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Remix Alpin. Ein Work in Progress zur Koproduktion von touristischen Erlebnislandschaften Im Rahmen meines Artist in Residence Aufenthaltes im Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck, 2009 Sozialräumliche Modell- und Audioinstallation In typischen alpinen Erlebnislandschaften fallen in der Regel an drei topografischen Schwerpunkten terminalartige Bebauungen ins Auge: Am Tal-Eingang mit Tankstelle, Souvenir-Shop, Super-Markt, Großdisko und Brücke, die den Fluss überquert, im Ortszentrum mit Talstation, Parkhaus, Schiverleih, Schirmbar, Hotels, Restaurants, Nachtklubs und eine Gastro- und Sondereventzone auf der Mittelstation. Struktur der Installation Tonspuren zu folgenden Akteuren [audio:http://hieslmair.mur.at/website/audio/remix_alpin/01 Inga L.mp3] [audio:http://hieslmair.mur.at/website/audio/remix_alpin/02 Herbert K.mp3] [audio:http://hieslmair.mur.at/website/audio/remix_alpin/03 Markus F.mp3] [audio:http://hieslmair.mur.at/website/audio/remix_alpin/04 Milo K.mp3] [audio:http://hieslmair.mur.at/website/audio/remix_alpin/05 Thomas D.mp3] Sprecherin Audiospuren: Claudia Kasebacher
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Alpine Remix. A work in progress about the social coproduction of staged touristic landscapes Socio-spatial path network model and audio sculpture, miscellaneous media This research project aimed to translate the transnational influences of tourists’ and migrants’ experiences of the Inn valley and its tributary valleys into diagrammatic form. By depicting agglomerations of pathways, terminals, and networks nodes, these drawings reveal the everyday lives of actors in the valleys. The installation Alpine Remix builds upon this artistic research. Its analysis focuses on representing the hybrid constellation of actors (and likewise, target groups), as well as the hybrid cultures and sign systems that circulate through the Inn valley region. Thanks to a network of international actors, a multitude of themes and their stagings find their way into Tyrolean valleys. Typically, three topographical constructions stand out in Alpine adventure landscapes. In the entrance to the valley, there is a gas station, souvenir shop, supermarket, a discotheque, and a bridge over the river. In the centre of town, one finds a ski station, a parking lot, ski rental shop, umbrella bar, hotels, restaurants, and clubs. Finally, halfway up the mountain, there is a food court and an area for special events. Visitors are enticed to buy a patchwork of goods from diverse popular cultures (including the popularization of former “high” cultures), which are presented through improvised bricolages made from various techniques of construction and representation, both indoors and outside. The interchangeability of themes, sign systems, and range of services offered, which can be adapted to changing demands, is central. Permanent edifices, as well as temporary event-architectures, find themselves in a continuous process of transition and renewal in this area. Its constructions, adaptations and performances – in the everyday of the tourist service industry, as well as during occasional mega-events – consist in a coproduction that involves not only local actors, but also urban experts, ex-pats, and migrants. For visitors, the area simultaneously represents the entrance of a valley, a seasonal city, a ski glacier, and – in a rush made up of the experiential breadth of the Alpine landscape on the one hand, and its clever orchestration of interpersonal proximity on the other – a space of longing that is also constructed out of visitors’ own expectations. The installation is a walk-in model built on a U-shaped event tribune serves as the setting for the abstracted spatial structure of an Alpine valley landscape. Representative sectional models of key constructions in the area are placed on three different levels. Each of these model-groups includes a listening station, where short audio tracks describing the involved actors can be heard. Networks of passages inlaid in the stands mark the crossings of diverse actors in the valley, and connect their stagings to the regions beyond the valley that they use as models. |