The Aesthetic Insanity

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The work consists of three artworks in the background and three sculptures in front of them. Altogether they form a triptych. Each part of the triptych represents a different view on the town Eisenerz – the scientific perspective, the inside-view and the media landscape. These views developed through an intense research phase and attempt to understand the town/mountain relationship on as many levels as possible. The artworks are the documentary part of my thesis. They are the backbone for the sculptural interpretation of the analysis. The first artwork is an examination of 64 studies that have been made about the city Eisenerz and how successful those studies were in terms of relevance, accomplishment, usage and implementation – scientific perspective. The second artwork is a documentation of quotes I collected from my conversations with 14 people who dealt with EE to get a deeper insight in the social, cultural, economical and political fabric – inside-view. For the last artwork I examined all articles the media wrote about Erzberg-Eisenerz from 1997 to 2014 to understand the correlation between the negative opinion the broad public has about EE and the role media plays in this opinion-making process – media landscape. In my sculptural work I manifest each artwork in the background into a physical counter piece in terms of materiality, level of abstraction and haptic They also represent my personal perspective about the future of Eisenerz.

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