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OK | MUSEUM OF THE UNDERWORLDS

There are lots of underworlds and every depth needs a center. Tiefenrausch’s point of departure is the Museum of the Underworlds, a multi-part presentation in the OK. A cultural-historical exhibition documents the history of human fascination with all things underworldly; an artistic audio installation conducts visitors through Linz’s various depths and shallows; another art project features found film footage dedicated to popular underworld myths in mainstream cinema; and students display objects that constitute the “key” to their personal underworlds.

• FRANZ ANTON OBOJES
  Innere Kerker und äußere Panzerungen (Inner Prison and Outer Armors)
  Mural painting, 2008
  
• PETER HAUENSCHILD / GEORG RITTER
  Gold, 2000
  Drawing
  
• PETER FISCHLI / DAVID WEISS
  Untitled (canal video)
  Video, 1992
  Courtesy of Galerie Sprüth/Maegers, Cologne
  
• CHRISTOPH DRAEGER / HEIDRUN HOLZFEIND
  Tales from the Underworld
  Two-part video installation, 2008
  
• ALIEN PRODUCTIONS (MARTIN BREINDL / NORBERT MATH / ANDREA SODOMKA)
  Tiefenklang I es ist viel zutage gekommen (much has come to light)
  Electromagnetic sound installation, 2008
  Artistic collaborator: Daniel Lercher
  Interviews: Isabelle Muhr
  Research: Georg Nussbaumer

MUSEUM OF THE UNDERWORLDS

A Cultural-Historical Exhibition by Brigitte Felderer

Upon entering the Museum of the Underworlds, one is immediately confronted by a wall-mounted artwork by Markus Pillhofer, who is also responsible for the design of the museum’s other rooms. This crooked, tilted “countervailing object” closes off a long, narrow passageway and, at the same time, provides entree to the subterranean domains on exhibit. The Museum of the Underworlds undertakes a fundamental investigation of the significance of the spaces of the imagination that, although situated at such close proximity, are not so easily accessible as one might think. The various different finds discovered during the process of shedding light on this history of fascination document the significance of the underworld as a central point of orientation in our understanding of the world.

Curator: Brigitte Felderer
Exhibition Designer: Markus Pillhofer
Scholarly Research, Loan Arrangements: Nora Fischer
Scholarly Assistant: Elke Sodin

KEY TO MY UNDERWORLD

Artistic and cultural-historical perspectives aren’t the only underworlds being showcased in the OK; there are also approaches on the individual level. Items on loan from local students stem from their own personal underworlds. This might be a real place or an imagined realm. Each loaned objects is the key to a young person’s underworld. Each object is accompanied by a text that puts it into context. The objects are presented in shelving systems just like in an archive, and suspended from the ceiling at the entry to the Museum of the Underworlds.