Maschek on Flickr

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Wo? Wenn nicht alle da! / Thats the Way to do it! / Maschek

11.11.2009, Hafenhalle09 - maschek (AT): 09.09.09

Television manipulates the world. maschek manipulate television. Therefore maschek manipulate the world. At least for a day. 09/09/09, the ninth of September 2009, provides the starting point for this media Kasperl theatre.

Music: Just Banks

Ö-Slam on Flickr

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Ö-Slam

3rd Austrian Poetry Slam Championship 23./24.10.2009 @ Posthof, Linz

Linz09 Podcast #08

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3rd Austrian Poetry Slam Championship 23./24.10.2009 @ Posthof, Linz

Doppelgänger

From puppets to robots , from shadows to animation: a festival

EIN PUPPENHEIM / A DOLLS HOUSE (Hafenhalle09)
Vegard Vinge and Ida Müllers cycle of Ibsen plays presents a radical view of the Norwegian psyche through their vibrant and highly subjective productions of their national poet. Vinge and Müllers uncompromising and unique theatrical vocabulary mixes opera, splatterfilm, puppet-theatre, cartoon and performance. It is theatre
as ritual and exorcism.

Bibliothek der 100 Sprachen on Flickr

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Linz09 Podcast #07

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Bibliothek der 100 Sprachen / Library of 100 languages

The Library of 100 Languages is scheduled for the period between October 2 and November 30 in the library container at Schillerplatz square. Especially citizens of Linz with a migratory background, that is, roughly one fourth of this city's population, are invited to provide books on loan in their respective mother-tongue.

This "language treasure trove" is meant to reflect reading habits, offer insights into mostly strange worlds, and above all become a strong signal for a multicultural Capital of Culture. Loan one book in your mother-tongue and make the Library of 100 Languages a strong signal for a multicultural Capital of Culture!

http://www.bibliothekder100sprachen.at

Music by: Just Banks

Bibliothek der 100 Sprachen / Library of 100 languages

The Library of 100 Languages is scheduled for the period between October 2 and November 30 in the library container at Schillerplatz square. Especially citizens of Linz with a migratory background, that is, roughly one fourth of this city's population, are invited to provide books on loan in their respective mother-tongue.

This "language treasure trove" is meant to reflect reading habits, offer insights into mostly strange worlds, and above all become a strong signal for a multicultural Capital of Culture. Loan one book in your mother-tongue and make the Library of 100 Languages a strong signal for a multicultural Capital of Culture!

http://www.bibliothekder100sprachen.at

Music by: Just Banks

Linzerauge / Linzer Eye

A platform in the Danube, in front of the new AEC, gives us new perspectives on the city in 2009.

Music by: Just Banks

Linzerauge / Linzer Eye on Flickr

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A platform in the Danube, in front of the new AEC, gives us new perspectives on the city in 2009.

See this sound

Versprechungen von Bild und Ton / Promises in Sound and Vision.

An exhibition focusing on the interplay of sounds and images, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz.

Klangwolke 2009 - Flut

Fabulous creatures make their way through the city, transforming it into a miraculous biosphere with the power to save – or to destroy.

In 2009 Linz is to be flooded – the Klangwolke is weaving the city into the fabric of one of humanity’s oldest narratives. Floods of water, floods of information, floods of humanity.

Music by: www.myspace.com/skizzoat

Klangwolke 2009 on Flickr

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Click above to see all 29 photos of Klangwolke 2009 - Tiere.

"Der kranke Hase" - "The ill rabbit"

How Much Craziness Can One Provincial Town Stand? asks The Ill Rabbit before heading off in search of answers during the Capital of Culture year.

We followed a crew of "Ill Rabits" exploring and irritating the central railway station.

Music by: www.myspace.com/skizzoat

Theaterlust 2 - Nieuwzwart

The main deck of the Ars Electronica Center provides a stunning setting for the opening of theatre mania2: sunburn with a new piece by Wim Vandekeybus and his company Ultima Vez, entitled nieuwZwart. Vandekeybuss work is renowned for its intense energy and focus on movement beyond the physical vocabulary of traditional dance. This latest piece features music by Mauro Pawlowski, singer and guitarist of Deus, who will perform live accompanied by two other musicians.

Theaterlust 2: Sonnenbrand (Opening)

"Theatre mania is back! The journey continues."

The opening started 4000 meters up in the sky over Linz - Nationalratspräsidentin Mag. Barbara Prammer was the hero of the day, because she was more brave than Intendant Martin Heller, who sent Ulli Fuchs instead ...

Theaterlust 2 on Flickr

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Academy of the Impossible

Musical exchange and dialogue / mix & match

Can three Flemish musicians and six local participants compose a piece of music together in a few hours? Mauro Pawlowski from Belgian band Deus and his colleagues Jeroen Stevens and Elko Blijweert took up the challenge on Sunday 26th July 2009!

Academy of the Impossible on Flickr

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Akustikon - World of hearing

European Research and Education Center for the Sustainable Development of Acoustic Space.

Music: www.myspace.com/skizzoat

Linz09 Podcast #05

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AKUSTIKON - WORLD OF HEARING
European Research and Education Center for the Sustainable Development of Acoustic Space.

We want to thank Mr. Klemens Pilsl who guided us through the
"Akustikon" and gave us interesting information about the installations.

Bellevue - The Yellow House

Cultural life in Linz´ Bindermichl and Spallerhof neighbourhoods will revolve around a brand new hub. Bellevue is the name of this temporary architectural landmark, a wooden structure thats gone up over the last few weeks above the portal of the Bindermichl expressway tunnel.

Kulturbaden on Flickr

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Kulturbaden Ottensheim

KULTURBADEN . OTTENSHEIM . KEHRWASSER

Theatrical walking-tour at the Danube.

The Culture Bathing project invites you to partake of the Danube in a utopian, off-beat setting — strolling its banks and swimming its waters. Summertime theatre outings let you experience the culture beyond the Capital of Culture.

80+1 - A journey around the world

Around the world to come in 80 days: Turn up in Linz´ Hauptplatz or at the new Ars Electronica Center and join the expedition.

HÖHENRAUSCH - Kunst über den Dächern von Linz

With Höhenrausch the OK achieves take-off and is up and away to a new climax.
From the crowded spaces of the inner city you are transported to an attractive high plateau.
The OK will serve as “heaven’s gate”. An exciting circuitous path, an ingenious walkway system combining viewing points, stairways, plateaus and bridges. Linz – so close to the skies.

Music: www.myspace.com/chillillmusic

Höhenrausch on Flickr

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YES09 - Finals

Soccer teams from past and future capitals of culture meet in Linz for the Youth European Soccer Cup 09 - Youth European Soccer.

We´ve been to the finals on monday June 1st .2009 and watched the match Essen vs. Albufeira.

Linzfest 2009

Donaupark, open air festival

performing acts in the video:
Los Torpedos
JAN DELAY & DISKO NO.1
Texta Soundsystem (Ars Electronica Sky Loft)
Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet (Stadtwerkstatt)

YES09 - youth european soccer

Soccer teams from past and future capitals of culture meet in Linz for the Youth European Soccer Cup 09 Youth European Soccer. We´ve been at the kick-off on saturday, 30.05.2009 and watched the first thrilling match Tallinn vs. Essen!

Music: http://www.myspace.com/skizzoat

Subversiv Messe / Subversive Fair

(14.-17.05. 2009, Hafenhalle09, Linz)

COUNTER CULTURE AND RESISTANCE TECHNOLOGY FAIR
A project by Social Impact within the frame of Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture.

As the first trade fair for counter culture and resistance technology the Subversive Fair presents recent projects/actions/works ...and poses questions: which inventions make resistance easier? Which ideas undermine the system? Where are revolutionary forces lurking? What can we do to successfully dissolve hegemonies?

We´ve been there -
captured impressions, inspiration and information;
Made buttons and interviews;
Collected statements and stickers.

Projects in this video:
www.guerrillagardening.org
www.antipreneur.de
www.radicalatm.com.ar
www.bikekitchen.net
www.stickeraward.info

subversivmesse.net
www.social-impact.at

Music by: JUST BANKS

Linz09 Podcast #04

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Roll up roll up! CIRCUS is here, with 100 performances.
CIRCUS – a magical venue with terrific music and the show that brings you face to face with great musicians and artists. Sound a fanfare!

We´ve been to the premiere on May 11th 2009. Watch the first spectacle in the circus ring - Supercussions (Vienna) - COMIX.

Circus

Roll up roll up! CIRCUS is here, with 100 performances.
CIRCUS – a magical venue with terrific music and the show that brings you face to face with great musicians and artists. Sound a fanfare!

We´ve been to the premiere on May 11th 2009. Watch the first spectacle in the circus ring - Supercussions (Vienna) - COMIX

Circus on Flickr

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HIDE - surveillance free city tours

HIDE - surveillance free city tours
www.ausblenden.net

Have you ever tried to walk through your city without beeing captured by a surveillance camera?
On sunday, 10th of May 2009, we accompanied the first "hidden" guided tour through the centre of Linz.

A group of 11 people - equipped with white uniforms and reflective shields (to protect themselves against camera surveillance) was given a crash course in the subject of surveillance and monitoring of public space.

The 2 guides, Ulrike Hager and Christian Korherr - dressed in red uniforms - provided them with information, self-protective skills and confronted them (and everybody who saw them move through the streets) with an ongoing topic that effects every single one of us.

An intervention that combines a double dose of irritation with a dash of humour.

Idea/concept/realisation: Social Impact in cooperation with Choreanders
www.social-impact.at

Linz09 Podcast #03

HIDE - surveillance free city tours
www.ausblenden.net



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Have you ever tried to walk through your city without beeing captured by a surveillance camera?
On sunday, 10th of May 2009, we accompanied the first "hidden" guided tour through the centre of Linz.

A group of 11 people - equipped with white uniforms and reflective shields (to protect themselves against camera surveillance) was given a crash course in the subject of surveillance and monitoring of public space.

The 2 guides, Ulrike Hager and Christian Korherr - dressed in red uniforms - provided them with information, self-protective skills and confronted them (and everybody who saw them move through the streets) with an ongoing topic that effects every single one of us.

An intervention that combines a double dose of irritation with a dash of humour.

Idea/concept/realisation: Social Impact in cooperation with Choreanders
www.social-impact.at

HIDE - surveillance free city tours on Flickr

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Parade on Flickr

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Linz09 Podcast #02

Parade - music on the move



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Parade is an artistic sound experiment and at the same time exciting entertainment - 8 music-crews from around the world made their way through Solar City, Linz to Weikerlsee. It was one big sound-collage – the encounters of different soundworlds and resonances in public spaces provide for a very special listening experience.

The audience found itself in new roles; taken by surprise, encircled, involved.

Parade opens the ears and widens the horizons of the city.

Parade - music on the move

Parade is an artistic sound experiment and at the same time exciting entertainment - 8 music-crews from around the world made their way through Solar City, Linz to Weikerlsee. It was one big sound-collage the encounters of different soundworlds and resonances in public spaces provide for a very special listening experience.

The audience found itself in new roles; taken by surprise, encircled, involved.

Parade opens the ears and widens the horizons of the city.

Kulturlotsinnen

Twelve women with a migrant background will take up their posts in Linz Mitte near Wiener Straße to invite locals as well as tourists on guided tours of Linz neighbourhoods.

It was a very nice and interesting tour with the two charming ladies Azar from Persia & Aldona from Poland. Actually the two hours passed far too quickly.

Music by: www.myspace.com/chillillmusic

Crossing Europe Nightline

Nightline - Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz, 20.-26. April 2009

Watch a selection of our impressions and various performances:
BUNNY LAKE (AT)
BENGA (UK)
DJ THE GOLDFINGER BROTHERS (CH)

www.crossingeurope.at
www.bunnylake.net www.myspace.com/bunnylakeworld
www.myspace.com/bengabeats
www.goldfingerbrothers.ch

Crossing Europe Opening

We´ve been to the 6th Crossing Europe film festival, Linz, 20.-26. April 2009

Watch the opening ceremony where the artist and filmmaker Micha Shagrir got awarded the cultural medal of upper austria and grab a slight appetizer of the brand-new production "Dobuschido - der Film" with some interesting background information the directors gave right after the premiere screening.

www.crossingeurope.at
dobuschido-der-film.quitch.net

Music: myspace.com/skizzoat

Approcher La Poussiere

On saturday (04.04.09) we went to a dance theatre performance at Posthof, Linz. The swiss crew "Alias Compagnie" enthused us with a bizarre but delicate sense of humor...

In Situ on Flickr

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In Situ

It was a sunny weekend and we decided to have a closer look on the new stencils we recognized the last weeks in various places throughout Linz. Properly equipped with a map from the IN SITU website we started our exploration. See the output of this interesting and emotional day.

Kunstpalast Backstage

Backstage in a caravan: Zooming in on Upper Austria’s writers.

On 24 March 2009 a special star-night took place in Linz: four Upper Austrian writers - Eugenie Kain, Margit Schreiner, Thomas Baum and Franzobel - gave an impression of their literarily work at the StifterHaus. After the reading lots were drawn for personal meetings with the writers. The winners will be invited to take part in intimate get-togethers, that will take place in a caravan uniquely adapted for the purpose by Messrs Juhann and Jod.

The evening faded out with colourful sparkling wine, small appetizers and a gregarious atmosphere.

(Music: http://www.myspace.com/skizzoat)

The Führer’s Capital of Culture

Art and National Socialism in Linz and Upper Austria. Cultural and everyday life between 1938 and 1945 and what happened afterwards.

This is not the first time that Linz has been at the focus of the politics of culture on a European scale. In the Nazi era the capital of the Gau of Oberdonau was transformed from a small provincial town into an industrial metropolis that tried hard to curry favour with the Fuhrer.

“…what was actually illicit about a project that was designed to turn the city of his youth into a cultural metropolis?”, asks Albert Speer in his Memoirs. Yet what was cultural life in the era of National Socialism really like? What continuities remained in place after ist end? How final did the ruptures prove after 1945? These important aspects of the cultural politics of the Nazis and of regional cultural life are showcased by this exhibition, which is curated by a team of art and contemporary historians; the catalogue is a starting point for further reading.

The issues raised include what space for maneuvre was in fact available in art, literature, theatre and music, the strategies, positions and biographies of Upper Austria’s artists, and how they have dealt and are still dealing with the “legacy” of that era in terms of cultural politics.

The exhibition at Schloßmuseum was extended until March 29.

Download the audio guides (mp3) here (scroll down to the bottom of the page).

RebellInnen

"Von einem Kampf zum Anderen" ("From One Struggle to the Next")

Experience Histories and Herstories by Bus

When did political demands first start being taken to the streets of Linz? What did these people want? How did their protesters manifest themselves?

Three bus tours—From One Struggle to the Next, Struggle, Embroidery and Roses and Papers, Work and Terms of Residence - set off in search of the traces of social activism past and present in Linz.

Get an impression of the first bus tour - „From One Struggle to the Next. (you get a chance to participate yourself on April 25, June 13, August 1, October 3)

nextComic on Flickr

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nextComic Festival

6 – 8 March 09
Ursulinenhof (festival centre), Ars Electronica Center, University of Arts Linz,
Moviemento, Grand Café zum Rothen Krebsen, MKH Wels

IDEA / CONCEPT // Gottfried Gusenbauer

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS //
MOFF Haderers feines Schundheftl - Scherz & Schund Fabrik, Nikolas Mahler’s “Flaschko” Comics prize winner, Manga made in Austria, Electrocomics Berlin, MKH Medienkulturhaus Wels, Fumetto internationales Comic Festival Luzern, Comicfestival Prag, GRRR! Festival Serbia

The interdisciplinary Festival for Comics and Cartoon Art focuses on the interrelationship shared by cartoons with film, electronic media, music and theatre.

http://www.nextcomic.org

music by Skizzo (www.myspace.com/skizzoat)

Linz vs. Vilnius

IN SEARCH OF THE CAPITAL OF CULTURE

How could anyone expect Capitals of Culture to be immune to the spirit of competition?

In a kind of paraphrase on ‘Dancing Stars of Culture’ Messrs Juhann and Jod issue invitations to experts from Linz and Vilnius to take part in five evenings, each of which is devoted to a different theme. Which city has contributed more to European culture?

The areas of literature, history, cuisine and language will be mined in a playful spirit to yield spectacular information about both cities. It will be up to the audience to decide who wins, who loses.

We went to see the literature battle FRANZOBEL (Aut) VS. LAURYNAS KATKUS (LIT). Check out the video so find out who´s the proud winner - Linz or Vilnius?

Odd Jubilees on Flickr

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Odd Jubilees

It is the obscure jubilees rather than the obvious ones that make the most effective vehicles for bizarre stories, and traditional celebrations stand to gain a great deal from performances, installations and sculptures.
Let’s go ski-jumping on Pöstlingberg! Let’s commemorate the coldest day of the last century!

Pixel Hotel on Flickr

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Pixelhotel

Pixelhotel invites its guests to spend their stay in Linz residing in not-your-everyday accommodations — in a Pixelhotel providing a very unconventional sort of lodging. The individual rooms and suites are dispersed throughout the entire city. Here, a room’s situated in an old storefront; there, it’s in a former workshop set on a backstreet courtyard or on a ship. All over town, there are interesting but unused premises that are being converted into hotel rooms in conjunction with this urban development and architectural project. They’re in nice residential areas, downtown, industrial zones and working-class neighborhoods—after all, every part of town has its stories to tell and the Pixelhotel lets guests experience them right up close.

The Playaz Universe / Good Night Stuff

3 floors with DJs & MCs (Drum'n'Bass, Reaggae & Dancehall, Jungle & Breaktbeat) - a Linz09 project. Get some impressions of a party night in the cultural capital 09.

Linz09 Podcast #01

The Playaz Universe
presented by Seriouz Seriez & Good Night Stuff
Posthof, Linz / 31.01.09.

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We asked several people to give us a word or a short statement about Linz09 spontaniously.

The result is a soundcollage with different impressions and opinions. Check it out for yourself.

Music: MAikal X (NL)

GOOD NIGHT STUFF - Pets n' Guns n' Roses

FR 23 JAN 2009 - Musical treats by and with plants, animals and machines - with Gangpol (FR), Apparat Hase (DE), DJ Lady Coconut - Venue: Grand Hotel Cafe zum Rothen Krebsen

Constanza Macras / Dorkypark - "Hell on Earth"

Hell on Earth: January 24th to 25th 2009 @ Hafenhalle09 Linz

Jerôme Bel - "The Show must go on"

Jérôme Bel received a Bessie Award for the performances of The show must go on in New York in 2005. See it at Posthof from Februayr 2 to 4.

Theaterlust 1: Schneesturm

Premiere of "Mefisto for ever" in the new "Hafenhalle 09". Unfortunately it was not allowed to shoot the performance, but still you get some nice impressions.

Theaterlust 1: Schneesturm

Photos of the premiere of "Mefisto for ever" in the new "Hafenhalle 09".

Red or blue?

"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." (The Matrix, 1999)

Kunstpalast_Onstage January 2nd

Linz 09 Opening Ceremony New Year's Eve

Edit: Now also available in stunning HD!

Where to find linznullneun

myspace.com/linznullneun
flickr.com/photos/linznullneun
youtube.com/user/linznullneun
twitter.com/linznullneun

Yah!

Linz 09 Opening ceremony

Photos of the Linz 09 opening ceremony that took place on New Year's Eve 2008 / 2009.

Linz 09 Pre-opening

Impressions of Linz only hours before the big opening ceremony. Linz is the cultural capital of Europe in 2009!