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die Straße als Denkmal
The point of departure for this work is the road—specifically, the roughly 240-kilometer route of the death march along which thousands of Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers were driven from Graz to Mauthausen under extreme conditions in the spring of 1945, with many murdered along the way.Today, this route remains largely unmarked and serves as the foundation for an artistic investigation into forms of remembrance in public space. At its core, the project asks how the concept of a memorial can be understood today—as a historically developed and continually evolving expression of collective memory. It examines whether, and in what ways, the road itself can be approached as a memorial. This question is pursued through a performative intervention, a form of reenactment: a continuous line of water is drawn along the historic route by a moving vehicle. This temporary trace renders the road a site of memory—one ordinarily defined by traffic, speed, and functionality. The filmic documentation of the action becomes an autonomous artistic layer, operating in the tension between visibility, transience, and duration.
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