Lax Bar Christoph Meier, Ute Müller, Robert Schwarz, Lukas Stopczynski – Vienna, Austria Walk-in Art Installation | Wiener Festwochen The square is the foundation of a regular geometric grid. In 1908, Adolf Loos used the equilateral rectangle to highlight the orthogonal orientation of the interior of his so-called Kärntner Bar, the first American-style bar in
Untitled (Basin & Range) Alois Kronschlaeger, MOCA Tucson – Tucson, Arizona Untitled (Basin and Range) is an immersive, site-specific installation that brings an unexpected, monumental geographic feature into the Great Hall. We are used to engaging with the classic “basin and range” topography in the landscape, but constructing this landmass in a museum gallery setting
Spire Alois Kronschlaeger, Sitelab – Grand Rapids, Michigan Spire, encompassed three floors of an abandoned commercial building in downtown Grand Rapids. This installation was curated by SiTE:LAB, a local nonprofit that coordinates temporary art projects, and sponsored by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. Like most of Kronschlaeger’s work, Spire demonstrated a preoccupation with
Lacustre Bilgeri Yacht Yard – Lake of Constance Since 1960, the Bilgeri Yacht yard on Lake Constance has been building primarily sailboats using wood, the classic material in boat building. They utilize that material in every conceivable construction method, up to its highest perfection as a Lacustre Yacht.
Kreide AO& Collective, with Roland Velich and Christian Seiler – Müllendorf, Austria Symposium for Setting and Programming. For more than a week Philipp Furtenbach, artist and chef of the group AO&, along with journalist Christian Seiler and his friend, winemaker Roland Velich, took over a chalk quarry in Müllendorf, Burgenland. Every evening, a dozen people
Wassertal AO& Collective, Martin Mackowitz Architect – Buchboden, Austria On the banks of the roaring Lutzbach, not far from the village of Buchboden, one of Austria’s strongest sulfur springs emerges. One liter of this water contains 29 mg of sulfide sulfur. The spring has long been known as the sulfur well “Lutzschwefelbad”, accessible to the
LHF – Lighthouse Festival Electronic Music Festival – Poreč, Croatia “Electronic music on vacation” is the tagline of the Lighthouse Festival, which took place for the sixth time at a holiday resort on the coast of the Istrian peninsula in western Croatia during the first weekend of June. If you’ve only experienced multi-day festivals in