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Ski parking
area
BACKSTAGE – the other side of tourism
Installation
on the ski slope, Wolfgang Hauer and Margit Nobis
22.12.–31.12.2003 Ski slope Planai/Schladming
23.01.–25.01.2004 Exhibition/International conference/Workshop
at Forum Stadtpark Graz
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skis put down in front of every ski hut in Austrian winter sports
regions define the place as a concentration spot. This sign of accumulation
of many people is now transfered to a place beyond the usual touristic
attention. In this installation skis and snowboards were placed
in the usual characteristic way on a spot on the ski slope of the
Planai chosen quite arbitrarily, where no attraction or anything
of interest at all was to be found. The ski parking area - as a
symbol for logistic workflows in touristic regions - remains unnoticed
most of the time, and is only brought to notice by its local isolation.
This ski parking
installation identifies tourism clearly as a business with its
own specific infrastructure and side shows. By creating the appearance
of a gathering of people but at the same time the absence of the
promised attraction the spectator is to detect that many aspects
of his holiday resort are outside common attention. Hence, the
installation inveigles questioning the institutions and operations
going on behind the touristic scene.
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Project
credits Ski-Abstellplatz: Wolfgang Hauer and Margit Nobis. Public
art – ski slope of Planai/Schladming. Documentation shown at
Backstage – Kehrseiten des Tourismus, exhibition/interdisciplinary
symposion/workshop, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Michael Zingangel. Thanks
for the support to: planai & Hochwurzen, Blizzard Ski, blue
tomato, Intersport Bachler/Eybl/Dusika, Sport Pitzer, Charly Kahr
Deutsche Version
Margit Nobis Website |
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