Vineta

In the program text AKT wrote the following, among other things, about Vineta:

"The city that suddenly disappeared - the myth of Vineta has parallels to the myth of Atlantis, but to us Vineta is closer in time and geography. There are archaeologists who claim to have found Vineta. In Wollin Dr. W. Filipowiak has found remains from a Slav habitation which had some 8000-10 000 inhabitants during the 1100es. But two historians in Berlin have, based on the Oder flooding the summer of 1997 found evidence that Vineta may have been close to Barth. There a Vineta museum opened in 1998.

Out of this material we have made a stage collage. The installation we perform it in is a projection machinery consisting of overhead projectors, half transparent canvases, rotating mirrors and water basins with air pumps."

In Of Other Rooms (1967) Michel Foucault wrote the following, among other things:

"There are also, probably in every culture, in every civilisation real places – places that do exist and are formed in the very founding of society – which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested and inverted, I shall call them, by the way of contrast to utopias, heterotopias."

Supported by Arts Council Norway.

SOURCE:

Tone Avenstroup's private archive, donated by Tone Avenstroup.12.05.2012