I was invited by Kunstraum Goethestraße to do an intervention at the open day of the mental institution in the city of Steyr. The clinic has been opened recently and the new structure is designed in this typical contemporary CAD-design of representative business buildings. My intervention was meant to encourage and to exaggerate this scenery. I invented a fictional Segway tour through the institution which was publicized by a fake poster and a fake advertising trailer that was shot inside the building. On the open day, performers with different roles joined the visitors and drove through the building on Segways, acting as if they were doing their everyday business.

The Segway PT is a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle, the city of Steyr offers Segway tours
for tourists through the historic city center.

Landeskrankenhaus Steyr in coorporation with Kunstraum Goethestrasse Linz

Performance and intervention in public space / September 2009

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