Depot of Disappearance

Depot of Disappearance is a text-based installation that addresses issues of memory, space and cultural policy. It takes as its focus an independent arts organization, Depot, which was located in the MuseumsQuartier during 1994-2001. Fragments of personal memory and knowledge (or ignorance), be they contradictory or consistent, of Depot during this period from diverse individuals collectively suggest a metaphor for the independent cultural development in the times of socio-political changes. To recall the immediate past is neither a relief from fear of disappearance or a pursuit for nostalgia. Instead, it is to contemplate disappearance in its own right. In fact, Depot continues to exist behind the MuseumsQuartier today.

Lisa Devereux Kernan

I know so little about film. When I was searching for those speakers who gave talks in Depot, Vienna 10 years, Lisa Devereaux Kernan was one of them. I googled her in the hope to get her email contacts to ask her for memory sketches of Depot. But the first page I got about her was in memory of her. Suddenly a very strange sense of time came to my mind, something really really intense.

Podcast with Dominik Portune

A brief introduction of Depot, an independent organization promoting knowledges and debates of art and culture within a greater context of civil society in Vienna by its present team member Dominik Portune. English, 15 min. Listen