Tiefenrausch
Tiefenrausch
Copyright: Paul Kranzler
ART AND GUIDED TOURS IN THE NETHERWORLDS OF LINZ
30 May – 13 July 08
EXHIBITION IN THE AKTIENKELLER EXTENDED UNTIL 31 JULY!
Idea / Concept: Rainer Zendron, Martin Sturm, Genoveva Rückert, With the assistance of Brigitte Felderer, alien productions, Christoph Dreager/Heidrun Holzfeind, Renate Herter, Pepi Maier
This time the objects of exploration will be the cellars, tunnels and subterranean worlds of Linz. The path leading into the underworld is dotted on the one hand with derelict places, sites fraught with memories, and with still operational underground workshops on the other. The point of departure is the ‘Museum of the Underworld’, a cultural history exhibition at the OK. Its ‘Aktienkeller’ will house a display of international contemporary art on the theme ‘Remembering and Forgetting’. In Landstraße manhole covers become the periscopes of subterranean systems. TIEFENRAUSCH enables the public to access places normally out of bounds – tunnel systems, drinking water reservoirs, the crypts of churches in the old part of the city. In the Arena Platz in front of the OK there will be a diving tower from the Attersee. All in all in all this will be a spectacular artistic gymkhana which will be staked out for visitors along kilometer after kilometer of underground passages.
- OK | MUSEUM OF THE UNDERWORLDS
- Aktienkeller | STREAM OF FORGETTING
- Landstraße | MANHOLE COVERS
- Linz Underground | CRYPTS, TUNNELS, RESERVOIRS
- OK Platz | 40,000 Liters of Attersee Lake Water
‘The Linzer underworld is known to us, if at all, only from hearsay. To make these places “accessible” and visible through the means of art, to make them articulate, to engage in conversation with the people who know these subcutaneous places like the back of their hands, and to enlarge our field of vision, our awareness, our horizon – that is the goal and the charm of TIEFENRAUSCH.’ (Martin Sturm)
WHERE //
OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich
Aktienkeller
OK Platz 1, 4020 Linz
www.ok-centrum.at
Opening hours, prices, information about guided tours: www.ok-centrum.at/tiefenrausch
COORDINATORS //
Norbert Schweizer (Head of project), Martina Rauschmayer, Aron Rynda, Michael Weingärtner (Production)
In cooperation with OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz AG , Botanischer Garten der Stadt Linz, Katholische Kirche Oberösterreich, Kunstuniversität Linz, Ferienregion Attersee