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Linz09 celebrated a few odd anniversaries, recalled bizarre occurrences and marked them with performances, installations and sculptures.

We went ski jumping on Linz’s Pöstlingberg mountain and commemorated the coldest day of the last century with a round of chilled cocktails. We celebrated the first movie screening and admired the reproduction of an appearance of the Northern Lights mistaken for an enemy attack back in 1938. We gaped in amazement at a dancing horse in the Cowboy Museum and at Linz’ oceangoing fleet, and recalled the controlled demolition of a high-rise on Harter Plateau. We browsed a newspaper written in Johann Puchner’s universal language, marked the 84th year of seaplane service, listened in on the odd odyssey of Georg Peyer, and marveled at the Indian elephant that paraded through Linz in 1500. Finally, we rode our bicycle indoors, as was usual 142 years ago in Linz’s Velodrome, inquired into the origins of the Goethekreuzung, and indulged in aesthetic delights while others were being shipped off into forced exile in Linz.
The project’s intention was to recall events the accounts of which have been passed down by word-of-mouth over the years, as well as to address historical incidents that have become cliché-ridden, to shift them into a new light and to expand on them with a mosaic of narratives derived from everyday life in Linz. The result was a series of charming, mostly small-scale commemorations of 15 different historical occasions. These anniversaries were odd both in the sense of the event’s peculiar nature and the “uneven” number of years that have passed since they occurred. Each celebrated one of real life’s lost & found moments and made people cognizant of some extraordinary products of everyday life in the city.


WHAT // Celebrations, performances, installations, addresses, readings....
WHEN // February 14, June 7, July 19 and September 20, 2009
WHERE // Throughout Linz

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