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)Decisions --- Entscheidungen / Laborversion 01
Copyright: Gerlinde Miesenböck
Decisions ------- Entscheidungen // Laborversion 01
Christoph Mayer /D in collaboration with Claudia Grimm, Andreas Hagelüken, Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt and Harald Weltzer
This is a project about political incorrectness and the observation of the development of such thoughts and acts. It is a journey inside an array of absolutely white spaces entered serially, one that wrenches observers out of the outside world and the accustomed referential frameworks of their own perception.
This is a project about political incorrectness and the observation of the development of such thoughts and acts. It is a journey inside an array of absolutely white spaces entered serially, one that wrenches observers out of the outside world and the accustomed referential frameworks of their own perception.
WHAT // Spatial installation
WHERE // KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd
OPENING // May 15, 7 PM
RUN // May 16. – 20. June 2009
Category: Exhibition/Installation/Intervention
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