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)Die Homebase für den Kranken Hasen 1
Copyright: Claudia Nickl
Die Homebase für den Kranken Hasen 1 // KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd
KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd is the home base of The Ill Rabbit. An artificial landscape. All of the project’s artistic productions, events and activities will be presented here. A film relates one of its stories.
The Ill Rabbit’s burrow is located on the ground floor. It’s also the crater of a volcano. This seems to be his refuge; his footprints are everywhere to be seen. The volcano is only partially visible, having apparently erupted through the KunstRaum’s floor.
The mouth of this volcano is part of a crazy landscape. Animals, both living and stuffed, pets, animals that flee at the sight of human beings, economically useful animals—they leave traces or are actually present in the space. The gravel around the volcano seems rather peculiar. Photos, sketches, recording and statements arrayed on a large table provide a preview of what’s on tap until October 2009.
OPENING // March 21, 2009, 1 PM
RUN // March 22 – April 13, 2009
Category: Exhibition/Installation/Intervention, Kids/Young People
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