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Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers

HDV video, color, stereo, 16:9, 17 min, 2009–2011

While on a residency in Cork, Ireland, Hornek began her research into the indigenous Irish nomadic people, the Irish Travellers. Due to the loss of unoccupied land, modernization, and strict new trespass laws passed in recent decades, they have been forced to settle down. Their history is set against Ireland’s transformation from one of the poorest, rural countries in Western Europe to one of the wealthiest. The Irish belief in mortgages and bricks-and-mortar led to the country’s present financial destruction, which left highly indebted households, ghost estates, and giant empty monoliths.

 

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Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Intervention: Extension of the existing black cube by Josef Dabernig to the exhibition space, 2 minutes black screen between each chapter
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers
Katrin Hornek Settled Travellers, Mobile Settlers

While on a residency in Cork, Ireland, Hornek began her research into the indigenous Irish nomadic people, the Irish Travellers. Due to the loss of unoccupied land, modernization, and strict new trespass laws passed in recent decades, they have been forced to settle down. Their history is set against Ireland’s transformation from one of the poorest, rural countries in Western Europe to one of the wealthiest. The Irish belief in mortgages and bricks-and-mortar led to the country’s present financial destruction, which left highly indebted households, ghost estates, and giant empty monoliths.

 

www.saprophyt.net