New Art Contexts and Club Culture

Autonomous Structures since 1979


Stadtwerkstatt Chronology

New Art Contexts and autonomous structures.
The history of Stadtwerkstatt since 1979.











Interviews with Founders of STWST
and
Navigation through Past with Cpt Mnemo

Cpt Mnemo erinnert sich 2019 an die 80iger und 90iger Jahre



HERZBLUTWIESE STADTWERKSTATT

The currently ongoing research project 'Herzblutwiese Stadtwerkstatt' addresses feminism, equal rights and equality in a sphere of aesthetic innovation, social revolt, subversive power as well as artistic and technological developments. It is about specifics of the scene, larger social questions and artistic, social and emancipative potentials that are carried forward into the present.



The Red Thread of New Media Art

Under the title Red Thread of New Media Art, various artists are invited to select images from the last 40 years from the STWST archive and their own archives in order to present different lines of development in the environment of the STWST and to contextualise them with their own works.


STWST Video Archive and STWST TV

Here are videos from the early STWST history and a “process art as media art” - or of STWST TV that produced interactive television before the digital media.




Old Websites - ca 1998
Foto: Baggerhochzeit 1987



Old Websites - ca 2008


Also: Old Webshop


Enter the Wayback Machine and take a virtual strole down Read-Only-Memory lane.




Documentary and photographic archive /since 2016

The document archive of Stadtwerkstatt was temporarily located at Bernaschekplatz. Also the photo archive of Stadtwerkstatt was set up there from 2016 to 2018. The document and photo archive then moved to Kunstlager Nord.

Here some historical photos, classified by Georg Ritter.


Kunstlager NORD /since 2017

In the North of Linz STWST has a new workplace as well as there is a storage for STWST's relics, documents and materials from 40 years of art production. Also the temporary archive from Bernaschekplatz moved to Kunstlager Nord.


Versorgerin Archive

Stadtwerkstatt publishes quarterly the newspaper “Versorgerin” - with the focus on contributions on Stadtwerkstatt as well as the transformation of politics and culture. Many authors of the Versorgerin stand in the tradition of Critical Theory.


Publications

Publications and more


Publications of STWST, catalogue contributions on STWST projects and the STWST in literature. Sorry, publicatiions only available in german.








Archive Club and Concerts /seit 1979

Since the early days of the 80ies Stadtwerkstatt invited music, which was quite significant and new for the city. Today, Stadtwerkstatt's music program revolves around contemporary trends between electronics, hip-hop and rock. STWST is also available for DIY events.