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Item: A Stone from Metternich's House in Bohemia

Jimmie Durham Maria Thereza Alves

1996

Video, 00:00:30.
Materials: PAL

Collection: Courtesy of Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin.

"I went to an old monastery in Plasy, Bohemia (Czech Republic) to establish a pole for 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.

I brought a stone from the monastery to Vienna, to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s house. Metternich 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]

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Jimmie Durham - Der Verfü...
03 March 1996 - 30 April 1996.
"Ulli Lindmayr invited me to do something in the house that Wittgenstein had designed and built for his sister in Vienna. As an architect Wit

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Collected Stones
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Collected Stones, 1995-2002. Video, dvd, 00:24:13.

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