{"id":2517,"title":"A Stone from Metternich's House in Bohemia","dimensions":"00:00:30","date_begin":"1996-01-01","material":"PAL","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin","cached_tag_list":"collected stones","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":44,"permalink":"a-stone-from-metternich-s-house-in-bohemia","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"category":{"en":"Video","nl":"Video","fr":"Video"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/008/808/large/A_Stone_from_Metternich's_House_1996_lowres.jpg?1334828864","poster_credits":"image: (c) Marco Fedele di Catrano","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\"I went to an old monastery in Plasy, Bohemia (Czech Republic) to establish a pole for the [center of the world](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/the-center-of-the-world). Metternich, the German who had become foreign minister of Austria in 1809, had bought the monastery and made it into one of his summer house. Metternich once said that asia begins at the Landgasse in Vienna.\r\n\r\nI brought a stone from the monastery to Vienna, to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s house.\r\nMetternich wanted Austria to save Europe (from the free-thinking French revolution) so he had to put a lot of people in stone dungeons below the beautiful buildings. Their screams added nothing to the sounds of the violins above.\" [full text [here](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2331)]"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"'Ik ging naar een oud klooster in de Boheemse stad Plasy, in Tsjechië, om een *Pole to Mark the* [*Center of the World*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/the-center-of-the-world) op te richten. Metternich, de Duitser die in 1809 minister van Buitenlandse Zaken van Oostenrijk was geworden, had het klooster gekocht en er zijn zomerhuis van gemaakt. Metternich heeft eens gezegd dat Azië aan de Landgasse in Wenen begint.\r\n\r\nIk bracht een steen van het klooster naar Wenen, naar het huis van Ludwig Wittgenstein.\r\nMetternich wou dat Oostenrijk Europa redde (van de vrijzinnige Franse Revolutie), dus moest hij een hoop mensen in stenen kerkers onder de prachtige gebouwen plaatsen. Hun geschreeuw voegde niets toe aan het geluid van de violen erboven.' [volledige Engelse tekst [hier](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2331)]"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"« Je me suis rendu dans un ancien monastère à Plasy en Bohème (République Tchèque) pour y réaliser un poteau pour le [centre du monde](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/the-center-of-the-world). Metternich, l'Allemand devenu ministre des Affaires étrangères d'Autriche en 1809, y avait acheté le monastère et l'a transformé en résidence d'été. Metternich a un jour dit que l'Asie commence dans la Landgasse à Vienne.\r\n\r\nJ'ai ramené une pierre du monastère à Vienne, pour l'exposition The Libertine and the Stone Guest à la maison de Ludwig Wittgenstein.\r\nMetternich voulait que l'Autriche sauve l'Europe (de la Révolution française libre-penseuse), donc il lui a fallu enfermer beaucoup de gens dans des geôles en pierre sous des édifices magnifiques. Leurs cris n'ajoutaient rien au son des violons qui résonnait au-dessus. » [texte integral en anglais [ici](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2331)]"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":209,"name":"Jimmie Durham","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}},{"id":320,"name":"Maria Thereza Alves","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}