The exhibition Inside View Southeast. Investigations on Backyard Mosques at the VAI is the second and expanded version of the exhibition first shown at the AFO-Architecture Forum Upper Austria in 2012. The exhibition presents the work of local and international artists and architects. The exhibition begins with the question of what is considered local and what is considered foreign to the region of Vorarlberg. Bernadette Uttenthaler's project VielFalten (2013) presents a variety of veiling practices from different cultures, all documented in Vorarlberg. Nataša Sienčnik's Dasgelobte Ländle, meine Heimat (2013) questions what "home" is by depicting the historical migration patterns of Vorarlberg in the form of a critical cartography. Sandra Gnigler, Margit Greinöcker, Tobias Hagleitner, and Gunar Wilhelm's second iteration of their traveling installation Prayer Spaces Vorarlberg includes new material, such as collaborative photographs and sketches created by the local amateur group BAF Bodensee Amateur Fotografen. The exhibition concludes with explorations of transcultural aesthetics in Vorarlberg through the recently built Islamic cemetery in Altach, which bridges different religious groups in the region. Projects such as Einheit by Joel Lamere explore the mobility of Islamic ornamentation and its translation into the local context through digital fabrication technologies. In addition to exhibiting my project Dirndlmoschee (2006), I also produced the site-specific work Lace Mashrabiya (2013), which shifts the viewer's perspective between inside and outside, East and West, by overlaying different cultural patterns that signify belonging as a point of view.
Curatorial concept: Azra Akšamija.
Research: Margit Grein.cker and Tobias Hagleitner (Vorarlberg interviews), Claudine Pachnicke (local networks)
Production: Claudine Pachnicke, VAI
Exhibited work: Azra Akšamija, Bernardo Bader, Nataša Sienčnik, Bernadette Uttenthaler, BAF Bodensee Amateur Fotografen (Fatih .zcelik, Tamer Barbaros, Metin Sicimli, Ramazan Kires), Joel Lamere
Cooperation partners: afo architekturforum ober.ster reich, Linz, okay. zusammen leben /Projektstelle für Zuwanderung und Integration (Verein Aktion Mitarbeit),Jewish Museum Hohenems, Islamic Associations of Vorarlberg, the Islamic Religious Community Bregenz
Sponsoring: VAI, Berchtold Holzbau, HKG-Embroideries HOFER GMBH, Christian Zudrell - Orient Teppiche, H.ttges, Die Einrichter, Wilhelm+Mayer Bau GmbH
Exhibition at the Vorarlberg Architecture Institute (vai), Dornbirn, AT
Exhibition and public programs
Duration: 10 April - 29 June 2013