Linz09 Shuttle Bus: Free Transportation to HAMMERWEG and Back
Press Information
19 February 2009
The bus has room for 7 passengers. The shuttle service is FREE OF CHARGE.
Shuttle service timetable:
| OUTBOUND Linz-Traun | RETURN TRIP Traun-Linz | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st RUN | 11.30 AM | 1st RUN | 1:30 PM |
| 2nd RUN | 1 PM | 2nd RUN | 3 PM |
| 3rd RUN | 2:30 PM | 3rd RUN | 5 PM |
www.hammerweg.at
HAMMERWEG
A Temporary Museum Showcases Art and Everyday Life in a Working-Class Housing Complex
A working-class housing complex has morphed into an art museum, rooms in which people used to dwell converted into exhibition spaces, and their inhabitants made over into actors.
Most of the apartments in Hammerwegsiedlung are already vacant. For a few weeks, they’ll be serving as a museum designed by artists who grew up in these projects or whose lives centered on them for extended periods of time. They’ve all since moved on; now, they’re returning for a brief stay. Their artistic efforts deal in direct or associative fashion with this specific place, with the life that was lived out here, with what still is, and with what the deserted flats have to say to us.
The outcome consists of unsentimental reminiscences elaborated in words and images, through the manipulation of physical objects and sound installations. A museum living on borrowed time as a requiem for a once-vibrant setting for human cohabitation. Exhibits detailing how people dealt with these circumstances, what it was like to live at such close quarters, how 10 people could inhabit three rooms, how they set it up, how they stuck it out. All related by the remaining residents in video documentaries and on the basis of photos, furniture and objects they’ve made available.
As soon as the last resident dies, this housing project will be torn down. Demolishing it won’t just spell the end of the buildings and their appurtenant front gardens in this city that has gradually merged with Linz; it will also mean the disappearance of a proletarian microcosm and the culture of everyday life that was an inherent part of it.
Additional information is online at www.hammerweg.at.
Contact:
Alenka Maly (project director): 0043 (0)664 12 00 842 oder hammerweg@liwest.at
