In 1994 I with Lucio Sartori Design painted the Rovereto's trainstation subway, more than 700 mq, never refurbish (almost pretty good and vandalized in other spots) was choosen by the MANIFESTA 7 curator as location.
Ann Witt citated my painting in her work.
manifeSTATION curated by the Office for Cognitive Urbanism (Andreas Spiegl, Christian Teckert)
Azra Aksamija
Andreas Duscha
Sonia Leimer
Christian Mayer
Kamen Stoyanov
Adrien Tirtiaux
Anna Witt
The Office for Cognitive Urbanism has conceptualized a project for Manifesta 7 that searches out the incongruities of claims to local and also regional identity, as well as exploring trans-national problems. As an intermediary space in the center of the city, the train station of Rovereto has been chosen as an exemplary place for the project. Train stations function as a kind of interface between arrival and departure, an area that is not yet completely realized, but also not really vanished. This ambivalent and precarious form of localization is symptomatic not only for travelers but also for any subject that experiences itself as incongruent to regional local color, due to its cultural, national and economical situation: migrants, refugees, adherents of different creeds, foreign language speakers etc. The Office for Cognitive Urbanism thus proposes to accentuate the role of the train station in its significance as a place of refuge and contact for all of these precarious presences, and has therefore invited seven artists to develop their own contributions on the theme. The modification of the train station in this way represents a spectrum of claims that will address precisely those people whose presence in the city and the region they were prepared for only in part. For now, in this intersection between arrival and departure, the city exists only as a name. What significance this name holds for those people who arrive and depart depends on how the city will react to their manifold and diverse needs. The manifeSTATION project represents this nexus as an urban and regional symptom, a fusion of a city planning-artistic statement and an imaginary station.
The Office for Cognitive Urbanism works with city planning topics in the context of the discourses that arise from theories of media, space and subject. Its projects rotate around the political and cultural constructions of meanings of space and their alteration. For Manifesta 7, it has designed an “imaginary train station” that will temporarily inscribe itself into the current spatial configurations of the Rovereto train station, and which will present the projects of seven invited artists. An essential point of the intervention is to designate the point of transition between the private and public requirements of space. Thereby the manifeSTATION project focuses on those who arrive at a city and region only to a certain extent and are, therefore forced to face the common mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion pertaining to territorial conceptions of identity.
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A central topic within the work of Anna Witt is the everyday occurrence of the political; a circumstance that reflects itself also within medial translations and the according images regarding the conception of what constitutes the political. At the same time, it reflects itself within the experience of being almost completely powerless and excluded from this political discourse. The ambivalence of politics and this lack of power provide the coordinates for Witt’s artistic interventions. Initiating a debate with the local population, she looks for possible focal points within this ambivalence and performs the staging of participation in political development, against this general speechlessness. Due to the act of staging, the requisite distance can be maintained – it is only the image of policy that changes, as it must now face the concept of possible participation in political action.
full text at
http://www.manifesta7.it/artists/449
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