STWST48x10 NOPE - Aviso and CALL
SAVE THE DATE
STWST48x10 NOPE.
48 hours of various comments.
06. - 08. Sept 2024
STADTWERKSTATT Linz
With STWST48x10 NOPE, Stadtwerkstatt is holding the 10th edition of its annual 48-hour non-stop showcase extravaganza STWST48 in September 2024:
With NOPE, STWST is responding to ramped up optimism. In the midst of multiple crises, totalitarianism and toxic hallucinations, hope itself becomes to hope. Or even a category of struggle - but for whom or against what?
And that's how it looks in the brave new world out there: a dismantling society that still pretends we are rebuilding. Attitudes that perpetuate political stances that should have been disposed of long ago. People who have become tools of their own optimisation and raw materials. A technology that has become total. A species on the edge. And: super-purified meanings. Confessions in trademark mode. Education for the good. Freedom from contradiction as the new freedom.
STWST moves between Not Real and Not Really with the shadowiness of a succinct NOPE and focusses on its core themes: New contexts, critical production, increasing the contradictions, imagination as material, unmediated art, intentional reorganisation of means.
STWST says NOPE. More than ever, STWST is refusing to work through topics and is focussing on principles and various comments. We show the house as a continuum of criticism and anti-spectacle. The house loses nothing and forgets nothing.
We invite allies to join us in playing away the pain of current developments. We invite accomplices to play their completely different instruments of the future. We hallucinate a Planet of Sleep as the ultimate differently conceived new territory: Not On Planet Earth.
In 2024, STWST48x10 NOPE once again means forty-eight hours of genre-free art and critical production in the Anti White Cube of the building. STWST shows uncleaned art contexts, exhibition pieces, performances, brings discourse and text transformation and mixes everything with two nights of music and sound.
Throughout the building: NOPEtimism of the will.
YOPE. Come to the STWST. Walk through a palace of cultivated pessimism or through a future of solved problems. Decide for yourself what will happen! Sounds like a disaster? YOPE, you are right.
Start: Friday, 6 September 2024, 18:00.
End: Sunday, 8 September 2024, 18:00.
STWST, Stadtwerkstatt Linz, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz
STWST 48×10 NOPE. ALL LINE UP, AVAILABLE FROM AUGUST 2024:
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CALL
STWST48x10 NOPE.
48 hours of various comments.
Call for participation in NOPE: For those for whom the above-mentioned core topics are exactly what they are looking for, despite all the thematic openness, we may be the right place for you: new contexts, critical production, increase of contradiction, imagination as material, unmediated art, intentional reorganisation of means. We are interested in projects that are located “after the new media”, that thematise media of all kinds. If you prefer, also with electricity. Please send project outlines of max. 1 DIN A4 page including all relevant information, plus a short bio/works show by 30 June 2024 at the latest to office@stwst.at