The manufacturers
Die Fabrikanten are an artist group and agency for communication founded in Linz in 1990 . It is also active as a cultural association . In addition to commissioned work for companies and institutions, the group is active in media and intervention art as well as in the area of live art .
history
Die Fabrikanten was founded by two graduates of the then Linz Art School (master class in visual design), Gerald Harringer and Wolfgang Preisinger. As the “office for design and communication culture”, the purpose of the company was to combine applied and free artistic work.
The experimental film Mondsee took part in the Spanish film festival Cidade de Vigo as early as 1989, and two years later in the Tokyo Video Festival. In 1990, 1,000 rubbish bins stood on Linz's main square in a way that was effective for a new way of dealing with the waste problem. In 1993 the manufacturers organized their first major intervention in public space : The Eisendorf company - based on the former iron curtain on the border. Artists and social scientists from Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic were invited to the border village of Pohori na Sumave, which was formerly inhabited by German-speaking people and has been abandoned since 1946. The 20 or so participants lived like the refugees of the time and worked out possible solutions to the problems. The material was finally packed in iron suitcases and sealed. In 2004 the suitcases were returned to some of the participants from that time. In 2005 the documentary Blown Borders was released , which traces this intervention.
In 1996 an intervention took place on the border between Israel and the Palestinian Autonomous Territories . Together with artists and scientists from Israel, Palestine, Austria and Germany, we hiked along the green border of the West Bank for five days and discovered cultural boundaries and gained new perspectives in contact with locals. In the same year, the group organized the first Upper Austrian Media Academy, a project that familiarized the participants with experiences with web design and online communication. The project moved to the Hagenberg software park in the following years and took place for the last time in 2002.
In 1999 and 2000 the media art competitions Gif-Art-Generator and Audio-Art-Generator were designed and implemented together with Upper Austria Online . In 2000 , the project “Zeitreise Oberösterreich” was designed for the Upper Austrian provincial exhibition , which was entitled Time , and the 150m2 dorfbodn project was implemented with the municipality of Weibern.
The short film Ma , produced in 2003, won the 2004 Diagonale award for the best short film. In 2005 I am my world , which was shown at the Diagonale and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival in 2006 and at the Clermont-Ferrand short film festival in 2007 . From 2005 to 2007 the film Trivial Europe emerged from the examination of Europe . In 2012 the live art festival documentary “Like a Hole in the Time” will be produced, which will support the Europe-wide festival Exchange Radical Moments! documented.
Today (as of summer 2013) Die Fabrikanten are active under the motto Culture grows through encounter .
Filmography
- 1989: Mondsee (experimental film)
- 1989: Elephant meeting (video documentation)
- 1993: Tagata
- 1993: Annihilation
- 1998: Linz Lasts Forever (short film)
- 2003: Ma (short film, 16 min; director: Gerald Harringer)
- 2005: Boundaries Blown away (video documentation)
- 2006: I am my world (short film, director: Gerald Harringer)
- 2007: Trivial Europe (documentary, 60 min; directors: Gerald Harringer, Wolfgang Preisinger)
- 2012: Like a Hole in the Time (documentary 25 min; director: Gerald Harringer, design: Johannes Pröll)
Awards
- Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria 1998: Grand State Prize for initiative cultural work
- Diagonale 2004: Best Short Film for Ma
- City of Linz 2013: City of Cultures (together with alluvial land and urban farm)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description on fabrikanten.at
- ↑ Description on dafilms.com