Literaturspaziergang ’22

A stairway to heaven made of words and stone
Literary walk to the sculptures of Symposion Lindabrunn

On Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 3 pm, the Symposion Lindabrunn association, in cooperation with Beatrice Simonsen from Kunst und Literatur (www.kunstundliteratur.at), invites you to a literary walk. It leads across the green meadow to the artworks in the sculpture park and follows contemporary texts by Manfred Chobot, Raoul Eisele, die grauenfruppe and Beatrice Simonsen.

The writers of the Graz Authors’ Assembly read and perform works inspired by the history of the site and its sculptures. Manfred Chobot already took part in the Lindabrunn Symposia in the 1970s. Back then, he was invited by Mathias Hietz. The founder of the international sculpture symposium was also inspired by the dialog between sculpture and literature. Chobot dedicates his reading to one of the early works on the site. He will talk about the first years of the symposium and read from his brand-new hyper-texts. They explore the cosmos between being and appearance, which already preoccupied the artists at the site back then.

The writers of the Graz-based performance collective grauenfruppe (Daniela Beuren, Elke Papp, Karin Seidner, Martina Sinowatz) will be performing between stone and being on April 24. Under the title “Lebende Bilder zum Steinerweichen” (Living images to soften stone), the four authors break through all material boundaries and resistances with their pleasurable associative montage technique. The artists invite the audience to listen and look, to interact, imagine and try things out, to feel closed and open forms, to grasp and think things through. The program is not set in stone.
The text by the young author Raoul Eisele refers to a more recent, non-stone work in the sculpture park. “The Village” by Mathias Mollner and Gerda Schorsch from 2010/11 is a series of small wooden houses. They stand like abandoned shells on the meadow, some sinking into the ground, others stretching their wooden bodies unruly into the sky.

Beatrice Simonsen asks about the way to heaven in her new texts. She refers to the stone sculpture by Japanese artist Shigeru Shindo. The “Ladder to Heaven” (1975) is part of the communication center. This arena created by the artists in a small quarry is still the living heart of cultural activity in Lindabrunn today.

The literary walk lasts around two hours and starts at the Hernsteiner Straße parking lot at the end of Lindabrunn.