Relocation: The Eisenerz Story told by Gallery on Wheels and Captain Klaus

so here we have the story unfolding... thanks loads to Gallery on Wheels for the video, and thanks loads to all the artists-on-the-road who stood (and drove) with us!

 

Nomadic Village 2016 - Legend in Eisernerz by GoW, 7:07

ps: we left Eisenerz with a smile and didn't look back. The only sad thing was leaving those locals who had so warmheartedly welcomed us.

lufka

Lufka is back!

Nomadic Village is happy to be reunited with Lufka. This unique vehicle (a Ford E 300 from 1969) has been with the Captain from the very beginning of the Nomadic Village travels. From 2002 till 2007 it saw big parts of central-eastern Europe, towing a huge atelier/darkroom caravan and teaching us quite a few things about the advantages of a friendly appearance, and how needing mechanics can lead to very nice encounters....
After some years of hibernation it was restored to driving condition and rented out for some months in 2015. Now we are glad to have it back in our Village on Hohe Wand where Lufka will house Małgorzata Goliszewska.

some more details about Lufka.

Lufka somewhere in Ukraine in 2005, towing the atelier/darkroom

 

return

our homebase, Dreistetten, Austria

We managed to return back home and what's the prominent feeling? We want to return to so many places!

The longest itinerary in years brought us to a load of amazing people and places. We still can't believe the plentitude of intense experiences, strong impressions, great surprises and gratifying activities we have been through; how uplifting it can be to meet strangers and become friends; in how many ways our core interest is interpreted by different artists; how nice it is to have a bit of soap opera of people's drama along the way, but also a distraction.

It is reassuring how our grand set up held together. Only two small fixes on appr. 4000 km, and the big break down only happened when we arrived back in the garden at our homebase. Nice vehicles!

Now it is time to take that huge amount of inspiration and look ahead. We will make a final exhibition at the end of the coming Nomadic Village, and take it on a tour through Austria. We'll work our view of the plentitude of impressions into an exhibition tinski and the Captain are having in Vienna in December. And we'll happily plan a future in which the Nomadic Village will return to:

-small but dangers and CMAK in Cerkno

-Žiga and the fantastic location at the abandoned pool in Vrhnika

-Metelkova

-Srdjan andBiljana, and their tranquil garden in Subotica

-KleinHouse, also Subotica

-finally Art Klinika, maybe we'll just illegally exhibit in Novi Sad's public space

-a thousand places and people in Romania we didn't have enough time to stay 
 with

-Conny in Wurmloch who, like so many other people in Romania, made us feel
 welcome

-Mircea, Crinu and all the other pilots from Brasov

-Ulric, we'll meet in Amstelveen soon
-Lis, with whom we are sure our paths will cross again. And again.

-Francisca, our first artist in a mobile residency, once we find a way to go to
 Chile

-Andrew and Caitlin, who just got themselves a mini coach!

Thanks for being on the road with us! We are off now for the final Nomadic Village on Hohe Wand. Hooray!

a memorable meeting with some pilots in Brasov

driving back home

driving home

on the way to austria

good bye romanian hills

good bye romanian sky

good bye friendly smiles

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holy gamoly

an orthodox view

Cerkno has really changed something within the Nomadic Village. When the Village was saved by a priest who allowed us to put our settlement behind the church, we realised that this might also be a possibility for the future. In the end it is the church's tradition to welcome travellers...
Today again, but enough of that, we are simply happy to have a very tranquil place for tonight.

nice to be welcome on that property

our location

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a new garden every day

klaus driving us from one nice place to the other

luxury spot close to simeria

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feeling understood: 1st artist in residence francisca alsua morchio

francisca alsua morchio

In 2015 we realized an idea that we've been having since years: A mobile residency. After being one of the artists of the Nomadic Village in Cerkno, Francisca Alsua Morchio joined us on the road for two weeks as the first artist in our itinerant residence. She travelled with us on the bus, had her atelier in the Galeria Nowhere Caravan and slept in her tent.
Francisa is a Chilenean artist and during the Nomadic Village and the residency she did collage paintings constructed with lighting gels. She made one collage on each place we stayed at, and left them for us and the Galeria Nowhere. She also left a suitcase filled with stories she had collected. Those stories went into her lovely blog transmutedstories, a read we strongly recommend!

But talking about Francisca is not possible by only mentioning her work. Francisca was the ideal travelling companion. She quickly understood why we do the Nomadic Village, embraced being part of it and supported our being on the road beyond what we could have hoped. She is one of the few people who (not without quite some struggle!) manages a great balance between being natural and emotional, and having (and standing up to) strong opinions without being shy about them.

We are thinking about calling this new residency program 'The Francisca Residency'...

Francisca's homepage

treasure hunting & visiting the sea

the cheesebus in portomaggiore

10 more empty frames, quite a find for a day. Frames have become starting points for new works. They give a pretty good definition about size and position and as we find them along our roads they carry some history within them. They can be quite influential.

Today we went treasure hunting. After we discovered that our favorite charity shop closed forever, we run into a great fleamarket (with a fantastic cheesebus) just around the corner. Then on to the next, with a small detour by the sea (it is striking, what an obligation this is, and what a sure way to encounter tourism, a very weird phenomena!).

We are heading north again and are looking forward very much to settling down for some days!

tina's view from the bed while klaus is driving

water traktor

short visit to the sea @ lido di volano

charity shop in ferrara

treasure hunting finds

location for the night

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