I need to go for a pee. But first I have to write this down, because I have to get it out.
Although Salzburg looks like a very peaceful place crime is happening here. Rainer Iglar took the photo the other day of Andreas Siekmann pointing where his sculpture should stand. I had no camera and could not take a picture myself, so I suggested to him to go over here and there and here and take this or that or this photo. "I don´t take directions!" he said. And I had the impression that he was under some kind of stress that had nothing to do with the scultpure or the sculptor or the photo taking.
I was right. Now I know why Rainer was stressed. The night before someone broke into the →Fotohof and all the computers were stolen. So far there is no clue to who did it but it happened between 8pm and 8am. The nonsecurity locks were broken up, computers gone, no art stolen. The data is safe anyway somewhere on a server. But it is a real annoyance and it makes me sad. I asked Rainer wether there are no pix from surveillance cams. "We have no cameras at the Fotohof." he said.
Immediatley I started to feel Sherlock Holmes. I asked all people where they had been between 8pm and 8am the night between 23rd and 24th of July 2014 and I started to suspect everyone. There are 150.000 people living in Salzburg with a couple of x thousand visitors.
What is the police doing?
The police in Salzburg arrested 14 demonstrators who were opposing the so called march of the thousand crosses by catholic fundamentalists denying women the right to decide about what's inside their body. No one was severly injured. The two demonstrations pro choice and "pro life" only clashed a little bit on the bridge over the Salzach.
Anyway, I am wondering: has the police the capacity to solve the crime that happened at Fotohof?
I heard they have lot to do chasing beggars, chasing drunkards and protecting catholic fundamentalists. Indeed you find drunkards in Salzburg during broad daylight. When I went to the so called "preview opening" at the Museum der Moderne there was a bunch of them from Hallein celebrating a pre-wedding bachelors farewell thing:
From the mountain Mönchsberg I took the elevator. In the elevator I met the artist Stephan Dillemuth. And he told me where I would find the movie that I had been looking for so long:
→Here! I am very happy, thanks Stephan Dillemuth!
I took the bus to go to the Salzburger Kunstverein. The new chief curator from Ireland inaugurated a photo exhibition refering to Roland Barthes' concept of the
→punctum. Every photo in here is supposed to have such a punctum.
Where is the punctum here?
Sorry, now I really need to go to the toilet. Anway, only this: the darkroom for developing analogue photos (!) is being established at the castle right now. There are 2 people working there at the moment. I suspect both of them. Which of them stole the computers from the Fotohof?
Please help if you know something!
See you.
