Brucknersticken

Brucknersticken is a participatory project in the form of a collective embroidery. Over the course of several months, participants gathered in different settings to embroider a fragment of a Bruckner score. Meeting by meeting – note by note – stitch by stitch, the embroideries grew as the sum of each individual’s handwriting and personality.
The two embroidered scores are based on original sketches of Bruckner’s unfinished 9th Symphony. Visible within the score are not only Bruckner’s handwriting, but also his hesitations, corrections, marginal notes, and the traces of the paper’s ageing. All of these elements found their way into the embroideries. Nearly 200 years later, the participants took up the thread, embroidered the notes and blended their own handwriting with that of the composer. The result is a living, polyphonic score.
Finally, cellist Annekatrin Flick performed the embroidered scores.

The embroidery gatherings took place at various locations and social contexts:
-Friends of the Linz Music Theatre, Linz
-Café Volksgarten, Linz -Singing Academy at the Frohsinn Choir House, Linz
-Friday Market, Ottensheim -Volksgarten Park, Linz
-Institute Schön für besondere Menschen, Micheldorf
-Upper Austrian Public Library, Linz
-Knitting Club at Café Strassmair, Wels
-Diesterweg Middle School, Linz
-Neuhaus Castle, Sankt Martin im Mühlkreis
-Department of Culture, Linz
-SOS Human Rights Auatria, Linz
-St. Florian Abbey
-Private garden, Ulrichsberg
-Red Cross, Kronstorf
-Stifter-Haus, Horní Planá (Czech Republic)
-Lentos Art Museum, Linz
-Linz-Salzburg and Salzburg-Linz Train
-Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Linz