| Argos
Walk Berlin Walk
Linz Walk Cardiff Walk
Montréal Walk Nottingham Walk
Impakt Walk
Vooruit Walk Stuttgart Walk Radio
100 Walk
 
|
September 3-5, 2005
The vocabulary of social description, past and present, brims with
mobility and displacement. Those scattered beyond the bounds of
the city have long been the subject of puzzlement and fantasy by
those within the walls, as well as a metaphor of ways of being in
the world
---John Durham Peters, exile,
nomadism and diaspora
----
Early within the month of September, 2005, a figure appears and
traverses through the city of Linz. Pulling a cart through the streets,
an outsider to the daily lifestyles
of the city's inhabitants. Using antennas made out of cans of food
from around the world, she taps into and disrupts illusions of secure
boundaries by exposing scenes of whatever needs protection, a doorway,
a baby's crib, a street, a store, etc. The cans themselves are evidences
of migratory pathways and fantasies; as artefacts from physical
places, metaphoric depictions of dream lands filled with Corinthian
pillars and sunsets over pastures, and cultural juxtapositions.
Linz Walk was commissioned by Ars Electronica for the Cyber Arts
Exhibition and won Prix Ars Electronica honorary mention within
the Interactive Art category. The work was presented in two modes,
as an installation
within the OK Centrum and a series of three street performances.
The installation featured the broadcast cart playing back performance
documentation and a video projection of an animated map, a cartographic
depiction of wireless surveillance within Linz. During the performances
the cart was removed from the gallery and used to capture and display
live feeds throughout the city.
<SEE DOCUMENTATION>
|
