Der kranke Hase / The Ill Rabbit
Copyright: Clemens Kogler
“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)Die Schwester des kranken Hasen
Die Schwester des kranken Hasen // Martina Kornfehl /A
Installativer Eingriff in das „inoffizielle“ Wahrzeichen von Linz. Grottenbahn
Copyright: Barbara Landgraf
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 imprinted with the word “substitute.” She’s filling in for him and occupying his bed at trackside. A guest book is provided to leave a personal message for the absent rabbit, who will answer via postcard on a weekly basis. At least he said he would.
WHEN // March 1 – October 10, 2009
WHERE // Grotto Railway on Pöstlingberg
WHERE // Grotto Railway on Pöstlingberg
Category: Exhibition/Installation/Intervention, Kids/Young People, Public Space
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