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It’s not mandatory, it’s not permitted … to say anything, write anything, react to anything. Cultural programs are mostly consumed passively; those partaking of them just sit around, stand around, walk around. This project reacted to this inactive state by launching new discourses and instigating response.

This initiative interlinked a number of individual Linz09 projects. Its approach was to make the city itself a setting in which to experience what went on here in the not-too-distant past. Because Linz is a place of memory and of commemoration. Because history is omnipresent here. And it’s everybody’s business: Linzers old and young, school classes, tourists, visitors, friends, guests and fans. They all posed questions, sought answers, got worked up, wrote, became enraged, were delighted or astounded. Some even laughed as they personally unraveled the threads of historical narratives, made them visible and integrated them into their daily lives. MEDIATING THE ENCOUNTER WITH MODERN HISTORY went forth in pursuit of traces of the past. Project staffers designed 10 discursive educational programs designed to make the past come alive for various age groups. From March to December 2009, children, young people and adults were invited to rediscover this city and its history.


WHAT // Mediation programms
WHEN // Throughout 2009
WHERE // In Linz and Upper Austria

IDEA / CONCEPT // Hannah Landsmann, Daniele Karasz, Adam Wieczorkowski

This book invites you to take a brief yet penetrating look at Linz – as it once was and the way it is today. Where does history come into play? What lies below the surface? And does this have an influence on us?

This book briefly highlights a variety of different projects. Some of them deal explicitly with history; others only upon very close consideration. Even if some of the projects didn’t originate in Linz, their display or performance here makes them a part of this place.
This book focuses on details of these projects and, in doing so, teaches quite a bit about the city and its people, and perhaps a little bit about humankind in general. But this is something you have to learn yourself—by reading the book, going through the city, and taking part some of the events described here.

In other words, this book is an all-in-one compendium: a guidebook, a program and a user’s manual for the city and for personalized approaches to dealing with its past.

WHAT // book
WHEN // Presetation 27 February 2009
IDEA / CONCEPT / AUTHOR // Niko Wahl
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