On the threshold, Fotoinstallation (Digitaler Print auf Meshgewebe, 100x80cm, 2021)

For her personal contribution to the project Sharing Water Anne Glassner returned to the landscape of the Waldviertel, the region she grew up in. Close to her parents home, the European watershed separates the Danube basin from the region of Gmünd, Schrems and Litschau which are connected to the Elbe basin by the Czech Moldau system. It is economically spoken a rather disadvantaged region which suffered from isolation and a impermeable border to Czechoslovakia during Cold War.

During her sleeping performance at the watershed, Anne Glassner explored the qualities of experiencing a threshold – both the geographical threshold of river systems and the thresholds of the sleep-wake cycle. Thus she connects different interpretations of the term “watershed”: the figurative meaning of it being a threshold, a turning point, a decisive moment…

photos: Regina Hügli