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Margreiter Choy, Dorit
Short Hills
2000
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| Object description | Video Installation, DVD (16 min, english), DVD (6 min 58 sec, german), DVD (124 min, cantonese), various materials |
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| Object category | video |
| Dimensions |
Object:
height: 200 cm,
width: 400 cm,
depth: 520 cm,
height: 150 cm,
width: 200 cm,
height: 48,8 cm,
width: 60,5 cm,
depth: 2,2 cm,
height: 70,5 cm,
width: 100,8 cm,
depth: 2,6 cm,
height: 5 cm,
width: 5 cm,
depth: 220 cm,
height: 68 cm,
width: 98 cm
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| Year of acquisition | 2014 |
| Inventory number | MP 76/0 |
| Creditline | Sammlung Dieter und Gertraud Bogner im mumok |
| Rights reference | Margreiter Choy, Dorit |
| Further information about the person | Margreiter Choy, Dorit [GND] |
| Literature | Dorit Margreiter.SHORT HILLS |
If you want to understand Dorit Margreiter’s installation “Short Hills” you have to take in a lot of detail and information on different levels. This is a model landscape, a television, and a video projection together with photography and an architect’s plan, all framed in a simple wooden scaffold. At first sight, it might look like a temporary experimental rig or an exhibition model. The monitors show a number of things: interviews and excerpts from American and Chinese television series. All the different parts of this installation refer to a family and its way of life—Chinese-American relations of Austrian artist Dorit Margreiter. She visited her family in Short Hills, a New Jersey suburb, and interviewed them, asking them about their favorite television series, the aunt’s Chinese roots, the young cousins‘ adolescent fantasies, and about growing up in a modern world shaped by the entertainment media—all of which is also evident in their choices of TV series and by the characters’ dreams in these series. On the wall is a photo showing the Hong Kong skyline, and the aunt really likes watching series from back home, to keep in touch with her Chinese roots. All the parts of the installation are interlinked on various levels of meaning. The model landscape quotes a scene from the series “Dawson’s Creek,” which the young women are fans of, and it also refers to the actual family home in New Jersey. The architect’s plan on the wall is a plan of the newly built family “entertainment room,” the setting for all their media consumption and all its various cultural interfaces.
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