Bernd Trasberger
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  • LIEBE GRUESSE AUS GRAZ VON SUPERSTUDIO

    My film is being screened at ONETAKE FILM FESTIVAL in Zagreb (CRO), taking place Oct 23-24 2020 as an online festival.

    the Diagonale festival is cancelled due to CoVid-19

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    Liebe Gruesse aus Graz von Superstudio

    “The scope of the works is to create, through a limited utopia of the future, responsible
    guidelines to act in the present.”
    Superstudio, 1969

    “The point is that when we look now at collages like the Continuous Monument we
    consider them as works of art, as sort of surrealist works of art; but in my opinion they
    were not works of art, they were illustrations of theories. They were illustrations of political
    manifestos.“
    Adolfo Natalini, 2018

    In 1969, Superstudio realized the installation La Stanza die Graz [The Room of Graz]—the
    only built version of their iconic Continuous Monument—as a contribution to the tri-national
    biennial Trigon in the city of Graz. Through an extensive research at the archives of Neue
    Galerie and steirischer herbst, Bernd Trasberger developed a video work, which contrasts
    historical documents and works from the Graz archives with contemporary quotes and
    reflections on the legacy of Superstudio today quoted from the email conversations of Bernd Trasberger with Superstudio's former members in early 2019.
    Four actors matching the appearance of Superstudio’s Gian Piero Frassinelli, Roberto
    Magris, Adolfo Natalini and Christiano Toraldo di Francia 50 years ago, venture into their
    own past staged at the collection depot of Neue Galerie.
    But there are markers that betray the first impression of a forced re-enactment: While
    reciting Superstudio’s archival texts from 1969 and emails from 2019, one of the actors
    quite visibly wears a smart watch and other pieces of contemporary garments. All actors
    wear blue plastic conservator’s gloves that signify the preservation of the arts and the
    cultural heritage of taking responsibility for the history for present and coming generations.

    In Memoriam Cristiano Toraldo di Francia and Adolfo Natalini who both passed away shortly after the video was finished.

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