Fine Arts: Sculpture and Environment

Show your wounds!

Portfolio review with Prof. Karin Kasböck and Prof. Christoph Maria Leitner

On site: University of Art and Design Linz, Domgasse 1, ground floor, Sculpture and Environment Studio, room DO.EG.03

We cook for you!

There will be drinks and snacks, and we'll cook for all of us.

On site: University of Art and Design Linz, Domgasse 1, ground floor, Sculpture and Environment Studio, room DO.EG.03

For the expansion of the A26—the so-called Westring motorway through the middle of the city—hundreds of trees in Bergschlösslpark have been felled since the beginning of December under heavy police protection. Activists protested against the deforestation, occupied trees, slept in hammocks, set up a climate camp, and attempted to prevent the felling through civil disobedience. However, the police presence secured the operation and the felling was carried out.
In our studio, we are building a memorial monument from some of the felled and partially chopped tree remains from Bergschlösslpark, complemented by documentary photos and equipment from the protest.

On site: University of Art and Design Linz, Domgasse 1, ground floor, Sculpture and Environment Studio, room DO.EG.03 and 4th floor, room DO.04.30

A requiem for the trees cut down in the 300-year-old Bergschlösslpark in Linz. The trees had to be cut down to make way for a billion-euro highway project, which will degrade the quality of life in Linz by diverting more and more traffic into the city center. Some of the trees were 200 years old. Not only is it an important recreational area for the city, it is also a habitat for numerous bird species, bats, and other mammals and insects. 

The music was recorded on December 4—day 3 of the clearing—and on December 18—two weeks later at the tree cemetery. It is an expression of anger, frustration, sadness, and hopelessness.

Location: University of Art and Design Linz, Sculpture and Environment Studio, Domgasse 1, Ground Floor, Room DO.EG.03

Performative co-existence. “Forest of Bliss.paper-cut” 

Inspired by Robert Gardner's film Forest of Bliss(1986) and The Cave, built by the Department of Plastic and Environment. Series of collective embodied practices on moving and listening, practicing social together with paper.

On site: University of Art and Design Linz, Domgasse 1, ground floor, Sculpture and Environment Studio, room DO.EG.03 and 4th floor, room DO.04.30

Performative co-existence. “Forest of Bliss.paper-cut” 

Inspired by Robert Gardner's film Forest of Bliss(1986) and The Cave, built by the Department of Plastic and Environment. Series of collective embodied practices on moving and listening, practicing social together with paper.

On site: University of Art and Design Linz, Domgasse 1, ground floor, Sculpture and Environment Studio, room DO.EG.03 and 4th floor, room DO.04.30

Performative co-existence. “Forest of Bliss.paper-cut” 

Inspired by Robert Gardner's film Forest of Bliss(1986) and The Cave, built by the Department of Plastic and Environment. Series of collective embodied practices on moving and listening, practicing social together with paper.

On site: University of Art and Design Linz, Domgasse 1, ground floor, Sculpture and Environment Studio, room DO.EG.03 and 4th floor, room DO.04.30

Toxic Temple, performance by Kilian Jörg and Anna Lerchbaumer

What changes when we worship the toxic as if it were religious? In these catastrophic times, can a cosmic connection be achieved through a cult of pollution? Toxic Temple is an artistic and philosophical adventure in the sticky mess of the present.
We carry our inner contradictions and destructive desires to altars. We enter wastelands instead of new territory, leaving space for artifacts—a solidarity with the facts. We encounter colorful assemblages of things that connect the familiar cosmos, shaky foundations of new divinity, sharp smells that transport us to the sublime. Garbage dumps are the new temples. In sadistic mania, we breathe in the here and now. Transformative forces are unleashed, free radicals; rituals that expose the chaos beneath the surface.

On site: University of Art and Design Linz, Domgasse 1, ground floor, Sculpture and Environment Studio, room DO.EG.03