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STWST 2020 MORE VS LESS / 2020
ANNUAL CLAIM 2020: The fully balanced ST-W-ST has developed the annual theme for the disproportionately tilted more or less worlds in the tie year 20-20: STWST 2020 MORE VS LESS. With the alternately counted combatants MORE VS LESS we ask in 2020 the relevant questions about the future more-or-less situations, the non-equal areas, the counter-validity zones and the areas of non-zero-sum games. STWST 2020 MORE VS LESS TO COME.
Annual Claims of EARLIER YEARS: ANNUAL THEMES OF EARLIER YEARS
Efeu Ex / 2012 - ongoing
IVY EXtended is an installation on the facade of STWST. The installation means growing nature, water circulation, a steampunk machine, a system of a pneumatic machine, entropy, technology, questions of information and the formular of Ludwig Boltzmann - one of the fathers of informationtechnology. The idea of a technical WILD IVY growing over the house of STWST was already born in 1991, before the internet started to change our lifes with the World Wide Web. After IVY EX STWST started the Infolab.
Infolab / 2013 - ongoing
The Infolab is an open laboratory format that Stadtwerkstatt has been running for several years. Infolab is looking for new definitions of new media, art and information. Information is not only important in technology. It is also the engine in evolution. The goal is to look at the concept of information from an artistic perspective. Therefore, Infolab supports art and communication projects in which the concept of information deviates from the information-theoretical concept of Claude Shannon. Infolab has existed since 2012 to ensure autonomy and creativity in a global, rational information society.
Mycelium Network Society / 2017 - ongoing
Mycelium Network Society (MNS) is a Stadtwerkstatt (Linz, Austria) and cycleX (Andes, New York) initiative to connect rhizomic mycelium network nodes. The MNS thematizes mushrooms, spores and mycelia as artistically intended, alternative information networks.
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Image: mushroom@cycleX (2019) by Erwin Carl
QUASIKUNST / 2014 - ongoing
Dichotomies, contradictions. Contexts that question other contexts. All Opposites inclusive.
Quasikunst at STWST48x2 (2016) was defined as: „… a research initiative, conceived for Stadtwerkstatt. Quasikunst in its research mode positions itself in Stadtwerkstatts New Art Contexts. And although being apparently “low-tech”-oriented, Quasikunst arranges systemic constants of technology and art.
Gibling / 2012 - ongoing
Art as currency, currency as art
The Gibling started in 2012 and is a community currency, similar to a regional currency. On the other hand, the Gibling is an art project on its own. Each year the banknotes are designed by a new artist. In the interplay of art and currency the Gibling is building an own art collections since 2016. Edition 2019: Peter Weibel
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STWST48 / 2015 - ongoing
STWST48 is a 48-hour non-stop festival in September. STWST48 presents results from the Infolabs, from formats of Stadtwerkstatts art production, of local and international artists, of Quasikunst, and also the results of the Residencies of the artists that take place on the Eleonore during the summer. The artists are present at the time of STWST48 in Linz. STWST48 takes place parallel to the Ars Elecronica and is carried out with support of the AEC.
STWST48 / 2015 - Crashing the Info
STWST48x2 / 2016 - Non Stop. Not Comply
STWST48x3 / 2017 - MIND LESS
STWST48x4 / 2018 - SLEEP
STWST48x5 / 2019 - STAY UNFINISHED
Deckdock / 2009 - ongoing
86 Meter Riverbank in the Center of Linz - Close to the Nibelungenbrücke
- Reuse 2014
- Boje - Die Unterwassercam.
- Weidenbank 2010 - 2013
- Pollererichtung - MS Wissenschaft - MS Negrelli
DoNAUtics doNOWtic / 2011 - ongoing
Art after “New Media”.
Donautics is a group of artists, boat people and programmers who are working on and with vessels. Vessels/island have to be intependend and and work autonomously. This vessels could be seen as islands in our global world of information.
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Each year we invite a up to 6 artists to come to Linz on a Boat in the Linzer harbour. For local artists we have a Boats as a residence place in Monnickendam(Amsterdam) and in Hamburg.
- Mycelium Network Society - @Eleonore 2017; taro, Shu Lea Cheang, Franz Xaver
- Radio Active - @Eleonore 2016 Shu Lea Cheang
- Karkatag kolektiv - @Stadtwerkstatt 2016
- infoDETOX Residence, Linz - @ Eleonore 2015 curated by Shu Lea Cheang
- THE SOFT, THE HARD & THE WET Residence, Linz - @ Eleonore 2014 curated by Shu Lea Cheang
- FIELDWORKS Residence, Linz - Fieldwork Labs - @ Eleonore 2013 Curators Statment by Armin Medosch
- HORIZON Residence, Linz (artists and new media actors) - HORIZON Labs - @ Eleonore 2009/10/11/12 curated by Franz Xaver
- FLOATING BODIES & SPACE Residence, Linz- Floating Bodies & Space Labs - @ Eleonore 2012/13 curated by Tanja Brandmayr Text: If I were a Boat - Curators Statement
- JUNIX Residence, Amsterdam (artists and new media actors)- m-dam Labs - @ Junix 2011/12/13 curated by Franz Xaver
TREFFPUNKT AFRIKA / 2010 - ongoing
“Treffpunkt Afrika” is a biennial format that has already been implemented in 2010, 2012 and 2014. It will also take place in Sept 2018. Stadtwerkstatt has a multidisciplinary approach with concerts, film screenings and the heart of the festival - a high-caliber symposium.
Stadtwerkstatt as Public Space / November 2017 - ongoing
The STWST takes up the issue of “publicity and displacement”, which LINZimPULS has launched. In the public areas of the STWST, it is to be noted that the problems of society as a whole are not only clearly visible here, but that the repressions that are happening elsewhere in the city have increasingly had to be absorbed in recent years. From November 2017 onwards, the STWST declares the public areas of the house to the research zone with the working title “Die Stadtwerkstatt as Public Space”.
Everything gone well so far.
NEW CONTEXT STAGING / November 2017 - ongoing
New Context Staging in 2018 is a format, that seeks to accommodate contemporary performative trends, as it enriches with a special approach of Stadtwerkstatts New Art Contexts. New Context Staging settles per se in progressive directions, as it sees itself underpinned by several aspects of STWST.
Veranstaltungen / ongoing
Besides music events or lectures various formats and events are continually organized in the context of the art and from a political point of view. Here are some examples. ALL NEW ART CONTEXT EVENTS.
Webshop / ongoing
The Stadtwerkstatt-Webshop is a current “Project” of the Stadtwerkstatt because it is in the revision mode. Nevertheless, find nice things under: