The Vertigo rocket
There is a rocket with a fear of heights in the herb garden.
There was nervousness in the air before the rocket launch. Chris Janka and David Moises once again checked the filling of their converted boiler, which they had filled with compressed air and 300 kg of healing mud. Now the monster “Vertigo”, the rocket with a fear of heights, was ready to take off on Karajanplatz. Despite being afraid of heights, she can fly quite high, 20 meters was the record, and then you shouldn’t be near her when she gives in to the earth’s gravitational pull. “5-4-3-2-1-Ignition Take Off!” For our highly announced rocket launch as part of the festival opening celebration in 2011, just enough compressed air was filled in that the rocket made a small hop to the side and spilled the contents of its stomach onto the street with a loud flatulence noise. A game with our expectations and a wonderful picture of failure at the beginning of the festival, on whose stages nothing can go wrong!
Now the rocket stands as a reminder of earlier flight attempts in the inner courtyard, which also serves the function of a garden, a “Hortus Conclusus”. We imagine that people have used the inner courtyard of the Blue Goose over the centuries to grow herbs to refine their dishes or – more mundanely – to accompany the often strong taste of the food, let’s say: dominantly.
In the inner courtyard, the chefs indulge their green thumb in the teardrop-shaped, underlit raised beds. This is also required: for three kilos of herb butter you need a quarter of a kilo of herbs. They should grow and spread in order to delight the guests of the house as herbal salt, flavored oils and vinegars, essences, tinctures beyond the kitchen. In addition to the “Vertigo”, the tomatoes thrive so well without any fear of heights that you can snack on them from the windowsill – if you have the right room.
