Produced
by Paul Antick, itourist? is a multi-media
project that uses billboard art, writing and the internet
to pose a series of questions about the relationship
between the Holocaust, Jewish identities and mass tourism
in the 21st century.
In December 2006
fourteen 10 x 20ft billboards – produced
by Paul Antick and Syd Shelton
– were simultaneously erected in Southampton,
London and Terezin,
Czech Republic (formerly Theresienstadt
concentration camp), each remaining in situ for two
weeks,
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The Southampton billboards were located
in St. Andrews Rd (nr Medina Mosque),
Commercial Rd (adj. Mayflower Theatre),
137-138 St Mary's St and Harbour
Parade Download
a map of the Southampton itourist? billboard sites.
An accompanying website www.visual-culture.com
forms an important, constitutive part of the project.
Functioning like a digital notebook, the artist hopes
that it will encourage discussion and ideas regarding
itourist? It provides audiences with the opportunity
to post their own thoughts about the project, as well
as including other billboard locations and further information. |
