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Emanuel Danesch & David Rych

Minority Logbox: multiple degrees of representation, 2006

Video installation in caravan
Dimensions of Caravan: 225 x 225 x 175 cm Videos with varying durations
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (for the Küba Project 2006). Based on a research on film and video works between 01.06. and 05.06.2006.

Emanuel Danesch and David Rych have followed the journey of Kutlug Ataman’s Küba on the river Danube from Rousse in Bulgaria to Vienna, traveling by car and towing a caravan converted to function as a mobile videotheque. In advance of their departure, they have collected film and video works from the eight countries involved in "Küba: Journey Against the Current," featuring ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, but also non-homogeneous groups marginalized due to other factors. These films, which were screened at each venue as part of the Minority Logbox archive, had been individually selected in order to reflect the cultural, geographical, political and social situation of these communities and individuals, widening the focus on transnational social groups often overlooked by administrative descriptions and thereby deprived of legal status.

For the AIDS 2010 cultural program the Minority Logbox videotheque has been extended. It now also assembles twelve carefully selected films by artists, documentarists, political collectives, and the AIDS-Video-Activism-Scene of the 1980s and 90s. On the basis of the selection for the exhibition „Fever in the Archive: AIDS Activist Video from the New York Public Library“ which was curated by Jim Hubbard and shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2000, Danesch and Rych recur the booming New Yorker AIDS-Video-Activism between 1988 and 1993.

The caravan, the Nagetusch Brilliant, will remain the same, but the video videotheque can and will change and continue reflecting its surrounding.

Emanuel Danesch *1976, Innsbruck, Austria; David Rych *1975, Innsbruck, Austria