TIEFENRAUSCH - Art and Tours through the Underworlds of Linz

Press conference, 28 March 2008

30 May – 13 July 2008
Opening: Thurs., 29 Mai 2008

A project of the OK Offenes Kulturhaus Upper Austria with Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture

Art to the city!! After Schaurausch – a seeing spree in the Landstraße, the main shopping street of Linz, follows Tiefenrausch – "Rapture of the Deep". OK, Linz09 and with them numerous artists and two renowned cultural studies experts penetrate into the depths, the tunnels and underground worlds of Linz. There they encounter sites of remembrance and of death, but also active subterranean productions sites that supply us and the city invisibly, subcutaneously, so to speak.

The project consists of five parts:
A broad cultural-historical entry porthole is provided by the Museum of the Underworlds in the OK. In the extensive tunnel system of the Aktienkeller, installations and videos by international artists merge into an impressive "Stream of Forgetfulness". In the Landstraße of Linz, artistically arranged plastic tubes replace the cast iron manhole covers as entrance to the underworld of the city. Finally, Tiefenrausch offers an extensive range of tours to interesting underground places that are normally closed to the public (crypts, Danube culverts, water reservoirs). A special attraction in the OK Platz is a diving tower with water from the lake Attersee.

Curator Team: :
Rainer Zendron, Martin Sturm, Genoveva Rückert
In collaboration with Brigitte Felderer, alien productions, Christoph Dreager/Heidrun Holzfeind, Renate Herter, Pepi Maier
Project Supervisor: Norbert Schweizer

Publications
A three-volume publication will be published for Tiefenrausch: 2 exhibition guides and a theory volume, for which the renowned philosopher and cultural studies scholar Thomas Macho has been engaged.

Tiefenrausch Info Office::
All information and tour reservations

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich
OK Platz 1, 4020 Linz
T: +43.732.784178-555, office@ok-centrum.at
www.ok-centrum.at/tiefenrausch

2 nights in 3* or 4* hotel with breakfast, Linz City Ticket,
Tiefenrausch-Package (tour through the OK Museum of the Underworlds, visit to the exhibition in the Aktienkeller, tour through the crypts of the city center, excursion to water reservoir or Danube culverts and night screening at the Moviemento program cinema)
Per person in double room (3* hotel 105 Euro, 4* hotel 125 Euro)
Information & Reservations:
TouristInfo, Hauptplatz 1, 4020 Linz, Tel. +43 (0)732/7070-1777, Fax +43 (0)732/772873
e-mail:tourist.info@linz.at

Project Partners:
OK Offenes Kulturhaus Upper Austria
Director: Martin Sturm
http://www.ok-centrum.at
Project Supervisor: Norbert Schweizer
OK Platz 1, 4020 Linz
T: +43.732.784178

Linz 2009 – Kulturhauptstadt Europas OrganisationsGmbH
Artistic Director: Martin Heller
www.linz09.at
Gruberstraße 2, 4020 Linz
T: +43.732.2009

Download:

40.000 Liters of Attersee
Downstairs Linz Tours
Landstrasse Manhole Covers
Stream of Forgetfulness
Museum of the Underworlds