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)Our Common Problem: People
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Our Common Problem: People / Tea Mäkipää
Copyright: UlrichFohler
Our Common Problem: People // Tea Mäkipää/FIN
This installation on Linz’s Pfarrplatz contains three living animals that interact with each other and engage in discussions with installation visitors. Using the means made available by art, Mäkipää investigates the problem-fraught countervailing poles of nature and technology, hermit-like withdrawal and urbanization, hope and hear, as well as the questionable logic of consumption and the forward projection of our dizzying development in the direction of ever more luxurious ways of life and lifestyles.
WHAT // Installation in a public space
OPENING // April 22, 2 PM
OPENING // April 22, 2 PM
DURATION // April 23 – May 14, 2009
WHERE // Pfarrplatz, Linz
WHERE // Pfarrplatz, Linz
Category: Exhibition/Installation/Intervention, Public Space
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