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173 #Hallstatt places. The pictures were taken over the course of a year in “Hallstatt Lake” in the Chinese region of Guangdong. Now in the Salzkammergut the photographs are intended to invite and inspire an engagement with the mirroring and duplica- tion of the original location of Hallstatt.] That the text appeared on all ten posters twice, in German and in English (and not in Chinese), is in the spirit of that engage- ment, as is the fact that the exhibition itself was duplicated. Un- der the title of Hallstatt Revisited, a second exhibition took place the following fall, from September 3-7, 2015, during the Ars Electronica festival in Artner’s hometown of Linz, the capital of Hallstatt’s province, Upper Austria. The promotional materials for Hallstatt Revisited differ somewhat from the Hallstatt Revis- ited I poster, and they reveal that the process took somewhat longer than a year: “Artist Norbert Artner’s high-quality pho- tographs taken between 2010 and 2014 recorded this process of reflection involving the two Hallstatts.”11 However, no matter the period over which they were taken, the photos clearly reflect an interest “in what possibilities of innovation are introduced by this form of imitation.” Like Raidel’s documentary, Artner’s photographic project, with its English-language title similarly gesturing towards the artist’s cosmopolitan, post-national orientation, was also struc- tured around doubling. Just as there were not one but two im- ages in the grounds of the Hallstatt museum, there were also two in the center of town, two mounted on barnlike structures in outlying housing areas, and two in carparks, which were the hardest to find. While the two remaining photographs were not obvious doubles, the one on the boatshed along the lake could be seen to match the one on the central grocery store, as both are sites of sustenance. In terms of content, the photographs from China were also mounted to reflect (on) an aspect of their 11 The Ars Electronica website was hacked while this book was going to press, and their archive (https://ars.electronica.art/festival/de/archive/), in which this quote was originally found, now only results in a loop.