Interim presentation, August 8, 2025, as part of the Finissage Nature. On Temperature Differences

KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd

How does temperature feel in motion? What can be reproduced step by step? What becomes visible when we walk through our environment? What when we start from a standstill? What can we draw from this?

Walking as a transformative activity, as an attempt to explore directions and movements, to stumble, slip, balance, and persevere. Walking requires engaging with seemingly inconspicuous moments. A speed full of aesthetics and challenges. Walking demands and opens up.

The participants in this project spent time together walking several times, sensing, seeing, hearing, speaking, recording, and collecting in different directions. These collections of photographs, recordings, notes, and found objects will be shown in an initial interim presentation.

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 to approach the annual theme of the KunstRaum Goethestrasse xtd, The Bumps of Change. The project offers an exploration of this method of locomotion as an artistic practice, as well as individual and collective walking experiences, in order to gain new perspectives and insights.

I like walking because it’s slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at around five kilometers per hour. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust

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