„Julia Zinnbauer is our artist in residence at MERZ for the Summer. A string of coincidences from her childhood to the present day have engaged Julia’s passion for Scotland. When she was young her family acquired a Gilbert Scott telephone box that was cast in Scotland and had it installed in their back garden in Germany. Julia Zinnbauer‘s work engages architecture and calligraphy with fashion and story telling (here based around her childhood diaries). In anticipation of her Summer Residency Julia has woven an eloquent plea for retaining Sanquhar’s Post Office, poetically illustrating the necessity of communication from a position of isolation."
David Rushton, MERZ Gallery
Sanquhar, about my short film "phone box postcards"
The Sanquhar Arts Festival
This weekend, from the Sanquhar Arts Festival is taking place. Originally it was planned to inaugurate the Sanquhar Cultural Quarter, in the presence of Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, which unfortunately due to the current situation is not possible. But the Festival itself takes place - on the internet - and I’m happy to be part of. David Rushton compiled sixteen contributions from artists and performers from the Festival and beyond. Their photographs and films appear at regular intervals over the 22nd - 25th May weekend here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/sanquharartsfestival/
phone box postcards
Text, voice, calligraphy, postcards and editing by Julia Zinnbauer
Düsseldorf April/March 2020
Text, voice, calligraphy, postcards and editing by Julia Zinnbauer
Düsseldorf April/March 2020
The
short will feature in Sanquhar Arts Festival ‘running on FACEBOOK’
between May 22nd and 25th and will be presented on screen at MERZ as
soon as audience conditions permit. It can also be seen here: MERZ Gallery/Julia Zinnbauer.
