by: Vesna Bukovec, Lada Cerar, Metka Zupanic

We ask residents of different cities (now Graz)  to show us their special place and tell us why this particular place is so special to them.

Our project's aim is to research the relationship between individual, space and the city. With our project we are mapping places containing intimate value in an urban structure of the city. Intimate experiences are partly manifesting through storytelling of the participants and partly by their personal objects that remembers them of the particular place. We are pursuing the exposure of the intimacy by presenting each person in two contrasting environments: one is their special place, the other is their everyday routine.

The project is presented as video projection, collection of personal items and results of our parallel investigation of historical facts of the places. The project will be presented in November in Gallery Centrum in Graz. At that time a special website of the project will be published.