Anders Weberg & Robert Willim (SE)
Being There
8:40 | 2006

Tourism is growing in many parts of the world. Curious people, with bags and cameras, are in search of various exciting experiences. Places of interest are visited and documented. An important ingredient of the tourism industry is the concept of authenticity and the lure of the unique. But the question is: What would be the most authentic experience? Attractive places are targets for more than travel agencies. This art project twists the authenticity hunt. We offer a number of audiovisual excursions beneath the gloss of the tourism rhetoric. Six films, imagining six places. It is an attempt to disclose the nervous system that is underlying tourist experiences.

The places we have chosen are high in population density, they are tourist magnets and global hotspots. They are places associated with pleasure, but also with terror. With the short fi lms coupled to the different places we want to examine the tension between pleasure and fear. And remember, don’t leave luggage unattended.

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