An event for everyone!
Losing one’s way, losing one’s bearings in freedom, breaking out of the secure, being locked up in the secure – the Franzensfeste fortress, with its heavy walls, underground passages, loopholes and observation ports is a dream backdrop for the subject of the 2009 regional exhibition. The notion of “Labyrinth::Freedom” is visible with every step, the fortress – “built for an enemy who never came” (Josef Rohrer) – tells the story of the defensive culture of Tyrol which began long before 1809 and began to show its internal rifts long before 2009. “Labyrinth::Freedom” is not an exhibition that is indebted to the memory of the Tyrolean struggle for freedom of 1809, but rather traces the freedom myth in forms of freedom that change over time and with their subject.
Freedom is historical, but also timeless, volatile and yet contemporary: it may be the freedom of a country or of an individual. Instead of one large history, stories are told and interwoven with historical documents, personal narratives, artistic protests. The 2009 regional exhibition is not intended to recount or document what freedom is, but to stimulate us to think where freedom begins, where it ends, where freedom can be unfreedom and unfreedom may possibly even be freedom – an exhibition, in which you can lose or find yourself.
