Salzkammergut | JOURNEYS
Time can feel indeterminate in Salzkammergut. On one hand, there's the ageless beauty of this Austrian region's limestone mountains, cobalt lakes and timber A-frame houses fronted by window boxes resplendent with flowers. On the other, there's Christoph Viscorsum, contemporary artist and alpinist, fixing me with a clear blue gaze as he describes how the new audio compilation he's created as a soundtrack to this landscape could change my life.
“How do you take this experience with you and not lose it?” he asks, gesturing to the geological drama before us: a vista of alpine pastures, conifer-studded slopes, threadbare mountain peaks and broad valleys, hazy with afternoon sun. “How do you return to society?”
Viscorsum, who once spent three days and nights perched atop poles in central Vienna for a piece of performance art, is standing on the Katrin alp, 1400 metres above the spa town of Bad Ischl, explaining the concept behind the Great Space Walk - part of the program for Bad Ischl Salzkammergut's designation as
