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As in two previous examples, Follow The Lost Umbrella and My Secret Viennese Ritual, I separate the place of reading and the place of image display. In that manner, I question the mutual dependency of text and image and their role in forming the memory and imagination of those who listen to the reading and watch the slideshow.
I took a long walk, following the line of hotels in coastal, touristic Funchal, curious about the landscape formed on the border between the sea/land and the infrastructure built to maintain tourism. In order to get as close as possible to the sea, I needed to go through hotels and act as their guest. In these situations, I filmed with my camcorder and later wrote about this experience.
I chose a beach on the opposite side of the tourist line I explored, the one I’d never visited before, a wild, hidden one, as a place for a live reading. Afterward, with the audience, I walked to a local cultural venue where we watched the slideshow.
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In the case of this very experience, I realized that my camcorder helps me see the place differently, and I became aware of it as a noting tool.
I assessed this notion more profoundly in a lecture I gave at the Tourism Talks conference organized by the Social Design Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in April 2021. (documentation of it coming soon)