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Ernst Logar & Heimo Halbrainer
Place of Unrest
Remembering Nazi terror in public space

This artistic action and book presentation in public space sets out to highlight the problem of commemoration, to reflect on the monument, and to probe the background of official commemoration culture by considering today’s Belgier-Kaserne, the former SS barracks. The starting point are the events of May 1945 when the SS had the bodies of those who had been executed and buried on the site of the SS barracks Graz-Wetzelsdorf disinterred to cover up Gestapo crimes in April 1945. This does not appear to have been completely successful, however, with repeated hints and rumors of the bodies of murder victims on the grounds of the barracks.

Ernst Logar, who already examined Nazi crimes at the Feliferhof firing range and the SS barracks Graz-Wetzelsdorf in depth in Den Blick hinrichten (Focusing the Gaze [on executions by the rifle squad]) in 2004, is currently looking at the Gedächtnishain (memorial grove), the new monument erected on the supposed site of the mass graves in 2011. This is a place with many facets: a scene of historical crimes, the last resting place of people who were executed, and a place of memory. It is still not known for sure whether the victims’ remains are actually buried on the grounds. The site has thus equally become a place of probability, uncertainty, and unrest.

Artists: Johanna Diehl, Nilbar Güres, Klub Zwei, Ernst Logar, Ján Mancuška, Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Curator: Hemma Schmutz

www.salzburger-kunstverein.at

Stadtmuseum Graz
Sackstraße 18
8010 Graz

The video installation by Ernst Logar entitled The End of Remembering, in which ethnic Slovenians native to Carinthia tell of their drastic experiences with the partisans during the Second World War, of the postwar years and of their present-day living situation in Carinthia. The conversations filmed by the artist are poignant documents of the final generation of those contemporary witnesses who stood up against the National Socialist regime and whose firsthand memories will soon be lost forever.

www.clio-graz.net

The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans
Das Ende der Erinnerung - Kärntner PartisanInnen
Konec spomina - koroški partizani in partizanke

This book is a companion publication to the video installation by Carinthian artist Ernst Logar entitled Das Ende der Erinnerung, in which ethnic Slovenians native to Carinthia tell of their drastic experiences with the partisans during the Second World War, of the postwar years and of their present-day living situation in Carinthia. The conversations filmed by the artist are poignant documents of the final generation of those contemporary witnesses who stood up against the National Socialist regime and whose firsthand memories will soon be lost forever.
The video installation has been shown at many historic locations in Austria: at Palais Epstein (Austrian Parliament, early 2008), at the Memorial for Victims of National Socialist Criminal Justice at the Vienna Regional Court (April 2008), at the Carinthian Museum of Modern Art (MMKK) (June-November 2008), at Kulturhaus St. Primus / Kulturni dom Šentprimož (June-July 2008) and at the museum and memorial Museum Gedenkstätte Peršmanhof / Muzej pri Peršmanu (July-October 2008), as well as in the Aula (assembly hall) of the University of Vienna (October-November 2010) and at the Pavelhaus/Pavlova hiša in Laafeld/Potrna near Bad Radkersburg (December 2010-February 2011).
The book contains written contributions by Aleida Assmann, Brigitte Bailer-Galanda, Wolfgang Neugebauer and Roland Schöny, as well as the biographies of the twelve historical witnesses shown in the video installation, whose interviews are contained in the included video DVD.

Hardcover with Video-DVD 112 pages (German, slovenian and english)
DRAVA 2011. ISBN: 978-3-85435-649-3
Editor: pArtisan - Kunst im sozial- und gesellschaftspolitischen Kontext

The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans
Konec spomina - koroški partizani in partizanke

- Mag. Ernst Logar (Book presentation)
- Mag. Brigitte Entner (Geschichte des Partisanenwiderstandes im südlichen Kärnten)
- Zeitzeugengespräch (Zeitzeuge angefragt)

The End of Remembering - Carinthian Partisans
A exhibition series by Ernst Logar

University of Vienna
21. October – 12.November 2010

Opening 20. October 2010 7.30 pm
Opening times Mon – Sat 9am – 8pm

Opening: 10. December 2010 7.30 pm
10. December 2010 – 28.February 2011

www.pavelhaus.at