101

This project revolves around questions into local historic, pragmatic and esoteric frameworks. Lateral research, performance and performative processes were means of exploring Hallein and Salzburg, as an outsider briefly passing through.

To start with, Carl Kellner was an idiosyncratic Hallein character from the turn of the 20th Century, influential within scientific, health, finance, and esoteric scenes. Also curious is the local Frieluftinhalatorium, a breathing installation with salt water running through hawthorn branches in the open air. There are tenuous narratives of survival and prosperity here, driving this project in process.

101 is the first stage of a contingent line of enquiry. Instructions are given for breathing, suitable for both private and civic use, with demonstrations of this basic act of survival. Interviews and performance thread together facts and methodologies as well as gaps in memory and reason.

Thanks to Professor Wolfgang Winterstellar and Barbara Bauregger for generously taking part in interviews, and to M-Real and other sources for information. Many thanks also to Ikjung Cho, Mirela Baciak, Nicholas Hoffman, Billie Lee, Tamas Osvald for their ingenious performances. And thanks to Nabila Irshaid, and Kathrin and Sarah Oberrauch for their support with interviews and transcripts.