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Елизавета Эбнер. South Tyrol. The Other Italy
Preface
Chapter One. Personal File
Chapter Two. North – South
Chapter Three. Grüss Dich!
Chapter Four. We Are in Italy, Are We?
Chapter Five. Walter
Chapter Six. Margaret According to Feuchtwanger
Chapter Seven. The “Bolzano Effect”
Chapter Eight. Peace Already?
Chapter Nine. No One Has the Right to Obey
Chapter Ten. Never Again
Chapter Eleven. The Art of Seduction
Chapter Twelve. The Wild Lake
Chapter Thirteen. The Butter
Chapter Fourteen. Bad Dreikirchen
Chapter Fifteen. The Answers
Chapter Sixteen. Talk to Strangers: Mountains and Hütte
Chapter Seventeen. Briol
Chapter Eighteen. South Tyrolean Blonds
Chapter Nineteen. The Wonderful Neighbour
Chapter Twenty. We Are Us
Chapter Twenty-One. The Feast of Life
Chapter Twenty-Two. Back in the USSR
Chapter Twenty-Three. The Antiquities
Chapter Twenty-Four. Karersee – Lago di Carezza
Chapter Twenty-Five “Carthage Must Be Destroyed”?
Chapter Twenty-Six. Hugo
Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Leading Role
Chapter Twenty-Eight. Heart-to-Heart
Chapter Twenty-Nine. A Story with a Follow-Up
Chapter Thirty. About Wine
Chapter Thirty-One. Ambach
Chapter Thirty-Two. With You
Отрывок из книги
The art island of Naoshima in the Seto Inland Sea features a work The World Flag Ant Farm by the artist Yukinori Yanagi. The artwork is made of rows of plexiglass boxes with flags inside of them made of coloured sand. The boxes are connected by tubes, through which ants are running, carrying the sand from one part of the installation to another. Everything is real in the work of the Japanese artist: the insects build nests, move, eat from specially designed food dispensers, and die. Yanagi’s philosophy is as follows: “Nations, ethnic groups, religions are limited by imaginary boundaries, born of social or institutional constructions.” When ants destroy clear contours of the flags, they, in his opinion, demonstrate “a simple and encouraging way to gradually unite all the peoples of the world.” Yukinori Yanagi’s installation is symbolic. It questions the importance of borders between countries, raises the issue of their gradual destruction and the consequences of migration.
I wonder if the ants in the Japanese artist’s work were of different species… Alas, there is no information about that, and yet not all the varieties of those insects are friendly to each other. Quite like people, they fight for their territory, food, children, and domination of their own species. Who knows how quickly the fragile sand boundaries would become multi-coloured well-organized fortifications in real life?
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Choosing the subjects for this book, creating my own collection of stories for it, I understood why collectors so often devote their lives to their work. Choosing the best of so many beautiful creations is an art. Choosing the most significant things in the life of a whole region is not an easy task. Therefore, I apologize in advance for the things that I may have overlooked. The history of South Tyrol, as well as its present, is, of course, abundant in things that are still waiting for their narrator.
After reading my collection of stories you will surely see a single image of this mountain land – its face, if you like. This is how I see South Tyrol. I cannot promise that your vision of this region will coincide with mine, but what I know for sure is that after reading this book you will pack your suitcase, backpack, or travelling bag and will head for South Tyrol. I also know that you will fall in love with it.
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