Zeichnungen für Krems (Drawings for Krems)

Background: Mobility & exchange as methodology of artistic practice enable research into relations between local and global communities. This project reconfigures early 20th Century traditions of the 'neue sachlikeit' (new objectivity) as narrative of time & place and researches private, political and historical subjects common to Austria and Australia using an expanded range of drawing approaches and a modular exhibition structure. Framed by texts on cultural memory and practice: Fuchs, A. (2008) 'Narratives Between Vernacular and Official Memory', Politics of Memory, Palgrave, NYC. Contribution: The series of drawings 'Zeichnungen für Krems' by Greg Creek examine iconological parallels b/w Melbourne and Lower Austria responding to community, landscape and recent change in the local political climate. Accumulating series of modular drawings are installed as part of a linked series of curated open studio public exhbitions. Works suggest visual cultural memories form an idiosyncratic and problematised, philosophical political narrative. Significance: In introductory essay curator Verena Gamper states artist addresses 'volatile relationship between the individual, the political body and social responsibility.' The research project Project was selected for comission through competitive peer process by panel inc. Gottfried Paulus, Manager AIR-ARTIST IN RESIDENCE and curator Verena Gamper, Kunsthalle Krems as part of AIR Krems Kunstmeile International artist residency & exhbition program auspiced by the government of Lower Austria. Exhibition part of international artists resdiency exhbition series.