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The following audio clips from Audio Walk Gusen are transcribed in the essay in both German and English and addessed in Schult's arguments and analyses. All clips used with permission of the artist, Christoph Mayer.
[page 15, passage with Traude and a former airman]
[pages 20-22, beginning of the German version of the walk. Compare to the two clips below, to distinguish the quality of actor Julie Böwe's voice when narrating in her native language, as Schult discusses on page 19 of the essay]
[pages 20-21, passage from the beginning of the walk]
[page 22, "I've searched for memories"]
[bottom of page 22 onto page 23, passage of narrator visualizing the past]
[page 28, "It's so quiet here"]
[page 28, "you just can't forget"]
Christoph Mayer's The Invisible Camp—Audio Walk Gusen
by Tanja Schult
Art historian Tanja Schult is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden, where she teaches Visual and Material Culture. The love of her research life are monuments of all shapes, even invisible ones as Christoph Mayer's Audio Walk Gusen. [Schult's faculty page]
