opening: Sat. July 29th, 5pm

BUMBUM / Raumteiler Linz: Sun. July 30th, 3pm

exhibition: Aug. - Oct. 2023

with new works by:

Elisabeth Falkinger, Luïza Luz, Antje Majewski, Otucha Collective, Anne Steinhagen
curated by Lena Reisner

The annual flora pondtemporary exhibition takes place around the monastery ponds in the center of St. Florian. Several ponds for fishing and breeding are home to various species of fish such as carp, tench, whitefish, rainbow trout, brown trout and char. Dragonflies hover over the water near the banks and water striders chase smaller insects over the surface. Works of art and structures nest in the dense riparian vegetation and adjacent areas, offering space for encounters with the place and with each other.

This year's edition of flora pondtemporary focuses on questions of relationality, i.e. the way in which human and more-than-human creatures and other entities are connected to each other. Life is made possible by numerous processes of exchange, forms of intra- and interaction on a microbiological, ecological and socio-political level. Having a body actually always means being in a relationship or part of a complex network of relationships. How do we shape these relationships and how do they shape us?

 

On the way through the thicket of these interdependencies and processual encounters, several new productions for flora pondtemporary are based on the phenomenon of resonance, following the musical tradition of the nearby monastery. In music, resonance means that a sound source causes a sound body to vibrate at a certain frequency. It is a relational phenomenon, a phenomenon between vibrating bodies. But which spaces and which bodies are capable of vibrating?

In sociology, the term resonance is often used when people react to or influence each other emotionally or intellectually. In the context of flora pondtemporary, the social is not seen as something that arises solely between people, but is located in a more-than-human, i.e. in an ecological context.

Elisabeth Falkinger has planned something very special for the opening to promote dialog with the local fish population. Workshops with Antje Majewski and Otucha Collective in the run-up to the exhibition will lead to new productions in collaboration with local actors such as the Florianer Chor Anklang. Luïza Luz will be showing works from his:her latest work cycle Flourish & Collapse and the Mother Of Pearl Collective has invited Anne Steinhagen to develop an installation for their 2021 reinterpretation of a Korean pavilion on the grounds of the Stiftsteiche. Other artworks and infrastructures will be reactivated by the Linz-based collective raumarbeiterinnen, among others. Lena Johanna Reisner will be providing curatorial support this year.

Opening on July 29 from 5 pm with performances by Otucha Collective and the Florianer Chor Anklang as well as Elisabeth Falkinger and others.

To mark the opening of flora pondtemporary, Belvedere21 is offering an exploratory tour to St. Florian as part of the exhibition Über das Neue - Wiener Szenen und darüber hinaus - Teil 2. Details on the schedule and registration via the Belvedere 21 website.