Walk around an unexploded bomb

Today we visited the Museum on the Mönchsberg, where I watch „The Sound of Music“, a movie I have never seen before.

While I watch the Trapp children march down the staircase like soldiers my painter-visitor watches Harun Farocki's "I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts" in the same museum. „Wow. That was intense.“ a strange young lady says to herself when the movie ends. The painter, a tall guy with a raspy voice, says that Farocki made quite a number of intense films, that he knew Farocki, that he had the privilege of participating in some of his courses. The two start a conversation and introduce each other. The lady is called Sarah, she is from Yorkshire, teaching 225 pupils as an art teacher in Leeds. The painter is called David, he comes from Vienna and it took him 4 days to reach Salzburg by bike.


Sarah decides to skip the free guided tour through the exhibition „Art/Histories“ and instead joins us for our guided tour through Salzburg city. The architect →Max Rieder leads the way on a funny city walk. „It is quite rumbling and sometimes I loose the thread but I like the small awarenesses that I will have after this.“ Sarah says. Here is where we walked:

And here is what the police had planned to evacuate because of the unexploded World War II bomb that was found today:

The indian curator Nancy Adajania also walked the whole city walk. How did she like it? „I like the way Max Rieder began the walk by taking us to Unipark, the open agoratic space near the university, how he explained that it was both an agora and a loggia but also it was a space of prohibition because you can't sit anywhere. You can only stand or walk through it. So although it looks democratic it is not a space for revolution. I joked with him and said that this is not a space where you can have an Occupy movement.“

After the rainy walk we have dinner in a 500 year old restaurant and after that we walk to the Denkmal bar. Guess whom we met there?