
Public Lectern
Best Before
The installation is essentially made up of two synergistic parts: a more open-interpretive and rundown concrete speaker’s desk with traces of an eventful history and a glass panel that contrasts with its materiality and aesthetics and links the sculpture texturally to socio-political issues.
Thererby Best Before appears on several levels: As an interactive installation that allows the viewer to playfully slip into a fictional representative role, as a dystopian historic relict from a bygone democratic era and as a commentary on the relationship between the economy and the state.
Techniques: concrete, laminated safety glass with digitally printed text, posters, spray paint
Weight: ~ 650 kg
Year: 2019
Funded by: Land Tirol
Selected by: TKI Tiroler Kultur-Initiativen
Thank you:
Eisen Blasy • Tiroler Glasmalerei • Kevin Brown • Elisabeth Medicus • Myriam Kraml • medien.kunst.tirol • David Prieth • Helene Schnitzer • Walter Stackler
Download: german accompanying text (pdf)


The opening of Best Before was accompanied by a panel discussion on democracy discourses in the context of contemporary art with penalists Yvonne Gimpel (political scientist, managing director of IG Kultur, previously working for UNESCO for 8 years) Christoph Hinterhuber (media artist) and Michael Wimmer (political and cultural scientist). The event was moderated by Martin Fritz and organized by David Prieth as well as Medienkunst Tirol and took place at BRUX Freies Theater Innsbruck.

The incomprehensible permission process by the administration was taken up by two lokal newspapers and a local magazine:
- Tiroler Tageszeitung
- Mein Bezirk
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