9. 10. – 10. 10. 2022 ARTWALK: BURST YOUR BUBBLE!

"That was super, that was madness, that was brilliant, that was a dream, really! This must take place every weekend. At least in the summer. That was the madness. We were totally blown away. How do you organize it? Up to the minute - it really makes me… It makes me crazy. Well, really great - are you crazy!" – Visitor of the Artwalk.

In three sold-out ARTWALKs, we led our audience through the legendary scenery of the “Bohemian Prater” and made our research walkable. Delighted, proud, and exhausted, we want to thank all visitors, artists, and local people for the wonderful encounters!

"You guys have managed to combine history, art, and social topics. You have really engaged with the place and its history and treated both the dead and the living with respect." – Visitor of the ARTWALK

The starting point for our project was the conflicting encounter between pleasure and exploitation. On one hand, the delightfully nostalgic world of carousel, carnival stalls, and Ferris wheels; on the other hand, the green Laaer forest with its former brick ponds and its silted-up past. Nothing reminds of the maltreated "Ziegelböhm", who produced the bricks for the magnificent buildings of the Vienna Ringstrasse six days a week under partly inhumane working conditions and how they were supposed to "relax and enjoy" here in the company canteens on the seventh day.

This is where our joint research with "Inselmilieu Reportage" began: Over the past six months, we walked up to the Prater every now and then to conduct interviews with the locals. Enthusiastic visitors, owners of amusement parks and taverns, a singing toilet lady, and an amateur historian playing the hurdy-gurdy have opened our eyes to the blind spots of history. Following their biographies and anecdotes, we artistically enriched our research and made it accessible in an audio walk: At 12 stations, artistic interventions from the theater, butoh, dance, installation art, poetry, live music, performance, and pole dance made the past come alive and the present becomes history. After almost 3 hours of immersive listening, drinking Czech schnapps, playing the old organs, and a ride on the Ferris wheel, we ended the evening cozy with pumpkin soup and Sturm at the Heurigen "Zum Werkelmann".