You’ll Never Walk Alone, Football and Fan Culture
9 June – 9 July 2006
O.K Centre for Contemporary Art
Dametzstraße 30
4020 Linz, Austria
0043.732.784178-0
office@ok-centrum.at
www.ok-centrum.at
Starting June 9th there will be excitement and prayers, tears and shouts of jubilation, fist fights and dancing, racist jibes and anti-racist agitation: The World Cup inflames the passions of millions. The O.K Center for Contemporary Art traces the enormous emotional impact of fandom and positions art, film, documentation, the self-aestheticization of fans and fan commerce in a highly charged relationship.
Youll never walk alone – the exhibition named after the legendary battle hymn from Liverpool additionally seeks to reconstruct changes in the concept of fans through a reflection on the space of the stadium: from the everyday cultural rituals of the crowd, through hooligan branding and all the way to domestication in the “disneyfied” and rigidly monitored entertainment arenas of the present.
Stephen Dean FR/US, Josef Dabernig /AT, Wolfgang Dorninger /AT, Massimo Furlan /CH, Julie Henry /GB, Jamie Holman /UK, Peter Hörmanseder /AT, Kurt Lackner /AT, Peter Mörtenböck & Helge Mooshammer /AT, Antoni Muntadas /ES, Barbara Musil & Gunda Wiesner /AT, Antonio Ortega /ES
Local-Bühne Freistadt: Gustavo Artigas /MX, Roderick Buchanan / UK, Ingeborg Lüscher /DE, Paul Pfeifer /US
Lebzelterhaus, Vöcklabruck: Chris Müller /AT and Franzobel /AT, Mario Sinnhofer /AT, Gerd Trautner /AT
Gallery of the City of Wels: Ol /DE, Burghardt Fritsche /DE, G.R.A.M. /AT, Sasha Pirker & Thomas Hamann /ATObjects an photographs from “Progetto Ultra”, IT fan archive, Gerd Dembowski
Objects an photographs from “Progetto Ultra”, IT fan archive, Gerd Dembowski
s /DE and Dieter Braschs /AT private archives and Claude Pascals /CH record collection.
Curators: Thomas Edlinger & Martin Sturm
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O.K Centre for Contemporary Art
Dametzstraße 30
4020 Linz, Austria
0043.732.784178-0
office@ok-centrum.at
