DamasQ Drawings

DAMASQ DRAWINGS

The DamasQ drawings are a series of drawings produced during the Damascus transfer project in Syria in 2002 guided by the question: How is orientation functioning in another cultural system? Which categories can be used to describe place?
The drawn-out results of investigation were later compiled, condensed and released as the psycho geographic cityguide: Mykromap 01-11/02/03. which is one sheet of the extensive map project „Meta.Atlas“. The map and the DamasQ drawings became later the source of inspiration and image pool for the entire work cycle of „Mapping the Difference“.
(See Projects: Mapping the Difference) A series of wall drawings done in the framework of the transfer exhibitions in Vienna, Damascus and Budapest.

Concept: Nikolaus Gansterer
Location: Damascus
Year: 2002/2003
Material/Technique: ink drawing/ prints
Dimensions: variable

Map: folded: 20 x 12 cm; unfolded: 80 x 84 cm

Published in:

– Transfer Damaskus, Urban Orientation, Christian Reder & Simonetta Ferfoglia (Ed.),Springer Verlag, 2003.

– MYKROmap, 01-11/02/03, Nikolaus Gansterer (Ed.), map, 2003 limited edition of 100 signed pieces.