Offenes Kulturhaus presents HÖHENRAUSCH.2: Bridges in the Sky

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich

OK | HÖHENRAUSCH.2
Bridges in the Sky
12 May-16 October 2011

Curatorial Team:
Genoveva Rückert, Julia Stoff, Martin Sturm,
Rainer Zendron

OK Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich
OK Platz 1;
4020 Linz, Austria
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office@ok-centrum.at
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The OK "Offenes Kulturhaus" and partners set a new milestone again with
HÖHENRAUSCH.2 (Thrill of the Heights). In addition to the exhibition center
in the OK and on the roofs of the city center, a broad network of partners
is
involved in the conceptualization and realization of this major project.

A total of 46 art projects have been realized, some of them site-specific
new
productions. The art works center around the emotional experience quality of
artistic nature events: the exhibition stages the phenomena of "air" and
"water" in an urban environment. Atmospherically tuned installations create
spaces of artistic experience along the course of the exhibition.

To begin with, Žilvinas Kempinas uses ventilators to make magnetic tapes
fly;
alongside this, Rúrí's 52 Icelandic waterfalls rush as a sound and photo
archive. One floor above, Stefan Banz covers the parquet floor of the Large
Hall of the OK with real water, thus irritating perception.

Before the passage to the outside, Lang/Baumann install an air-filled,
cylindrical bubble pushing outward through an opening. On the roof Fujiko
Nakaya transforms an unsightly car park deck into a mysterious, windy sea of
mist with countless water jets. On a large open surface behind this, Jeppe
Hein has built one of his spectacular interactive water pavilions.

Still further up, the flat roof of a shopping center dominated by
ventilators
becomes the exhibition space for Ursula Stalder's systematically arranged
finds from the Venice lagoon. In a bell tower made accessible through the
bridges by Jürg Conzett, Wolfgang Dorninger creates "false" wind noises with
the replica of a baroque wind machine (but only when it is operated by the
visitors). Re-entering the OK, visitors are greeted by Eduardo Coimbra with
a
sky panorama of neon tubes. Before the passage into the former cloister
building, the smoke machine by Pipilotti Rist generates beautiful,
short-lived
air bubbles. Pepi Maier's spiral-shaped copper-tube ice sculpture floats in
the attic of the Ursulinenhof, iced over by the moisture of the air and with
the help of a cooling machine. Following a winding entry into the north
tower,
visitors finally reach the large attic of the Ursuline church. There Gisela
Motta and Leandro Lima provide an ethereal blue hour with a hydrau ulic neon
wave. The last exhibition location leads into the nave of the church, which
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller transform into a four-part
air-sound-space with a prominent council of loudspeakers.

Laurien BACHMANN, Stefan BANZ, Erdal BULDUN, BOW-WOW, Janet CARDIFF, Eduardo
COIMBRA, Jürg CONZETT, Claudia CZIMEK, Gino DE DOMINICIS, Gerhard DIRMOSER,
Wolfgang DORNINGER, Ronald DUARTE, Jack FALANGA, Ceal FLOYER, Gianfranco
FOSCHINO, Dara FRIEDMAN, Shaun GLADWELL, Laura GLUSMAN, Shilpa GUPTA,
HAUENSCHILD / RITTER, Jeppe HEIN, HUND HORN, Zˇilvinas KEMPINAS, Mathias
KESSLER, Isabelle KRIEG, Katharina LACKNER, William LAMSON, LANG / BAUMANN,
Pepi MAIER, Angelika MIDDENDORF, Vik MUNIZ, Gisela MOTTA / Leandro LIMA,
Fujiko NAKAYA, Yoko ONO, Steve POLESKIE, Werner REITERER, Pipilotti RIST,
RÚRÍ, Michael SAILSTORFER, Eva SCHLEGEL, SERVAAS, ROMAN SIGNER, Ursula
STALDER