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Niagara Melk
TEAM OLYMP
(Julia Riederer, Lisa Jäger, Nikolaus Eckhard)
(Students from the Vienna Academy of Fine Art, Department of Art with Extended Pictorial Spatial Action / Sculpture / Installation in Public Space.)
The Danube brings tourists to Melk — it defines the beauty of the Wachau valley. But this force of nature also holds formidable dangers. The potential for flooding is everpresent in Melk — the city is armed against the threatening water masses. The steelbridge over the arm of the Danube has a special protective mechanism: a lifting construction with which it can be raised at high water.
With Niagara Melk we want to celebrate a marriage between the bridge and the river. During floods the customary and first way to free a flooded object from
water is by forming a human chain and emptying the water with buckets. We employ this language of form. Not to counteract a natural catastrophe but to generate a natural spectacle. A waterfall that is generated by the collaboration and power of many people. The sounds of the performance are recorded, and in the following weeks they can be heard as an acoustic memory from a sound installation on the bridge.
TEAM OLYMP
(Julia Riederer, Lisa Jäger, Nikolaus Eckhard)
(Students from the Vienna Academy of Fine Art, Department of Art with Extended Pictorial Spatial Action / Sculpture / Installation in Public Space.)
The Danube brings tourists to Melk — it defines the beauty of the Wachau valley. But this force of nature also holds formidable dangers. The potential for flooding is everpresent in Melk — the city is armed against the threatening water masses. The steelbridge over the arm of the Danube has a special protective mechanism: a lifting construction with which it can be raised at high water.
With Niagara Melk we want to celebrate a marriage between the bridge and the river. During floods the customary and first way to free a flooded object from
water is by forming a human chain and emptying the water with buckets. We employ this language of form. Not to counteract a natural catastrophe but to generate a natural spectacle. A waterfall that is generated by the collaboration and power of many people. The sounds of the performance are recorded, and in the following weeks they can be heard as an acoustic memory from a sound installation on the bridge.
