The artist collective Terrains Vagues is working on site to test the “Smallest Water Park in Austria” as a utopian project that questions the accessibility of leisure facilities in tourist areas and especially at Lake Traunsee in Gmunden, where access is mainly private. It is a nod to large-scale infrastructures that offer a paid-for pleasure detached from the surroundings and promote a consumerist approach to our natural environment.
The aim of the project is to utilise one of Plateau Blo’s floating platforms and transform it through experimental and collaborative water games. The collective proposes an alternative design of water parks by constructing systems of reused materials that can be activated by the public to interact with Lake Traunsee.
At the opening on Saturday 29 June from 11am to 2pm, they will activate the installation, first with a performance in which they ask questions to the lake and then invite people to use the installation.
Opening 29. June ’24:
11 – 14h, Seebahnhof Gmunden
11:30 + 13:00: Performance
Plateau Blo
Research Station, Sauna, Space for Performance and Exhibition
With PLATEAU BLO, a floating island structure consisting of several platforms moves across Lake Traunsee during the Capital of Culture year.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
