Reduit (Redoubt)

2014

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Object description	4k on HD-video, color, sound, 13 min 55 sec and Photograph of Karl-Göran Persson found in the building in 1981
Object category	Medien-Video
Dimensions	Rahmenmaß: height: 26,9 cm, width: 20,7 cm, depth: 2,8 cm
Year of acquisition	2015
Inventory number	MAV 58/0
Creditline	mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Schenkung Bâloise-Gruppe und Basler Versicherungen Österreich
Rights reference	Skoog, John
Further information about the person	Skoog, John [GND]

In his photography, films, and videos, John Skoog combines research into history and everyday life with a poetic and fictional atmosphere that is grounded in the film and literary traditions of Scandinavian modernism. The video work "Reduit (Redoubt)" (2014) is the centerpiece of the exhibition, embedded within an installation. In the sweeping south Swedish flatlands there is a small cottage that its peasant-farmer owner Karl-Göran Persson converted with trash materials into a fortress and refuge for himself and his neighbors, by way of precaution in the event of a Russian invasion during the Cold War. The exhibition title VÄRN cites the word that Persson painted on the outside of one the doors to his dwelling and that was intended to show his neighbors the way into the protective interior of the building in case of emergency. Persson’s eccentric behavior was at least partly triggered by brochures distributed by the Swedish government, advising the population on the proper course of action in the case of Soviet invasion. A series of prints is based on this brochure, while the exhibition installation refers to the film by including used wall elements and a carpet denoting the floor plan of Persson’s house.

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