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    a ghörigs hus?

    asphalt was part of the collective residency a ghörigs hus? in the Bregenzerwald.

    "The term ghörig stands for orderly, appropriate, good, right, reasonable, decent, obedient. It is omnipresent in Vorarlberg. [...] The word appears as soon as everyday judgements are at stake, and the confirmation of social conformity and recognition. Whatever or whoever deviates too far from the norm is not considered ghörig. Being ghörig appears as a desirable way of life. This project aims to renegotiate this concept and the social ideas associated with it."
    — teil zeit raum

    The installation grew over the week of the residency. It began as a scaffold of spruce poles, became a bare frame, the outline of a gable drawn into the air, and by the last day it was clad and painted red. From one point in the meadow, and only from there, it gives the house a new face. Take two steps to the side and the image falls apart: a thin sheet on stilts, the house itself still standing behind it.

    What covers also offers itself. The platform beneath the gable became a stage. At the end of the week musicians played on it, and the audience sat in the grass, roughly where a living room would have been.

    The installation opens a space between the real and the imagined. It erases what is there and leaves a surface for overwriting and reinterpreting norms and traditions.

    Project Info

    Status
    completed

    Year
    2021

    Location
    Bregenzerwald, AT

    TYPE
    commission

    category
    intervention

    organizer
    teil zeit raum

    Team
    Ben Grabherr, Natascha Peinsipp, Felix Steinhoff

    Red gable façade on a timber scaffold standing in a sloping meadow, trees and farmhouses behind asphalt kollektiv
    Two people in red overalls erecting the spruce pole scaffold on the slope asphalt kollektiv
    The illuminated timber structure at night, its bracing lit against a dark blue sky asphalt kollektiv
    The unpainted timber gable in place, the farmhouse it doubles visible directly behind it asphalt kollektiv
    The finished red gable seen from the side in overcast weather, revealing its thinness asphalt kollektiv
    Three people in red overalls resting on the bare timber frame of the gable at night, lit from below asphalt kollektiv
    Two musicians with guitar and violin playing on the platform beneath the timber gable asphalt kollektiv
    The red gable from the front with people standing on the platform, long shadows across the grass asphalt kollektiv
    Audience sitting in the meadow in front of the stage, a printed banner hanging at the left asphalt kollektiv
    asphalt kollektiv
    asphalt kollektiv

    a ghörigs hus?

    asphalt was part of the collective residency a ghörigs hus? in the Bregenzerwald.

    "The term ghörig stands for orderly, appropriate, good, right, reasonable, decent, obedient. It is omnipresent in Vorarlberg. [...] The word appears as soon as everyday judgements are at stake, and the confirmation of social conformity and recognition. Whatever or whoever deviates too far from the norm is not considered ghörig. Being ghörig appears as a desirable way of life. This project aims to renegotiate this concept and the social ideas associated with it."
    — teil zeit raum

    The installation grew over the week of the residency. It began as a scaffold of spruce poles, became a bare frame, the outline of a gable drawn into the air, and by the last day it was clad and painted red. From one point in the meadow, and only from there, it gives the house a new face. Take two steps to the side and the image falls apart: a thin sheet on stilts, the house itself still standing behind it.

    What covers also offers itself. The platform beneath the gable became a stage. At the end of the week musicians played on it, and the audience sat in the grass, roughly where a living room would have been.

    The installation opens a space between the real and the imagined. It erases what is there and leaves a surface for overwriting and reinterpreting norms and traditions.

    Project Info

    Status
    completed

    Year
    2021

    Location
    Bregenzerwald, AT

    TYPE
    commission

    category
    intervention

    organizer
    teil zeit raum

    Team
    Ben Grabherr, Natascha Peinsipp, Felix Steinhoff

    Red gable façade on a timber scaffold standing in a sloping meadow, trees and farmhouses behind asphalt kollektiv
    Two people in red overalls erecting the spruce pole scaffold on the slope asphalt kollektiv
    The illuminated timber structure at night, its bracing lit against a dark blue sky asphalt kollektiv
    The unpainted timber gable in place, the farmhouse it doubles visible directly behind it asphalt kollektiv
    The finished red gable seen from the side in overcast weather, revealing its thinness asphalt kollektiv
    Three people in red overalls resting on the bare timber frame of the gable at night, lit from below asphalt kollektiv
    Two musicians with guitar and violin playing on the platform beneath the timber gable asphalt kollektiv
    The red gable from the front with people standing on the platform, long shadows across the grass asphalt kollektiv
    Audience sitting in the meadow in front of the stage, a printed banner hanging at the left asphalt kollektiv