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Stadtwerkstatt as Public Space
EVERYTHING GONE WELL SO FAR
The project “The Stadtwerkstatt as public space” was conceived as a long-term circulating research and art project in the public areas of STWST. The concept was conceived at the end of 2016/beginning of 2017 on the occasion of a call for projects by the City of Linz on the topic of “Publicity and Displacement”. The reason for this was a peek of problems in the public areas of the house, especially during the nighttimes, which were noticeable in many places in the city at the same time. In the concept, Stadtwerkstatt argued that due to the largely open accesses in the public areas of the building, it was not only necessary to deal with various situations, but that the displacement, that happened elsewhere in the city, increasingly had to be absorbed. In order to push the topic forward offensively, the approach was chosen to examine the Stadtwerkstatt and the Cafe Strom as the open space as it functions for years anyway - as a place of an autonomous and heterogeneous scene, determined and supported by informal rules and behaviour by house employees, but also by associated partners, project participants, cooperation partners, up to the guests.
In a practical implementation phase from December 2017 to March 2018, the public areas of the house were declared as a circulating performative and scientific research area. Two scientists and eight performers were involved in the project from Nov 2017 to March 2018.
At the beginning of the project, a text appeared in the Versorgerin. Furthermore, a publicly accessible discussion on the topic took place: Strom um sieben / 2018 March, 26th
Filmscreening "La Haine", Mathieu Kassovitz - March 25th, 9 p.m., Moviemento
Social Sleep
As part of the Long Night of the Stages 2018, a “Sleep Dance” will be performed on Nov 10th in the early evening hours in the Cafe Strom and in the public areas of the house - conceived in research/performativity contrary to the night zone.
Furthermore, a textbook is being planned - a quasi-libretto of the social and artistic space with reinterpreted actors.
In 2018, two diploma theses on the topic were published, which resulted from the work on the project “Die Stadtwerkstatt als öffentlicher Raum”. A further diploma thesis is still in preparation. More information will follow with the completion of the project.
2018, a second phase of research in theory and praxis begins in cooperation with Kepleruniversität.
With support from LINZimPULS.