[artinfo] Laboratory Austria | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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Laboratory Austria | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Exhibition dates: March 22 - April 28, 2013

Opening: March 21, 2013, 7 p.m.

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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Schillerplatz 3
1100 Vienna

Curators: Tal Adler, Friedemann Derschmidt, Karin Schneider

Two historical myths - that Austria was the 'first victim' of Nazi 
Germany's aggression and that Austrians were victims of the war - 
were cultivated in Austria's society during the postwar era through 
family narrations and popular images like that depicting Vienna's St. 
Stephen's Cathedral on fire. Based on these specific ways of 
presenting history and the development of counter narrations, Austria 
can be used as a laboratory for the politics of history as well as 
the construction and deconstruction of historical myths in general. 
Focusing on specific examples, the exhibition 'Laboratory Austria' 
examines how the family, organizations of civil society, museums, and 
archives deal with their legacy, and how history is represented in 
the public arena. The exhibits are contextualized by research 
material which is available to the public as an open archive. The 
'Laboratory Austria' research team invites groups, associations, 
experts, and family members to discuss and develop the exhibited 
projects.
<http://www.akbild.ac.at/resolveuid/52801f98ae67c02187db840e9b596142>
Laboratory Austria
Duration of the exhibition | 22.03.2013 - 28.04.2013
<http://www.akbild.ac.at/resolveuid/f370c11da80084fec9f5132001a2746f>
<http://www.akbild.ac.at/resolveuid/f370c11da80084fec9f5132001a2746f>Laboratory 
Austria: Research and Development
Program at xhibit from 06.04.2013