Fictitious Sound Documents of World History
Part I
E P H E S O S - yesterday / today / tomorrow

Idea and realisation
Gustav Deutsch

Production
ORF / KUNSTRADIO

Production assistant
Elisabeth Zimmermann

Soundengineer
Martin Leitner

Speakers
Franz Csencsits
Emel Heinrich
Joe Maxwell Remick

Sounds
ORF / Sound Archive

Realised as walkman-project for the exhibition:
EPHESOS - The imagination of History
21.8.-2.10.1995 / Ephesos, Turkey

Iniciated and organised by:
DIE FABRIKANTEN

Special thanks to:
Heidi Grundmann / KUNSTRADIO
Martin Leitner, ORF
Dr. Leopold Krystyn, Inst. for Paleontology, Univ. of Vienna
Joseph Hartmann, echoraum, Vienna

DIE FABRIKANTEN about their project:
On invitation by the Austrian Cultural Institute in Istanbul we created the exhibition The Imagination of History to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the excavations in Ephesus in 1995. Together with Austria, American and Turkish artists we aim to avoid historicizing the orchestration of excavation.

Thousands of day tourists are confronted with the interventions of contemporary artists for two weeks.  A computer game testing knowledge of history or a television set placed in an earth pit between antique shards of earthenware break with the romantic conventions in the minds of the visitors.

Participating Artists
Hüseyin Alptekin/TR, Michael Morris/USA, Selda Asal/TR, Gustav Deutsch/A, Ipek Aksügür Duben/TR, Margarete Jahrmann/A, Max Moswitzer/A, Gülsün Karamustafa/TR, Hakan o-nur/TR, Hale Tenger/TR, Franz Xaver