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?
STWST moves between Not Real and Not Really with the shadowiness of a succinct NOPE and focusses on its core themes: New contexts, unmediated art, critical production, increasing the contradictions, imagination as material, intentional reorganization of means. 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 glamorous anti-spectacle. The house loses nothing and forgets nothing.
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. With allies and accomplices STWST shows uncleaned art contexts, exhibition pieces, performances, brings text transformation and mixes everything with two nights of music and sound.
Throughout the building: NOPEtimism of the will. Walk through a palace of pessimism or through a future of solved problems. Decide for yourself what will happen! Sounds like a disaster? YOPE, you are right.
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Bloodproof of Life, Part Video Proof
In September 2023, STWST organized the format Bloodproof of Life—as a collective art action with real lifeblood. An appeal was made: Stadtwerkstatt gives you back your lifeblood—come and get it! 4 ml of blood was taken from volunteers. This was followed by several checks of the participants and their lifeblood, by survey, seal, blockchain, hash…
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STWST48x10 Media and Mars Archives: Shu Lea Cheang, Franz Xaver and Guests / 10x10x10 of Media Art (with an attitude)
STWST48x10 presents two media archive projects: 10x10x10 of Media Art (with an attitude) brings up 10 significant art works/events from STWST’s archive and invites 10 artists/spaces/collectives to correspond by bringing 10 works from their own archive or that of the larger media art field.
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TecTales @STWST48x10
TecTales is a multidimensional screening event and presents significant positions in contemporary video art and creates a dedicated and communal space where moving images can be experienced in their full length. For STWSTx48 NOPE, TecTales transforms into a 48-hour, non-stop cinema program and is delighted to present a selection of four short films.
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The STWST as a Ship
The STWST as a place of imagination and resistance—we imagine the building as a ship, mooring it to the square. A razzle-dazzle disorientation pattern on the building extends the façade as an artistic display. Parts of the wrecked ship Eleonore lie in front of the STWST on the square—as an explosion installation.
Stadtwerkstatt / STWST
The Stadtwerkstatt / STWST has existed since 1979 and is the first autonomous art and culture house in Linz. From the very beginning, it has been associated with a self-image of initiative, activism, subculture, and not least a practice of constantly redefining art contexts. In the context of new media and media art, the location has had a history of relevant projects since the 1980s. Today, the Stadtwerkstatt works in the areas of new art contexts, runs media such as the newspaper Versorgerin, the music club and the Cafe Strom. Between art, media, criticism, music, underground and the mixed spheres of the building, activities are formed that are comprehensive, interdisciplinary and motivated by artistic, cultural, technological and socially relevant intentions.
