Global Marriages
29th June – 2nd November 2003
Project for the exhibition "Migration"
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

The theme of the installation 'Global Marriages' is the universal problem of migration. In the museum, Olafur Gislason set up a stage for two live trees. Texts based on interviews with a white South African man and a black woman from the Bahamas were read aloud by actors, and could be heard coming from the direction of the trees. Both interview partners are from wealthy backgrounds, have married into Liechtenstein families, and now live mainly in Liechtenstein. In the room behind the stage, visitors could look at the roots of the trees. This root room had two low entrances. A third path took exhibition-goers up a stairway onto the stage. Two fans increased the air circulation between the exhibition space and the root room. Black folding chairs defined the room before the stage as an audience space. There, Gislason's water colours and drawings on 'Global Marriages' supplemented the installation, which now belongs to the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.

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