TIRANA TOURS
a project by Martin Krenn
Photo Series (10 photos)/Video Interview 6:23 min.
Tirana 2007
The starting
point of the project is the communist tourist guide "Tirana", a book
that was published in German/English/French/Albanian in 1990. After the
fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 Albania was the last country in Europe
with a communist system (until 1992).
During my residency in 2007 I re-photographed five locations
depicted in the book and made a video interview with Petrit Kumi who is
the photographer of the original shots.
The project is investigating the mechanism of ideological rhetoric and
shows how neo-liberal capitalism inscribed its economic and social
processes into the physical landscape of the city.
The project was realised in the frame of the Artist-in-Residence-Exchange program by < rotor > and TICA (Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art). Supported by by the Austrian Embassy in Tirana.
Video with Petrit Kumi
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