Imago Mundi: The Ex-centric Worlds of Franz Gsellmann and Gerhard Roth

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Abstract

Franz Gsellmann’s installation ‘Weltmaschine’ (World Machine, 1958–1981) and Gerhard Roth’s novel Landläufiger Tod (1984) exemplify the construction of ex-centric world models. A comparative reading of Gsellmann and Roth’s perspective of the margin(alized) sheds light onto the complex mechanisms of coming to terms with the paralizing socio-political climate apparent in rural post-WW II Austria. Even though narrative and machine, at first sight, appear to be the products of mad minds, they reveal to be the physical shape of an imaginative escapism which radically counteracts the destructive silence about Austria’s problematic past
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)334-351
JournalArcadia
Volume49
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Fields of Expertise

  • Sustainable Systems

Treatment code (Nähere Zuordnung)

  • Theoretical

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