10 letters from Furka Pass | 10 Briefe vom Furkapass Labour colonial legacies

colonial legacies

conceptual writing

given the dense legal terminology and the international political context

Chapters on public space

10 letters from Furka Pass | 10 Briefe vom Furkapass Labour colonial legaciesMemories of the Furka Pass and its winding mountain road date back to Cornelia Blatters childhood summers, when her family would drive over the pass on their way to Alpine vacations. The summit always held a sense of solitude. In 1997, she returned for a ten day stay at Furkablick as part of FurkArt, where she wrote letters to lost loved onessome deceased, others who had drifted awayand released them on balloons. Their destination remains unknown.