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If architecture could talk

HDV Video, color, sound, 47 min, 25f/s, 16:9, AT/MN, 2008–2016, various installation versions

The project follows the yurt, the traditional nomadic Mongolian tent, through different functions, forms and definitions, on a system-analytic journey from Mongolia to Austria.
The journey begins in the Mongolian Gobi Desert. Against a backdrop of rapidly changing political and environmental conditions, formerly self-sufficient nomadic families get introduced to a settled urban living.
In Austria, the yurt as a symbol for off-grid living collides with laws on meadowland gardens. Here, the yurt is used as a research laboratory, as a financial crisis shelter, as a therapy yurt for exhausted »entrepreneurs of the self,« and as a lucrative new business model.

Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
DIE WEITE IST NICHT FERN, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, 2009, 2 sreens, “Struc-Tube exhibition system“, George Nelson 1948, reconstruction Martin Beck, 2006
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Bare House, Pori Art Museum, Finnland, 2010
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk
Katrin Hornek If architecture could talk

The project follows the yurt, the traditional nomadic Mongolian tent, through different functions, forms and definitions, on a system-analytic journey from Mongolia to Austria.
The journey begins in the Mongolian Gobi Desert. Against a backdrop of rapidly changing political and environmental conditions, formerly self-sufficient nomadic families get introduced to a settled urban living.
In Austria, the yurt as a symbol for off-grid living collides with laws on meadowland gardens. Here, the yurt is used as a research laboratory, as a financial crisis shelter, as a therapy yurt for exhausted »entrepreneurs of the self,« and as a lucrative new business model.