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How Much Craziness Can One Province Take?

“The Ill Rabbit//Crazy About Linz” was meant to open up new possibilities of perception and experience for people in the Capital of Culture, to enable them to test their tolerance and to change habitual patterns, to get more enjoyment out of life, and to make Linz a bit crazier. The big question: “How much craziness can one province take?”

The Ill Rabbit—a fairytale figure from the Pöstlingberg Grotto Railway—made the rounds in Linz, and with him, questions about habits, things that give us apparent security, about the boundaries of being sick and being alive, about sympathy, impatience and being irritated. What this all amounted to was a very creative way of approaching the subject of psychosocial health.

In Spring 2009, the project kicked off with an eccentric opening spectacle in Linz’s Volksgarten park, which was also the setting of its grand finale in October. At exhibitions in KunstRaum xtd and installations in public spaces as well as in communications offerings that gave folks an opportunity to get actively involved, The Ill Rabbit—with a little help from his artistically gifted friends from Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, Germany and Austria—made the crazy state of affairs in the Capital of Culture something that everyone could see and experience.


WHAT // exhibitions, installations, interventions
WHEN // March – October 2009
WHERE // Public spaces, KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd
www.derkrankehase09.com

IDEA / CONCEPT / REALISATION // Susanne Blaimschein, Beate Rathmayr/ KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd
CARTOON CHARACTERS // Clemens Kogler
PARTICIPANTS // Astrid Benzer, Christoph Mayer, Marko Mäetamm, Karin Fisslthaler, Tea Mäkipää, Lottie Child, Anja Vormann/Gunnar Friel, Anne Lorenz, freundinnen der kunst, Beate Göbel, Thomas Pohl




Video by Clemens Kogler

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The ill Rabitt: Programme August - October 2009 (PDF)

WHAT // Interventions in public spaces WHEN // June 2009 WHERE // at various public locations in Linz Die Störenden (the disrupters) are people of all age groups. They come voluntarily; they...
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WHAT // Installation in a public space WHEN // March 21 – October 10, 2009 WHERE // Danube riverbank, near the New Cathedral, Volksgarten, Hauptplatz Cabanas will be set up at several public spa...
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WHEN // March 21 – October 10, 2009 WHERE // various public spaces in Linz The “Bunnymobile” hurries from exhibition to reading, from opening to speech, serving as a small, mobil...
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WHEN // March 21 – October 10, 2009 WHERE // KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, Haus der Geschichten, Kinderinfopoint 100 rabbit heads can be borrowed by anyone—individuals or groups&mdash...
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WHAT // Interventions in Public Spaces WHEN // June – September 2009 The freundinnen der kunst (girlfriends of art) artists’ collective has created interventions and performances as an app...
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WHAT // Interventions/Installations in public spaces WHEN // September 2009 WHERE // at various public locations in Linz (VOEST, the parks along the banks of the Danube, the main train station, the ...
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01.03.2009 - 10.10.2009
Die Schwester des kranken Hasen // Martina Kornfehl /A The Ill Rabbit from the Grotto Railway has gone off to Linz. Now, his place has been taken by his pink sister—with her arm in a sling ...
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21.03.2009
“In the Garden of the Ill Rabbit”by Judith Richter/Mario Sinnhofer/A The opening event for the ill rabbit kicks off on Saturday, March 21 at 1 PM in KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd with t...
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22.03.2009 - 12.04.2009
Die Homebase für den Kranken Hasen 1 // KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd is the home base of The Ill Rabbit. An artificial landscape. All of the project’s artistic pr...
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25.03.2009 - 10.10.2009
Baumhaus // Gunar Wilhelm/A, Tobias Hagleitner/A : The Baumhaus (treehouse) for The Ill Rabbit provides a lively, open meeting place in the midst of the Volksgarten park. It constitutes an invitation ...
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18.04.2009 - 09.05.2009
Money Fountain // Tea Mäkipää / FIN This fountain spews forth an endless stream of money—coins in various currencies. The money fountain is a variation on a make-a-wish fountain that promises pa...
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23.04.2009 - 14.05.2009
Our Common Problem: People // Tea Mäkipää/FINThis installation on Linz’s Pfarrplatz contains three living animals that interact with each other and engage in discussions with installation visito...
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16.05.2009 - 20.06.2009
Decisions ------- Entscheidungen // Laborversion 01Christoph Mayer /D in collaboration with Claudia Grimm, Andreas Hagelüken, Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt and Harald WeltzerThis is a project about political in...
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01.07.2009 - 19.07.2009
Bad Rabbit - Bad Habit // Astrid BenzerBad Rabbit, the fashion label with attitude and urban chic, has set out on an adventurous investigative journey into the rich vocabulary of slang expletives used...
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18.07.2009 - 29.08.2009
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24.07.2009 - 16.08.2009
Instant Homebase Vol 2// KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd is the home base of The Ill Rabbit. An artificial landscape. All of the project’s artistic productions, even...
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26.08.2009 - 13.09.2009
Another day with my family // Marko Mäetamm /ESTThe subject is Marko Mäetamm relations with his family. This has to do with fears, paranoia, secrets, doubt. A case study of himself. OPENING // Au...
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05.09.2009 - 10.10.2009
Deep inside // Anne Lorenz/CHUsing the example of the Landesbibliothek (Province Library) and in cooperation with the librarians who work there, Anne Lorenz has created a video installation about the ...
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12.09.2009
Wahnsinn?! - Aus der Spur des Alltags geraten.24 Stunden: Schillerparkbewegung// Beate Göbel/D For 24 hours, Linz’s Schillerpark is transformed into a green discotheque in which passers-by ...
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23.09.2009 - 10.10.2009
Rabbits of desire // Karin Fisslthaler Sounds of the city of Linz, interviews with locals, acoustic messages and stories are processed into a 50-channel sound installation and played back through an e...
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10.10.2009
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