrheitsgehalt wir uns nicht sicher sein können, einen Reisenden begleitet, der ins Innere von leeren Museumsräumen blickt. Das Werk hinterfragt Sinn und Status der Museumsinstitution in außereuropäischen und -amerikanischen Kontexten. Aber auch die kulturpolitischen Marketingstrategien einiger namhafter Museen, die im Ausland neue Dependancen eröffnen. Für Raad wird die Fiktion zu einem Mittel, um die neokoloniale Politik anzuprangern.

Neben dem Video ist folgender Begleittext ausgestellt:

At the opening of a museum of modern art in an Arab city, a proud local resident rushes the entrance only to find that she is unable to proceed.
Was it her casual wear at an event announced as a black-tie affair? No.
Was it the thugs who are shielding the ruling classes attending the event en masse to showcase their benevolence and refined sensibilities who prevent her access? No.
She fears that were she to walk in, she will "hit a wall” and/or were she to walk in, where everyone else sees hanging artworks, she will see "nothing.”
On the spot, she turns to face the crowd and screams: “Be careful. Don’t go in. Nothing here to see.”
Within seconds, she is removed from the site, beaten and sent to a psychiatric facility.
The next day, a local newspaper’s headline announces: “Demented Woman Disturbs Opening: Claims Museum Walls Fake and Filled with Nothing.”