First stage of the long-term art project, Luftbad / Vienna.

In the widest sense of the word TRAVEL ART can be understood as the creative confrontation with the unknown.  In this sense the word TRAVELLING is a different term for the process of life and TRAVEL ART can be understood as one’s attitude towards life. Our confrontation with the unknown start with the instant we are born and ends in our final hour.  Every living creature is in motion and is on a journey from where it’s been to where it’s going.
At no point in time have there ever been more confrontations between people of different origins and culture than today. This is our joint chance. Hospitability is a prerequisite for mutual understanding and therefore the basis for global cohabitation of mankind without nationalisms.
Traveling requires guts to leave the known behind, traveling means crossing borders, to put oneself in danger.  Traveling means entering, opening up to the unknown. Traveling doesn’t necessarily mean tourism and it doesn’t mean having to leave the home country. Art can act as mediator between cultures and contribute to global understanding.

TRAVEL ART as a creative confrontation with the unknown comprises artistic approaches in the context of global understanding.

TRAVEL ART ARCHIVE is a forum for people working creatively in this direction and gives their and our works publicity.

TRAVEL ART collects and presents projects, activities, contributions from all artistic fields (visual arts, music, literature, film, etc.) as well as peripheral artistic-scientific fields (sociology, ethnology, geology etc.) which also topically deal with TRAVELLING.

TRAVEL ART ARCHIVE is basically a card index, which holds the works created in context with TRAVELLING. This card index, the archives, their configuration as well as all activities comprised within are understood as a usable, walkable and liveable work of art.

TRAVEL ART ARCHIVE is open to the public and at the same time provides a forum for the continual exchange of thoughts and ideas, mutual incitement and public presentation. The available works of art are cataloged in the card index and may be viewed as of their affiliation with the project.

Artists from the group THE BLUE COMPRESSOR - Floating & Stomping Company present their own works in exhibitions, film screenings, lectures and actions.
Selected works from the archive will be presented in a final exhibition.

Exhibitions and events from November 1986 till June 1987:

Archive/Vienna - Collection Vienna / Luftbad
30.11.1986-28.2.1987

Wiener Reisen (Viennese Journeys) - 10 Travel experiences
29.11., 30.11.1986, Vienna
Gustav Deutsch / Hanna Schimek

Leo Africanus Le Voyageur
30 min sounds, 20 min films
6.12.1986
Gustav Deutsch

Herz Cairo (Heart Cairo)
Concert to Scenes from Cairo
13.12.1986
Werner Kodytek

Chebika / 1100 sec
Installation und ritual actions
7.1.-18.1.1987
Hanna Schimek

Keine Sehnsucht ist so groß wie die unsere (No desire is as big as ours)
Installation
21.1.-1.2.1987
Herbert Kerschbaum

Geschenke an das Meer - überbringt der Fluß (Gifts for the sea - delivered by the river)
Collective Collection - Action
4.2.-16.2.1987, Winterhafen Wien
Gustav Deutsch

Exotik als Anschauungsweise (Exotic as a point of view)
Exotik als (Über)Lebenskunst (Exotic as (survival)living-art)
3 lectures
20., 22., 23.2.1987
Luitgard Eisenmeier

Die Kunst der Reise - Texte (Travel Art - texts)
Invited people read texts
28.2.1987

Archiv - Auswahl Ausstellung - Filme (Archive - selection - films)
28.5.-2.6.1987 / Luftbad Wien