23rd International Festival of Street Art Pflasterspektakel
Linz, Austria
Thursday, July 23rd to Saturday July 25th, 2009
The Pflasterspektakel 2009 was a project of the European Capital of Culture year 2009.
http://www.linz09.at/en/index.html
Luc Amoros
Visual object theater usually works in dark rooms, was created from the skillful manipulation of objects in an intimate environment.
Cie. Luc Amoros managed to retain this charm and was still open to create public works on a grand scale for a large audience.
The troupe creates an overwhelming spectacle of lights and live music. Here they didn’t use a traditional stage, but instead set up a gigantic screen.
This was the blank canvas, a space in the middle of the city, which could be filled with the shadows, paintings and pictures of all kinds. It offers a possible antidote to the advertising space, to which we had become so accustomed in urban space, and a chance to see things we miss in everyday life … dreams and forgotten stories.
“The blank canvas” was an opening as well as a contribution from Linz09 to the Pflasterspektakel in which street theater takes over the city for a great weekend.
80+1
Connected via the Internet in real time, from 23 to 25 July Linz and Resistencia (Argentina) celebrated rhythms and sounds that have always been understood across all barriers of language and geography. Every night at midnight, the street artists of this year’s Pflasterspektakel would offer a rendition of their lullabies, which could be followed live in Argentina. And vice versa.
Everyone in Linz was cordially invited to sing along, to experience together with 80+1 and the Pflasterspektakel live cultural diversity. The setting was the Linz Main Square.
http://www.linz09.at/en/projekt-2106338/801.html
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