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OPEN HOUSE Starting from the city of Linz and its situation of wide-scale rebuilding as a model case, art projects are presented that reflect on urban space as a stage for global economicization and as a laboratory for alternative business models, and as a location in the charged field in between an official understanding of history and subversive appropriation. Urban spaces that were formerly defined as public and used that way, have gradually been transformed into a Cinecittà of modernist and postmodern architecture, the motor of which is driven by the interests of big business and spectacle. Parallel to continuously optimized navigation systems of illuminated advertisements and signposts, consumer statistics and diagrams of movement become increasingly significant, ultimately converging in new forms of surveillance technology and the conception of increasingly complex security measures. Artists and collectives
were invited to take part in the exhibition, who pose the concept of
the urban public sphere, the production of visual images in public space,
or the possibilities of artistic interventions for discussion with their
own forms of expression, thus dealing with relevant themes going beyond
the field of art. With the event OPEN
WEEKEND (26/27 March), the exhibition gains an additional dynamic:
an open space initiating discussions, lectures and performative projects.
The central theme is the question of the possibilities of alternative
modes of living and working in a late capitalist society. Press discussion: 11 March 2004, 10.30 a.m. Press information: Maria Falkinger, t:+43.732.784178-203, m.falkinger@ok-centrum.at |