With NEBELKEGELN, STWST is creating a continuous installation and a two-evening event featuring bowling in the fog. What will the participating combatants play? This year’s Stadtwerkstatt art event NEBELKEGELN stages a spectacle of reduced visibility, diffuse events, invisibility, and unverifiability with its bowling tournament in fog. A game is played in the fog, but reality and results cannot be discerned: from decentralization to disorientation. Flooding the zone with fog. The fog is the media. THE MEDIA IS THE FOG IN YOU.
The art event NEBELKEGELN is a game and an exploration of parameters of media, technology, art, and life. NEBELKEGELN is also a paraphrase and reorganization of the earlier Stadtwerkstatt project GLASFIEBER: While this project featured a bowling tournament with glass pins as a splintering reality, with NEBELKEGELN we take the short path to dissolution.
The NEBELKEGELN project is based on actor-network theories, theories of quasi-objects and unpurified states, an immanently given setting of simultaneous yes and no, a YES-NO of the diffuse states in between, in which situations and results are merely being faked.