Exhibition tour and activity for young people Sunday, August 1, 2010, 3 – 6 p.m.

In cooperation with the Oldenburg Holiday Pass, Anke Kühl and Mareike Willer, students of B.A. Material Culture: Textiles at the Carl von Ossietzky University, will be conducting an educational project on the exhibition “MyWar. Participation in times of war”.

Together with young people, they will discuss selected works from the exhibition. After an introduction to digital image processing, one of the tasks for visitors to the action day is to create new interpretations of the work “Versions” by Oliver Laric. The “Versions” series itself is based on a manipulated photograph that was published by the Iranian government in July 2008 as proof of the successful testing of new long-range missiles and thus as a demonstration of its power. The manipulation was quickly uncovered via the Internet and caricatured in various forums using exaggerated image montages. Oliver Laric, on the other hand, collected the original and the fakes (both those of the Iranian government and those of the Internet public) and presented them in Oldenburg as analog airbrush pictures. Laric thus simultaneously points to the ease with which digital photography can be manipulated and to the critical potential of online communication.

In the “B@droom” project, young people are invited to present their own views on the exhibition and the topic of war in text and images. The resulting comments are then projected onto a bed. This bed symbolizes how images of war intentionally or unintentionally – via entertainment media and reporting – penetrate the private sphere.