Sidetracks of the Future
Dominik Morishita-Leitner (AT)
Sidetracks of the Future is looking at buildings and infrastructure and how interconnectivity of landmarks is shaping the city and its surroundings.
The BULGARI OPERA completes the round ensemble of Bulgari Square. The architectural memory of the city is also political. The view over the Blumau forms a visual and mental connection between Landstraße and Wienerstraße and leaves open the place where Hitler dreamed of an opera in “his” Linz. The theatre site is named after Anton Bulgari, who fought against Austrofascists there in February 1934 and was executed days later.
MÜHLKREIS BRIDGE and TUNNEL, planned as Autobahnextension into the Mühlviertel. Realizing this would increase traffic the plans where modified to provide a connection of the Mühlkreisbahn via main station, into the industrial area and further to the Summerauer Bahn. Further construction will connect the Mühlviertel in the North via Czech Republic, creating MÜHLVIERTEL LOOP LINE.
When structural integrity of former Eisenbahnbrücke became a concern for cars, a bypass was built and the steel skeleton enclosed in glass was turned into a tropical green house, the MONKEY BRIDGE.
Dominik Morishita-Leitner lives and works in Vienna. Grown up in the suburbs of Linz, in an area with a mix of small family houses and large construction companies, he is at home in the in-betweens. He studied textil.kunst.design at the University of Arts Linz and is active as a multimedia artist and curator, in the fields of music and graphic design, with an interest in architecture and cityscapes. In the recent years Morishita-Leitner’s works have been shown at Kluckyland (Vienna), Ars Electronica Center (Linz), Festival AMRO — Art Meets Radical Openness (Linz), Dora Brilliant (Frankfurt am Main) or Jungdabang Gallery (Seoul).