HOAMATGSANG - A Folk Song

A multi-lingual sound installation in public space

A Project for LINZ 2009 European Capitol of Culture

 

Deutsch

 

 

Monument of Stelzhamer

 

Visitors of the installation

 

The intervention, “Hoamatgsang – A Folk Song” deals with the mechanism of establishing a national or regional identity and the phenomena of exclusion resulting from it. The Upper Austrian regional anthem, which is also an identity builder, forms the central “theme” of the intervention. Further more the text of the anthem was written by Franz Stelzhamer, an Upper Austrian novelist, who is known for his antisemitic texts.

This identity carrier is challenged in its present form and the possibility of its exclusion is reversed with the help of adoption and further development. The anthem would first be translated in about 20 languages and would then be sung by native speakers.

The sound installation was installed next to the monument of Franz Stelzhamer at the "Völkergarten", a public park in Linz, Austria

 

Sound example Upper Austrian dialect
Sound example Hungarian
Sound example Italian
Sound example Turkish

Sound example Polish
Sound example Czech
Sound example English

Sound example Chinese
Sound example French
 

THANKS TO:

Mark Alvarez, Francesco Aprea, Mate Heinrich, Sabah Joja, L´Aurent, Petr Ochvat, Jianan Qu, Katarina Scekic, Elfi Sonnberger, Karolina Szmit, Enrique Tomás

 

Opening speach by Stella Rollig

Visitors

Exhibition view "One Night Stand" State Gallery Linz - Fotos ©Philipp Gerlach