Meeting point: 12.00 noon, Loidl landing stage, Traunkirchen
In order to reserve enough places on the boat, we ask for confirmation by Monday, 12.08.2024
Registration at: office@isastein.com
Catering is provided.
Performance duration: 2 hours, Return journey: 14.00 hrs
Disembarking and docking via water taxi is possible at any time
From 9.00 hrs you can watch the preparatory performance on the rock from the lake and shore.
From 12.00 hrs video documentation of the SCHOTTERHERZEN, as well as a direct view of the creation of the FELSHERZEN.
PART 1 – SCHOTTERHERZ
(ISA STEIN/FELIX MITTER, active quarry, no visitors)
Karbach is an active quarry. Red and white Traunstein marble is quarried at the top of the Karbach quarry. The performance reacts to the conditions, utilises them and becomes part of them. In the active quarry, a heart is dug into the ground using an excavator.
The excavated material is then tipped into the approximately 120 metre deep drop shaft. The falling of stones creates an echo. This process is recorded virtually and acoustically and the shovelled heart connects with the formation process of the heart on the rock.
PART 2 – FELSHERZ
(ISA STEIN/HELI PUTZ, disused quarry, visitors – view from the lake)
The subsequently created FELSHERZ is attached by the extreme climber Heli Putz as an echo by means of abseiling at a height of about 160m . Extreme climber Heli Putz – connected to ISA STEIN via headphones – sprays a heart of ink onto the Karbacher rock at a height of around 160 metres under the artist’s guidance. The echo, as well as the recordings from PART 1 Performance Schotterherz, are presented to the audience simultaneously acoustically and via video. Both hearts are ephemeral. The heart on the rock dissolves again after a few downpours.
So the first performance can only be seen in virtual transmission. The pure documentation makes it possible to perceive the process in the active mining area. In contrast to the intimate process on the plateau, the creation process of the FELSHERZENS in the disused part can be seen from the Karbach lake and landing site and can be understood as an echo. The duality plays with change, with making visible, the virtual and the real, as well as the temporal component. In a figurative sense, the heart refers to an originally prehistoric form of mark-making (cave painting, etc.), with which it was possible to document, depict and send messages. ISA STEIN calls this MESSAGING ART PERFORMANCE.
The heart is the most beautiful form of a message.
The heart is visible from the lake until the next downpour and then dissolves.
Contributors
ISA STEIN, artist, overall concept ECHO-HERZ
Felix Mitter, realisation SCHOTTERHERZ, operator Steinbruch Karbach GmbH
Heli Putz, realisation FELSHERZ, extreme climber
Sebastian Grimus, saxophone
In the course of the exhibition:
Villa Karbach
Where the real and the bizarre meet, “scurrealism” enters the world. This neologism comes from Ebensee writer Walter Pilar, the instigator of the Villa Karbach art project. He and many other artists are showing works of unconventional power and intensity.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
