The Water Biennale Yahoos-Garden was founded by Günther Pedrotti and Franz Rauchenberger in 2008. It is a project biennale, which uses the element of water for its temporary interventions in public space.
Waste is not something, that drops “off or out“ from a production process; it is created today as a excretion from a socio-economic societal body – it “drops off” the end of processes of consume. Before, things were „thrown away“, now „left“ or „littered“ describes a behaviour shaped by consumerism.
Christina Helena Romires collected garbage, cleaned by the river water, symbolises the change from the early 80ies surface level consideration of waste to today’s focus on the level of material and resources.
A variety of materials, textures and parts of objects, which are ever present in our everyday are often the starting points of Romires' projects. These objects meanings are questioned and removed from their ordinary surroundings, transformed and contextualised anew.
North of Fürstenfeld in the so-called beech forest a prominent line of soul erosion is located alongside the river Feistritz. This areal has been the location settlements for thousands of years until the city of Fürstenfeld was built here. The project RE-SUBLIMAT – Arbeit am Abfall by Alfred Graf provides artistic interventions on fragile earth walls alongside the river Feistritz and at economic locations of erosion in the city. He re-condensed loose sediment from the river to metaphoric forms.
As an extension of the pre-existing engraved private statements, Graf leaves the natural cycle and presents his projects in abandoned socio-economic sights of erosion, like empty business premises.
In the city and in shopping malls “stranded bodies” are poured out of the sediments and refill economic sink holes (vacant premises).
Günther Pedrotti
