Excalibur City is located in a no man’s land at the Czech-Austrian border. Secluded factory outlet centers, a casino, an amusement park, and curiosities such as a jet themed restaurant line up next to each other unexpectedly in the seemingly infinite vastness. Wandering through the deserted area Marc Augé’s concept of ‚non-place’ comes to mind. There’s a certain melancholic feel to the somewhat unsightly realm of Excalibur City, a remainder of a time marked by the end of communism and gleams of hope that, to date, might have been in vain.
The series was published by Morgen (AT, 2019) and BellaTriste (DE, 2019).