DID WE GET LOST

Travel, Discovery and the Appropriation of Things Alien

Ragna Arndt-Maríc, Samuel Baum, Eric Berg, Johanna Berghorn, Marlene Binder, Leon Hahn, Kevin Himmelheber, Merlin Himmelheber, Mario Horto, Julia Jung, Isabell Kessler, Lia Laukant, Andrew Lewis, Luis Maximilian Limberg, Victoria Mayr, Juliana Rainer, Lucrezia Rossi, Gina Stephan, Leander von Thien, Chris Wiemer

Travel and the cultural exchange that goes along with it have become a mass phenomenon—yet it’s contradicted by the nationalist movements and xenophobic leanings in our Western liberal society.
DID WE GET LOST: Travel, Discovery, and the Appropriation of Things Alien is an interdisciplinary project module that examines questions in cultural representation in terms of media theory. An excursion of students and instructors of the Art and Design department to Southeast Asia served as a departure point for a visual expression of previously formulated questions on the role of the traveler and discoverer abroad as well as the representation of the other in photography. What concepts lead to an image that awakens a desire for foreign lands and yet withstands the test of actual sensory contact? The group exhibition at the UE Gallery invites viewers to take part in a dialogue with these photographs of faraway places.