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The first openings are already on the agenda a day before the Festival officially gets underway.
The vernissage of “Hybrid Creatures and Paradox Machines” is set for 8 PM at Architekturforum Oberösterreich. A total of four exhibition venues (Architekturforum Oberösterreich, the Train Station, Brucknerhaus, Hauptplatz) will be settings of artistic installations dealing with robotics, bionics and bio-engineering.
The artists who have come up with these ideas have given free rein to their creativity. “Blanket Project,” for example, presents robot technology with an emotional note. A robot in the form of a blanket reacts to visitors’ actions. When you lie or sit on the installation’s bed, it gently enwraps you.
In John Gerrard’s “The Ladder,” a tiny virtual figure climbs a ladder to peer out of a window into the real world and comments on the goings-on there.
Theo Jansen’s “Strandbeest” are on display on the Hauptplatz (Main Square). Thanks to a cleverly designed locomotion system, these behemoths constructed out of countless lengths of PVC pipe can move about on their own powered only by the wind.
The opening of Barbara Siegel’s exhibition “derelictedATMOSPHERES” is set for 7 PM in the Landesgalerie Linz. In a 360° projection of ancient French chateaux, a combination of photography and film brings the panorama to life. A door slams shut, the blaze in the fireplace suddenly flares up—the visitor enters a morbidly charming world of things past.
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