Von Ententeich und Rappenloch // About a Duck Pond and the Rappenloch Gorge (2016)

45 A5 index cards
Map printout 95cm x 45cm, corresponding localized markings
A number of laser-print copies in various sizes
Audio track, time 2' 20"

As an outside artist I visit Glarus in a search for places of memory that no longer exist as spatial phenomena. The crucial thing to me when I ask the people of Glarus about the places they associate with their own memories is the relationship of the space to remembered reality.

My work in the Gepäckausgabe in Glarus documents less the scenes of a ‘bigger’ history of Glarus, and instead the search for the spaces that emerge from the subjective accounts of individual inhabitants – mostly only for a fleeting moment – as they leaf through the stories collected by me on A5 index cards.

The stories recounted are linked to the respective corresponding locations in Glarus on a map with green markers so that, as far as possible, each of these places is additionally indicated as ‘an existing site’. Further ‘exhibited enactments of reminiscences’ are a collection of photos on a green wall, drawings and an audio track with guitar riffs kindly provided to me by those who recounted the stories.