Ludwig Wittgenstein
There Where You Are Not illuminates Wittgenstein's lifelong search for his
vocation, for his place in the world. A biographical collage by Michael Nedo, a
photographic sketch by Guy Moreton, and a poetic album by Alec Finlay illustrate
Wittgenstein's wanderings from Vienna to Cambridge via Berlin and Manchester,
back to Austria, and finally back to Cambridge, as well as his search for a
place to write in Norway and Ireland – a topography of Wittgenstein's life and
work (from the publisher Black Dog Publishing).These photographs were made following an invitation from the artist and poet Alec Finlay to collaborate on a project that would explore the topography and the character of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical thinking during his self-imposed retreat to the remote west coast of Norway between 1913 and his death in 1951. The photographic works were exhibited in Germany and Ireland (with Alec Finlay) in 2004; at the John Hansard Gallery Southampton in 2005, (with Jeremy Millar and Alec Finlay); and in the Brijuni Archipelago Croatia in 2010 – visited by the Wittgenstein family at the turn of the 20th century.