Programm

Festival of Regions 2009

Journey to Surinam

Exploratory journey to the front gardens of solarCity
Linz Stadt Research / social / Participation

The artist's contribution seeks out the images, meanings and dream-worlds hidden behind the strange appearance of exotic plants in people’s home gardens. What makes precisely these plants so attractive? Is it personal recollections of past experiences? Or is there a hidden desire, at least in the imagination, to travel to regions previously never reached? Similar to the travelogues of the nineteenth century, the worlds of imagination hidden behind the exotic plants growing in the gardens of the residential complex WSG are supposed to become visible on a map of imaginary journeys. To this end, the stock of exotic plants in the gardens between Orion and Andromeda Streets will be documented and their botanical names and countries of origin determined. In an improvised research station on Luna Square, drawings of the plants will be done and a world map illustrated which records, step for step, all the hitherto hidden countries and continents and dream-worlds with which the gardens are already invisibly connected.

INTERVIEW WITH ANDREA KNOBLOCH ...

Contributers:
Fachanleitung Stadtgärten Linz - Friedrich Schwarz
Gast Leonore Geißelbrecht-Taferner
Projektidee und Konzept Andrea Knobloch

Locations:
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Events:
09.05.2009, Restaurant Lunaplatzl, Lunaplatz, solarCity. Eröffnung der Pflanzenportrait-Ausstellung.
09.05.2009 until 01.06.2009, 12:00-20:00 and 16:00-20:00, Forschungsstation am Lunaplatz und Ausstellung im Restaurant Lunaplatzl
17.05.2009, 14:00, "Mensch und Natur auf Tuchfühlung - solarCity und Natura 2000 Auwald". Spaziergang mit Dr. Friedrich Schwarz, Stadtgärten Linz, Abteilungsleiter Botanischer Garten und Naturkundliche Station. Treffpunkt: Forschungsstation am Lunaplatz.
24.05.2009, 14:00, "In einer Stunde um die ganze Welt". Entdeckungsreise durch die internationale Pflanzenwelt in der Wohnanlage WSG zwischen Orion- und Andromedastraße. Dr. Leonore Geißelbrecht-Taferner (Botanikerin), Andrea Knobloch (Künstlerin) Treffpunkt: Forschungssta
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