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Press Release
Archives of Cultural Heritage -
The archives of the Forum Stadtpark Graz
Vienna (FWF) - Since summer 2000, the archives of the
Forum Stadtpark have been freely accessible to the public. The material
collected in these archives covers over 40 years of cultural history and
has been sorted, arranged, systematised and compiled in order to permit
the continuation of the archive. With the assistance of the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF), Klaus Zeyringer of the Université Catholique de l'Ouest
in Angers and his colleague Christine Grond have successfully completed
this mammoth project and, in addition, have comprehensively documented
and analysed the activities and aspects of the Forum Stadtpark on the
basis of the archive material.
The Forum Stadtpark was founded in 1959 as a self-managed
association of artists in Graz, and has since then been active in a variety
of art disciplines - architecture, painting, art, film, photography, literature,
music and theatre. The association's varied materials were merely packed
for storage over the years, but were neither prepared in such a way as
to be manageable nor were they made accessible to the public. "Our
aim was to set up a total archive for all the sectors - taking particular
account of interdisciplinary aspects and the Forum Stadtpark's own productions,"
explains Zeyringer.
Eight archive sections
Visitors to the Forum Stadtpark archives will find a systematic and manageable
list of the extremely numerous and various materials of the artists' association.
Basically, there are eight sub-archives, which are being continually updated.
The newspaper archive contains an almost complete collection of local
newspaper reports since the association's foundation. The publications
section comprises author's copies and the library with all its publications.
The programme archive comprises all the documents and papers that are
produced when events are organised and held. A separate archive section
houses the monthly programmes that have been produced since the 1960s,
of particular interest in their reflection of the development of commercial
art since 1960. For art-historical aspects, there is also an artists'
postcard archive reflecting the distinct postcard culture. The video archive
comprises over 40 recordings of literary and other events since 1990.
The correspondence is also available in a separate archive section. The
large collection of posters mostly designed by artists contained in the
poster archive have been recorded in a database and the posters themselves
have been packed and stored appropriately for the first time. "In
addition, we have prepared further documentation and a theoretical analysis
of the main aspects and activities of the Forum Stadtpark in three book
manuscripts now completed (with two already published), two of which are
linked to online versions," concludes Zeyringer.
Prof. Klaus Zeyringer
I.P.L.V., Université Catholique de l'Ouest
email: depall@australie.uco.fr
Dr. Christine Grond
email: cgrond@nextra.at
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Tel.: ++43 01 710 85 99
Vienna, 30 August 2002
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