Symposion LindabrunnA place to be for contemporary Art and Discourse in a nature environment
Symposion Lindabrunn
Meet and Greet at the Symposion Lindabrunn
The Lindabrunn Symposium invites you to discover new and old works of art and to think together about space, digitality and art. Students from the University of Applied Arts Vienna are working on making the works of art created over the last 60 years and exhibited on site tangible in analog and digital form.
How these overlap with the diverse uses of the symposium can be experienced in the future with an interactive map and cell phone app.
Two current works of sound art are also on display. They play with the various facets of the location. For the work “Annäherungen – eine Intervention in der Wiese” (site-specific installation, oral history, 2020), Christine Schörkhuber interviewed people who are closely connected to art and nature on the symposium grounds. Their voices can and should be discovered. Klaus Filip plays with the idyll of the local natural landscape. In the sound installation “Woodpecker Conference” (site-specific installation, 2020), he exaggerates the search for food by woodpeckers into artistic scores.
The art intervention Mare Nostrum by the artists’ collective umraum, consisting of Johanna Haigl, Kurt Weckel and Günter Miklenic, is made up of three installations:
Keep Distance A bright yellow canoe has run aground in the sand and tipped over. Did the escape succeed? Was someone rescued?
Broken Dreams Dreams and hopes lead people away from home. They set out to start new lives. A broken boat symbolizes the fragility of these hopes and the difficulties on the way to achieving dreams. Are they as broken as the boat?
Stranded An abandoned boat lies on a barren embankment. Did people steer it here, are they stranded or did a storm put it there? The boat is empty. No sign of life, nothing has been left behind. The hope of rescue lives on.
Augmented Reality APP
patryk senwicki & ferdinand doblhammer
This low-threshold, digitally accessible information enables both casual walkers and those familiar with the site to discover the place in a new and unfamiliar way. It is not a linear, didactic mediation, but an offer for an individual experience that follows the visitors’ own movement as they actively walk through the site and leaves it up to them to create stories and connections.
As a reflection of the hybrid space between digitality and materiality, this project therefore creates bridges between walkable cultural landscape, regional context, art-historical reference and digital knowledge production. The mapping of places is both a research and a creative-artistic activity that creates new forms of a visual and tactile experience of the cultural space.
Annäherungen – an intervention on the meadow
Christine Schörkhuber
site-specific installation, oral history, 2020 This interview-based work explores the stories of people who have a passionate connection to the grounds of the Lindabrunn Symposium. Their positions become the starting point for an outdoor installation that takes a subtle and personal approach to this multi-layered place with its different perspectives and levels of meaning.
Woodpecker Conference
klaus filip
17 woodpeckers are invited to search for grubs and worms in the black pine forest just behind the symposion building in lindabrunn. Each woodpecker is given its own tree and a score to knock on. However, the individual woodpeckers interpret their score individually, following their own idea of time and not being disturbed by the fact that we are listening.
Mare Nostrum
umraum
Mare Nostrum was a Roman term for the Mediterranean Sea. In the fall of 2013, the Italian navy launched the Mare Nostrum rescue mission. The umraum art project Mare Nostrum consists of three installations.
