TIEFENRAUSCH – Art and Guided Tours in the Underworlds of Linz
Press Conference
10 June 2008, 10.30 a.m.
OK Center for Contemporary Art
A Project by the OK Center for Contemporary Art for Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture
- OK | Museum of the Underworlds
- Aktienkeller | Stream of Forgetting
- Landstraße | Manhole Covers
- Linz Underground | Crypts, Tunnels, Cisterns
- OK Platz | 40,000 Liters of Attersee Lake Water
TIEFENRAUSCH (rapture of the deep) is a multi-part exhibition dispersed throughout the city, a complex, multi-layered undertaking, a blend of art projects and museum objects, narratives drawn from everyday life and investigations phrased in terms of cultural scholarship, out-of-the-ordinary venues and totally pragmatic guided tours.
The point of departure is the Museum of the Underworlds in the OK. In downtown Linz,
TIEFENRAUSCH will be visible along
Landstraße, where red plastic pipes designed by Linz Art University students are replacing the conventional manhole covers. In the
Aktienkeller, OK is staging a major international art exhibition on the subject of “Remembering – Forgetting.” Plus,
TIEFENRAUSCH is offering an array of guided tours to underground sites that are usually off-limits to the general public: the system of tunnels built by the Nazis, drinking water reservoirs and the crypts of Old City churches.
A multipart catalog is being issued in conjunction with this project. In the first volume, which premiered at the exhibition’s opening, cultural philosopher
Thomas Macho touches on a broad spectrum of conceptions, locations and conditions subsumed under the heading of underworld. Volume 2 will be released in late June, and finissage.
Details:
MUSEUM OF THE UNDERWORLDS IN THE OKTIEFENRAUSCH MONDAY READINGS with Brigitte Felderer
MANHOLE COVER PROJECT LANDSTRASSE
AUXILIARY PROJECT ON DACHSTEIN MOUNTAIN
Curatorial Staff / Information Bureau / Project Associates / Press Contacts
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