Interim Presentation, 8 August 2025, as part of the finissage of Nature. On Temperature Differences

KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd

How does moving temperature feel, what can be conveyed step by step, what becomes visible when we walk through our surroundings? And what if we move from one spot? What can we draw from it?

Walking as a transformative activity, as an attempt to explore directions and movements – stumbling, slipping, balancing, and persevering in the process. Walking demands an openness to seemingly inconspicuous moments. A pace full of aesthetics and challenges. Walking both demands and reveals.

The participants of this project have spent time together walking on several occasions – sensing, seeing, hearing, speaking, recording, and collecting in different directions. This first interim presentation shows these collections of photographs, audio recordings, notes, and found objects.

Project participants: Luise Fiedermutz, Monika Goldmann, Michaela Kéita-Kornfehl, Felix Lehner, Beate Rathmayr, Gertraud Sobotka, Erika Schwyhla, Sonja Tanzer, Johanna Tatzgern

WALKING. A Project is dedicated to this form of movement in order to approach the annual theme of KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, The Unevenness of Change. The project offers an engagement with this mode of locomotion as an artistic practice, as well as with individual and collective walking experiences, to gain new perspectives and insights.

I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind works at about the same pace as the feet, around five kilometres an hour. – Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust

Walking as movement, as physical experience, as a potentially transformative activity offers possibilities for artistic expression not only to visual artists but also to writers. Whether wandering, marching, or striding according to self-imposed rules, it alters spaces, experiences, and perceptions.