Province
| Graz -
Gleisdorf - Pöllau. A bridge from the center of the state through the entirety of eastern
Styria. It has the following backround. Eastern Styria was known as the "poor
house" of Austria for a long time. One reason among others lies in the fact that the
farming business of this area was forced to produce for the market in the first half of
the 20th century. It didn´t matter that it was originally above all a self sufficient
community. These and other "modernization steps" had the expected
disadvantageous consequences. That the regions
stand in competition over who gets the greatest advantage and therefore a pull to the
center belongs to the basic motive in the presentation of the " modern
industry". Seen from this perspective, the different counties of eastern Styria are
waged in competition. Further layered through is the top down concept of intention that
should for example create new business and social themes such as "Thermal Spa
Region" or "Energy Region". |
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Gleisdorf and Pöllau are connected in that it was
attempted to enhance their status through the major material expenditures of state funded
exhibitions. Both exhibitions- "The Path to Power" in Pöllau and
"Energy" in Gleisdorf were considered to be successful. There is a lack of proof
that the large expenditures had any direct results which give witness to essential
contributions towards a new meaning to the model of thought "central /
provincial". There are also no passably noteworthy contributions from the
"center of Graz" in this affair.
The new media situation offers a number of contrasts to
be worked out. In order to confront the insistant extrapolaton of the motives from the
19th to the 21st century. The vanishing gallery deals among others, with them.
Martin Krusche |