refuges

Here is Jackowski's (http://www.jackowski.co.uk) refuge: a wooden hut made out of planks, protective, human, natural-a place of refuge. At the corner of the room is a mysterious contraption on wheels also made out of planks. Think of the refuge as Heidegger's Todtnauberg, his wooden cabin that he built for himself: his place of retreat and commanding height of his philosophising, his 'house of being' where he could construct 'building dwelling thinking'. In his cabin, Karl Kraus notes, Heidegger dreamed up his 'blood myths' and 'blood driven forces', as a Third Reich 'verbal accomplice of violence'
Marc Bauer in his Panorama Todtnauberg and Nimbus Des Verfehlung drawings and installations (see www.marcbauer.ch) returns to the theme of Heidegger's cabin repeatedly and includes a tiny 50cm replica of the cabin in front of a kitsch Matterhorn accompanied by readings from Jelinek; one drawing reads 'I am in a good mood-my blood is good'. Maybe this is the resonance of the thing-on-wheels in Jackowski's painting: here is Heidegger's wooden refuge and within it a mobile death camp device made out of the same materials. Consider a further (top right) representation in wood of Anselm Kiefer which he calls sternenlager or 'star camp';
the image is of the numbered boxes in his studio cellar containing work in progress; the image also comments, ironically, on efforts to classify stars (which are forever forming and exploding) into little boxes. Two visions in wood: the preferred location for Todtnauberg (50cm) is within one of Kiefer's little numbered boxes.