Friday 20th June 2025
10am—12.30pm
An artistic-ethnographic walk and programme of noticing and storytelling up the Wien. Join artist-researcher Lili Carr and environmental historian Friedrich Hauer for a morning excursion trading anecdotes, and sharing stories, about living and working with this intensively altered yet vital stream. All are welcome!
Meeting point: Wienflussweg under the St. Veiter Brücke
End: Wolf in der Au
In English, with German translation.
Please note this walk is not barrier-free.
Is the Wienfluss still a river? In Vienna, it is severed from its floodplains and cut off from its groundwaters. It no longer nourishes the land. It carries barely any sediment. Its wastewater counterpart drains the material traces of its urbanised catchment, an area of around 5,000 ha, into the wastewater treatment plant at Simmering. And yet during the September 2024 floods the force of the Wien’s waters broke through its stone bed creating a structural diversity where before there was none. Is this body of water trying to become a river once more?
Contact: info@hybridwaters.net