Martino’s Shop
Seating and sitting chairs 2008 Seating and sitting chairs 2008 Seating and Sitting chair #1 2008 Bentwood cane chair, larch wood, walnut, oak 40 x 50 x 82cm Seating and Sitting chair #2 2008 No.18 Bentwood cane chair, larch wood, walnut, oak 49 x 48 x 77cm Seating and Sitting chair #3 2008 No.14 Bentwood cane chair, larch wood, walnut, oak 48 x 45 x 77cm Outdoor Audio Benches 2008 Various Dimensions Outdoor Audio Benches 2008 Various Dimensions Outdoor Audio Benches 2008 Various Dimensions Audio benches 2008 Pine, oak, walnut 300 x 70cm Audio benches 2008 Pine, oak, walnut 300 x 70cm Audio Benches 2008 Audio Benches 2008 Seating and sitting chairs 2008 Seating and sitting chairs 2008

Manifesta 7

Jul 19 – Nov 02 2008
Fortezza/ Franzensfeste, It

Situated on one of Europe’s most important travel routes, between Bolzano/Bozen and the Brenner pass, the fortress Fortezza/Franzensfeste will serve as one of Manifesta 7’s venues. It was built in the 1830s by the Habsburgian Empire in order to defend the north/south passage through the Dolomite mountain region from two sides. Shaped and ruled by changing military scenarios, which mostly remained imaginary, since the fortress has never witnessed battle, the site itself constitutes the basis for formulating the artistic context of the exhibition by Manifesta 7.

The project entitled Scenarios aims to transform the spectacular backdrop of Fortezza/Franzensfeste into a scripted space with voice recordings, text, light and landscape in order to alter our idea of how imaginary scenarios shape our understanding of past and future, circumstance and possibility. Scenarios will be an ‘immaterial’ exhibition, that attempts to shift the site of the exhibition to the imagination of the listening visitor. Writers from all over the world contribute texts to Scenarios, especially developed for this context. These texts reflect the processes of scenario production and imaginative possibility itself. As voice recordings, the texts are individually installed as sound works in the repetitive interior spaces of the fortress, in an architectural setting characterised by the absence of its historical users and the scenarios they were once part of.

Scenarios
Dramaturgy by Ant Hampton, Audio Design by Hannes Hoelzl, Furniture Design by Martino Gamper

Contributors
Shahid Amin, Hélène Binet, Brave New Alps, Adriana Cavarero, Mladen Dolar, Harun Farocki, Karø Goldt, Larry Gottheim, Renée Green, Timo Kahlen, Karl Kels, Thomas Meinecke, Glen Neath, Margareth Obexer, Philippe Rahm, Arundhati Roy, Saskia Sassen, Michael Snow, Saadi Yousef

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Photography ©Wolfgang Träger/ Nilufar Gallery