404 Ort

Text blocks by Martin Fritz

looks to EAST
Laut Amt dreihundersechzig Grad
ohne Markt der Hallenwürfel dort
Brenner liegt zwei Zeilen weiter
Faksimiles auch hier gegen Geist

looks to SOUTH
raus Berg hinter Stift und Stufe
einträchtig arbeiten die Rotoren
mein Fleiß im Plural keine Tanne
draußen horten sie sowie wurzelt

looks to WEST
spiegelt das was heute schwefeln
per Santers Haus zwischen Emojis
alle zu Ende der liegt gegenüber
nur die Flieger schweigen golden

looks to NORTH
nur mehr Regalen verunsichtbaren
unbedingt Bilder nicht berührend
nicht Licht nicht Archiv bis ich
ganze Kategorien ablöse beim Use

Project description

The anamorphic sculpture was created in collaboration with the author, literary scholar and theatre maker Martin Fritz to mark the 20th anniversary of the Literaturhaus am Inn. It is inspired by the view towards the four cardinal points from Literaturhaus am Inn. The resulting texts are applied as fragments to 144 glass strips and distributed in space in such a way that they constantly dissolve and reassemble as you walk around the installation.

By transferring the sculpture that is originally linked to one specific surrounding to another place, a paradox is created that is simulated though the seemingly evanescent character of the sculpture. Since the site-specific texts were written from the Literaturhaus, looking in all four directions, they define an exact point - namely the Literaturhaus. The anamorphic cube, determined by constant self-dissolution, embodies the impossibility of shifting one coordinate without it becoming another.

The title 404 Ort (Ger. for "place") refers on the one hand to the four four-line text blocks and their (in)visible interspaces (i.e. the spaces between them); on the other hand, the error code "404 Not found" is known in the www to stand for a dead link, an empty reference, a resource that is referred to but cannot be found.