HERZBLUTWIESE STADTWERKSTATT
The STWST from a feminist perspective.
SYNOPSIS:
Herzblutwiese Stadtwerkstatt, Essay film
Fragments and continuities of feminist history: The essay film ‘Herzblutwiese Stadtwerkstatt’ addresses feminism, equal rights and equality at Stadtwerkstatt, the longest-running autonomous art and culture centre in the city of Linz. In an environment of aesthetic innovation, social revolt, subversive power and artistic-technological developments, the film interweaves text, interviews, artistic productions and archive material from 1979 to the present day into a narrative with shifting perspectives – thus creating a larger social story that extends beyond the city.
A film by Claudia Dworschak & Tanja Brandmayr.
DIRECTORS BIOS:
CLAUDIA DWORSCHAK, born in 1963, lives and works in Linz. Video artist, cultural and media worker, studied Audiovisual Media Design/Film, Video at the University of Art and Design Linz. Former employee at Radio FRO (women's radio networking project), dorf.tv (live programme coordinator), Linz09 (project management), Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz (production management), among others; lecturer at the University of Art and Design Linz/MKKT and the PÄDAK of the Diocese of Linz/Art Education. Initiator and founder of spaceFEMfm women's radio on Radio FRO. Her artistic work focuses on video and performance art, mostly in collaboration with different people in various contexts. Numerous works were created within the artists' collective freundinnenderkunst and the artist duo diekönigin. www.freundinnenderkunst.at
Video productions (selection):
2021 - Von Gespenstern und Krokodilen
2020 – Roadmovie https://youtu.be/1SJ4t_CWYsA
2016 - Mein Name ist. Ich bin. https://www.crossingeurope.at/film/mein_name_ist_ich_bin
2015 - supersummativ https://youtu.be/kbCWH-naV_M
2012 - Beruf: Berührerin
2011 - Sehnsucht
2007 – Dasein https://youtu.be/9gGvOOLKzoE
2006 - Wilder Westen https://youtu.be/4Nb4RytA9dM
2005 - Tatsächlich Scheinbar
2004 - wenn ich dich jetzt in meine arme nehme …
2001 - synchronstricken https://youtu.be/nDnnF3aRum0
TANJA BRANDMAYR, born in 1969, art and culture producer, author, has been working for many years and in various contexts with text, dramaturgy, media, concept and space. Studied sociology/graduated in cultural sociology in 2004, previously trained as a performing artist. Numerous performative and visual projects, including play development and dramaturgy for dance/theatre projects, repeatedly conceived and implemented with projection and video since the 1990s. Several prizes and awards. Later expanded art, media art, research and theory projects. Since 2014, continuous employee at Stadtwerkstatt/Linz; works at Stadtwerkstatt in the field of ‘New Art Contexts’ with her own research format Quasikunst. Within this format, continuous media and network topics, as well as expanded multidisciplinary works such as ‘Nik, the Sleeper’ or ‘Postglow Cinema’. Several publications in an artistic context. Since 2016, member of the STWST leading team and involved in artistic programming; since 2020, managing director and artistic director of Stadtwerkstatt, a cultural centre that has focused on film, film art, video, TV and expanded media art from the outset. Also author, ongoing text work. (Co-)publisher and editor of the artist-run art and culture newspaper ‘Die Referentin’. Editor of the Stadtwerkstatt newspaper ‘Versorgerin’.