you'll never walk alone



	Football and Fan Culture 9 June - 9 July 2006, 9 p.m PRESS

Bilder: Fanarchiv "Progetto Ultra", IT	Starting June 9th there will be excitement and prayers, tears and shouts of jubilation, fist fights and dancing, racist jibes and anti-racist agitation: The World Cup inflames the passions of millions. The O.K Center for Contemporary Art traces the enormous emotional impact of fandom and positions art, film, documentation, the self-aestheticization of fans and fan commerce in a highly charged relationship. You‘ll never walk alone - the exhibition named after the legendary battle hymn from Liverpool additionally seeks to reconstruct changes in the concept of fans through a reflection on the space of the stadium: from the everyday cultural rituals of the crowd, through hooligan branding and all the way to domestication in the "disneyfied" and rigidly monitored entertainment arenas of the present. Stephen Dean FR/US, Josef Dabernig /AT, Massimo Furlan /CH, Julie Henry /GB, Jamie Holman /UK, Peter Hörmanseder /AT, Kurt Lackner /AT, Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer /AT, Antoni Muntadas /ES, Grazia Toderi /IT Auftragsarbeiten von: Wolfgang Dorninger /AT, Barbara Musil & Gunda Wiesner/AT, Antonio Ortega /ES Objects an photographs from "Progetto Ultra", IT fan archive, Gerd Dembowski’s /DE and Dieter Brasch’s /AT privat archives, the collection Klaus Littmann /CH and Claude Pascal‘s /CH record collection. Curators: Thomas Edlinger & Martin Sturm AUSSENFELD Exhibitions on the 2006 World Cup in Upper Austria. Teamwork by the O.K Center for Contemporary Art with the Lebzelterhaus Vöcklabruck, the Gallery of the City of Wels, and the Lokal-Bühne Freistadt. 9 June – 9 July 2006 Local-Bühne Freistadt WM Studio Who is not familiar with them – the busy TV reporters and enthusiastic football commentators? During the World Cup the Local-Bühne Freistadt takes a different track and turns the screen analysis over to artists. Before, after and during the game. Surprising insights and interesting moves are guaranteed. With Gustavo Artigas /MX, Ingeborg Lüscher /DE, Paul Pfeifer /US and others. 10 June – 9 July 2006 Lebzelterhaus, Vöcklabruck Außenfeld A white ballet with brown spots in the football changing room, an Association for Ball Disruptions illuminating the connections between football product design and development policies, a chill-out zone with an interactive table football game. Political, economic, playful: the Lebzelterhaus presents three unusual artistic approaches to the "phenomenon of football". With Chris Müller /AT, Mario Sinnhofer /AT, Gerd Trautner /AT 4 July - 13 August 2006 Gallery of the City of Wels football-Free Zone In conjunction with the World Cup, football has become socially acceptable; the hype does not even spare artists and art institutions. The Gallery of the City of Wels counters this overkill of "football art" with an "anti-football zone". With Ol /DE, Burghardt Fritsche /DE, G.R.A.M. /AT, Sasha Pirker & Thomas Hamann /AT The World Campionship 2006 in the Moviemento OPEN AIR CINEMA!