Linz. City in Luck

Press Conference
Wednesday, 03. June 2009

LINZ. CITY IN LUCK sets out on a search for footprints. Roughly 100 interviews with Linzers, a documentation of important events, the analysis of a number of the city’s strands of development and a presentation of relevant objects will be brought together at Museum Nordico to become part of the collective memory of the city. The exhibition will be organised as a residential house. For instance, the perspectives of the very young growing up in the city of steel for instance are documented in the children’s room; the heavy armchairs in the sitting room are part of the documentation of the role played by industry; the study becomes the scene where new and more flexible cultural policies are being negotiated; and in the bathroom the Capital of Culture is applying make-up. Eleven thematic strands run through LINZ. CITY IN LUCK, with the bandwidth ranging from the diversification of Linz’s urban identity and its image – “Linz stinks” or “A city lives it up” to the debates on nationalisation vs privatisation with reference to voestalpine AG, and the phenomenon of the youth cultural movement.

For additional information about this project:

http://www.linz09.at/en/projekt-2106342/linz_stadt_im_glueck.html

Tel +43 / (0)732 / 2009-37
Fax +43 / (0)732 / 2009-43
pia.leydolt@linz09.at