Ybbs 4 Dimensions
The "4 Dimensions Ybbs" pilot project is being developed as a citizen science project in collaboration with local stakeholders, representatives of the town of Ybbs, scientific expertise and international networks.
How is architectural history brought to life? What do the people of Ybbs have to say about their town? What do they know about the history of their town? How is an action in public space documented? How does the now get into the long-term archive?
The fourth dimension (4D) of time in digitalisation
One aspect of the project will be the creation of a performance with historical references and with the participation of the population. Co-creation and co-participation will explore how we can relive and relate to history. A contemporary performance has its uniqueness in the here and now. The project explores different approaches to transforming this ephemeral event into a digital object. Digital preservation in an archive will give permanence to the ephemeral event where it can be re-experienced without time or geographic boundaries.
The digital material from the Ybbs town archive and the material currently being compiled from the performance in Ybbs will be made available via a platform for long-term archiving and will therefore be visible worldwide via the international Europeana database. As this is a pilot project, it will not be possible to guarantee completeness, but the collection will be fragmentary and as diverse as possible.
Four Dimensions in Ybbs
consists of three phases:
PHASE 1
Historical research and conceptualisation, in which the population is also centrally involved as citizen scientists through workshops. With the support of the Ybbs town archives, we are collecting material from the archives and from the population on the subject of building history and the associated everyday life of the people of Ybbs throughout the ages. The workshops accompany this phase.
PHASE 2
The performance will take place in public places in Ybbs on 21 September. This event will be researched, conceived and designed together with the citizens of Ybbs, accompanied by scientific and artistic results and documented in order to find a new form of digitalisation of performance culture.
PHASE 3
The people of Ybbs will be instructed on how they can subsequently add to Baugeschichte.at with its semantic data links. The material used from the Ybbs town archive and the material created from the performance will be documented and archived. In addition, the people of Ybbs are familiar with how to use long-term archiving via Museumsmanagement Niederösterreich GmbH. By implementing the results via an archiving tool from the Austrian Institute of Technology, the data is standardised and integration into international networks is made possible. Both the museum management and the AIT provide access to EUROPEANA and the data can be found via this European platform.
It is still a challenge to create a lasting documention that does justice to the unique experience a play, concert, or other form of performing art. This project aims to bring past, present and future time into performance culture as a fourth dimension. The aim is to rethink the performing arts in the post-pandemic era and make them available both live and in documentary form for a sustainable experience.
At the same time, places are reinterpreted with this dimension of their own temporality. The recollection of historical events in situ and the everyday life of earlier eras is developed using archive material. Oral narratives based on this material make the past visible, which is presented in the form of a journey through time and brought into the present.
We invite you to share your stories with us!
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YBBS?
The dates of the workshops:
(always on the 3rd Thursday of the month - only in April there is a break, and we have fun at the Ybbsiade)
1st Ybbs workshop
March 21, 2024
5 – 8 pm
Focus History of architecture
G’Wölb im Rathaus
Hauptplatz 1
3370 Ybbs an der Donau
2nd Ybbs workshop
May 16, 2024
5 – 8 pm
Focus Soundscapes (Sound worlds)
G’Wölb im Rathaus
Hauptplatz 1
3370 Ybbs an der Donau
3rd Ybbs workshop
June 20, 2024
5 – 8 pm
Focus Performances in public space
G’Wölb im Rathaus
Hauptplatz 1
3370 Ybbs an der Donau
4th Ybbs Workshop
July 18, 2024
5 – 8 pm
Focus Oral History (oral tradition)
G’Wölb im Rathaus
Hauptplatz 1
3370 Ybbs an der Donau
5th Ybbs workshop
tbc
5 – 8 pm
as required
G’Wölb im Rathaus
Hauptplatz 1
3370 Ybbs an der Donau
The performance will take place on Saturday, September 21, 2024 in Ybbs, time and location will be worked out and announced via this website as well as via our newsletter.
Multi-layered communication of the stories of historical places
By revitalising the locations in the course of the performances and their virtual "reconstruction", they are made visible anew and brought into the present to some extent.
Sound & sound design
What does the past sound like? Klanggestaltung takes visitors on a journey through time and encourages them to experience the historical sites in a new way. Sound reproduction and recording intertwine.
Long-term archiving & visibility
Archival records and museum objects from the historical archives of the town of Ybbs are to be inventoried in the web-based database of Museumsmanagement NÖ and passed on to Europeana.
Time travel & tour
What stories are there about the buildings? Has Ybbs always looked like this? Baugeschichte.at makes it possible to give the houses stories and present their history.
Oral history & conversations
Oral accounts are usually fleeting and rarely archived. With sensitive recordings and conversations, but above all by listening, personal stories can also be passed on and gaps in knowledge filled in.
Accompanying & Following
Through translation into physical experience and the resulting media documents, following (accompanying) artistic processes allows the repetition and physical transmission of performative practices.
Performances in public space
History, everyday life and the contributions of residents are our building blocks for playing with public space.
The concept of the performance will be developed in workshops together with the public.
Artists and scientists will support these processes and work together to develop a concept for the performance in a public space. At the same time, this representation of past events will be dramaturgically linked with the current sounds, circumstances and current events and the different perspectives of the present will be captured.
This documentation and capturing of the temporal levels as well as the time- and place-bound performance consists of recordings of conversations about memory and vision (oral history), soundscapes, interactive listening experiences, instructions for artistic-performative repetition.
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