Once Upon A Time... in einem Dorf

On Saturday evening August 16, 2008 the film 'Once Upon A Time... in einem Dorf' by Eva Ursprung was presented in Wd8. The film shows the daily life in Walkersdorf mixed with the visits of international artists in the small village. The film was presented inside one of the rooms of the old Wd8-farm. After the film presentation we continued the evening outside behind the Wd8-farm watching the beautiful partial lunar eclipse.

mother:earth

Photos from the workshop on July 6, 2008 in Wd8, as part of the symposium 'mother:earth', are online at the Styrian Summer Art photo archive. During this beautiful Sunday morning women from different arabic and european countries visited Wd8. Together we made a relief from clay, guided by artist Belinda Ziegler. The symposium 'mother:earth' took place in Pöllau bei Hartberg as part of the Styrian Summer Art festival in July 2008.

Wd8 in the Media

Kleine Zeitung created a very nice article today about Wd8 and the Regionale08. The photo with the article shows the bus stop sign of the Regionale08 shuttle bus in front of the future Wd8 metro station. At the moment the Wd8 metro station is only a dot on a virtual map. But since last Friday the bus station 'Wd8 Walkersdorf' really exists! It is one of the bus stops where the Regionale08 shuttle bus stops. It is listed in the timetable on the bus stop sign, that was especially made for the Regionale.

Besides a metro station, Wd8 now also has its own television station :-)



Here is the short article about Wd8. The full article can be read at http://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/feldbach/regionale/1374349/index.do

Bellydance in the Cowbarn

Austrian artist Heidi Zenz has made a beautiful belly dance performance at Wd8. After painting a secret oriental door on the outside wall of the barn, she then danced through this painted door of the sultan into the former cow barn, the same cow barn where the famous Wd8 pig was made. A video of the dance performance will be shown in Pavelhaus during the Regionale08 in Summer 2008.

Walkersdorf - Shanghai - Metro

Already since two years Wd8 is planning to transform the former wine cellar of the old farm into a metro station. In Shanghai they do not just plan such things, they also realize them. Here is a photo of the Jing'an Temple that has been transformed into an entrance to the Shanghai Metro.

Walkersdorf - Shanghai

Today at 14:20 the Wd8-Team will enter the new Wd8 metro network and travel to Shanghai, the current center of the world. During the next two weeks the Wd8-Team will be exploring the young, extremely fast expanding metro network in this Chinese metropole. The first line of this metro network opened in 1995. By now the metro network has a total length of more than 225km, with 8 different metro lines and 161 metro stations! We will use our time to travel around the town on the different lines, with different trains, visiting the stations, collecting impressions, ideas, structures, sounds and images. During the following two months, these impressions will merge into sketches for the future metro network that will connect Walkersdorf directly with its neighbouring European capitals Ljubljana, Budapest, Zagreb and Vienna. And of course there will be a direct line from Walkersdorf to Graz-Ikea. The photo shows the entrance in the former Wd8 wine cellar to this future metro network.

As a preparation for our visit to Shanghai, I found this guide on the official website of the Shanghai Metro that explains step by step how to use the metro network. Besides explaining how to get on and off the train, it even explains you how to wait for the train: http://www.shmetro.com/english/metro_diy/jinzhan.htm.

We will be back online with regular posts in the middle of Mai. Zài jiàn!

The first water

This is the first water in the new Wd8 pond. After the first Wd8 pond started to lose its water in autumn last year, I decided to fix it. But before removing all the water from the pond to fix it, I wanted to move as much as possible of the life in the old pond into a new pond. So during the last weeks a new pond has emerged. It has turned into an interesting creation that is not going so deep into the earth but is going up since I created some sort of hill for it. This photo shows the first bucket of water that was emptied into the new pond. Now we are waiting for the rain to fill it up. And then I must try to catch the frog that is still hiding in the last bit of water in the old pond and try to move it into the new pond...