How can I feel the future? The “Great Space Walk” is an audio artwork by Christoph Viscorsum in collaboration with Andreas Hagelüken. The multi-day hiking tour gently guides us from our seemingly perfectly prepared world into a radically primordial wilderness: through 14 listening and experience spaces, from the privacy of our own bathroom to the Bad Ischl parish church to the Rettenbachalm, from 7 July 2024 onwards into the stone desert of the Totes Gebirge and back to our own everyday lives.
Audio tracks on the smartphone serve as mileposts, which can be listened to with headphones at precisely defined points along the way. The voices, woven into meticulously composed collages, come from in-depth interviews Christoph Viscorsum conducted with church visitors, alpine farmers and experts from various disciplines. They include cultural scientist Aleida Assmann, mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, mountain guide Christoph Hüthmair, social psychologist and futurologist Harald Welzer, musician Hubert von Goisern, author Ariadne von Schirach, philosopher Elisabeth von Samsonow and monk and spiritual teacher David Steindl-Rast. Their voices converge with the listeners and open spaces for thought and reflection, searching for the bond between humans and the universe.
The “Great Space Walk” is a contribution by the Bad Ischl parish church projects to the Capital of Culture programme and is accessible until the end of 2035. Co-operation partners: TVB Bad Ischl, Österreichischer Alpenverein, Sektion Salzkammergut.
