Mapping the Rural (working title) is a new research project around the Lower Austrian region of Waldviertel investigating rural communities, their historic agricultural buildings and manual tools with photogrammetry, documentary film, field recordings and oral history.

The starting point for this investigation is my family's former pre (and post) WWI barn which was demolished last year after several attempts of saving the building. The deconstruction coincided with my father's aggressive neurodegenerative illness and thus emerged as a 'Sinnbild', a representation, of memory loss and the transformation of identity. I am now collecting and 'reconstructing' the Barn to understand my own and my family’s history, regarding this as a blueprint for my work in site-specific contexts.

More details to be announced soon.