This area is under video surveillance!
Markus Moser creates an artificial place that has already lost its attention. In the former dispatcher’s room at Tauplitz railway station, Markus Moser will create 20 to 40 “cameras” during the residency and equip the space with them. The term “camera” is derived from the Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), the pinhole camera. By inserting a converging lens into the hole, the camera could be reduced in size and the image made brighter and sharper In Markus Moser’s work, these obscure cameras made of wire and without lenses are distributed/mounted irregularly in the room and their focus is directed to new points. Only the acoustic level will break the silence of this deserted place.
Markus Moser uses a room as a workshop and deals with the phenomenon of control and surveillance within our society in the project shown there. At railway stations in particular, it is common practice to use surveillance cameras to ensure the safety of passengers. This has an ambivalent effect, as on the one hand it suggests security, but on the other it creates the unpleasant feeling of being under surveillance. For Moser, the object of the surveillance camera becomes a metaphor for this phenomenon.
In his temporary workshop at the railway station, he creates a series of surveillance cameras as wire objects, which he presents in the former stationmaster’s office. As in previous residencies, the artist immerses himself intensively in his work. The surveillance cameras arouse his interest for reasons of both content and form. Through the large number of lenses focussed on the visitors, the artist intensifies the effect and evokes a feeling of distress. This is intensified by a sound installation by Rupert Derschmidt, which distributes the noise produced by the devices when swivelling and focussing throughout the room. Visitors are exposed to the sight and sound of the cameras throughout the room.
For the artist, the unwanted images from the surveillance cameras are juxtaposed with the photos voluntarily posted online by many. Although people don’t want to be watched by someone without being monitored, they are happy to post lots of images online in order to be seen: “I’m at Pettenbach station on my way to Tauplitz. #seeyou”
Markus Moser, wire artist from the Almtal valley, forms a link with his work from the northernmost railway station in the Capital of Culture region, Pettenbach, to its southernmost, Tauplitz.
Accessibility
No barrier-free access (studio access via a step)
Traffic area of the ÖBB – children only under supervision
Public toilet
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Regional vacancies as places of experience and meeting places for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists* from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in them and activate them with artistic contributions.Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in these spaces and to activate them with artistic contributions.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
