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172 siting futurity Revisiting Hallstatt and Its Doubling Norbert Artner shares Ella Raidel’s interest in images, but he is more interested in their doubling than in what they can com- municate about a distant culture and its propensity for duplica- tion. Hallstatt Revisited I consists of ten large-scale photographs Artner took in Hallstatt See that were displayed at various out- door sites in the original Hallstatt from July 21 to October 31, 2014. Each photo was accompanied by a relatively small white poster with a map of the locations of all ten photos and the fol- lowing bilingual explanatory text by Thomas Macho, the co-su- pervisor of Artner’s PhD on Nach den Bildern. Konstruktion und Wirklichkeit [After Images: Construction and Reality] at Linz’s Art University: Seit 2012 gibt es Hallstatt nicht mehr im Salzkammer- gut, sondern auch in China. In welchem Verhältnis stehen Vorbild und Kopie, Original und Zitat? In seinen Fotogra- phien ist Norbert Artner an beiden Orten den Fragen nach Imagination und Globalisierung, Funktion und Oberfläche, Inklusion und Exklusion, Ideal und Klischee nachgegan- gen. Die Aufnahmen entstanden im Zeitraum eines Jahres in “Hallstatt See” in der chinesischen Region Guangdong. Nun sollen die Fotographien im Salzkammergut zu einer Auseinandersetzung mit der Spieglung und Verdopplung des Ursprungsorts Hallstatt einladen und inspirieren. [Since 2012, Hallstatt is no longer only to be found in the region of the Salzkammergut in Austria, but also in China. What is the relationship between model and copy, original and quotation? In his photographs Norbert Artner has pur- sued questions of imagination and globalization, function and surface, inclusion and exclusion, ideal and cliché in both by advertising Styrian Silver Fir Tree Perfume, whose ozone content was ‘guaranteed to bring the fresh, healthy mountain air into your home’” (Frank 2012, 205).