Flood the Zone with Courage invites artists, activists, students, and citizens to develop new forms of protest—performative, participatory, and radically collective. At its core are a series of maximum 7-minute interventions, each one a brief but charged moment of action: a dance, a dialogue, a rupture, a ritual. Some unfold at the Pavilion against Indifference at POSTCITY, others take to the streets and squares of Linz—transforming everyday spaces into sites of civic imagination.
Urlaub ist keine Ausrede / Darya Bukreyeva - Photo: Darya Bukreyeva
Collection
Performances—Flood the Zone with Courage @Alter Markt
Old Town
Fri 5. Sep 2025
16:00
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17:00
Sat 6. Sep 2025
16:00
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17:00
Humans
Isabella Lee Arturo (CO), Mahla Mosah (IR), Martin Müller (DE)
This collaborative performance uses the methodology of “Embodying and Humanizing” data to understand the human cost of asymmetrical armed conflicts.
The Data Devourers
Digital Shadows Performing Artists Team (IT/AT/DE/RU/UA/GB)
Performers with giant heads as data powerholders play hide-and-seek, while you try to win back control by getting data release forms—raising questions about who really owns your personal data.
breathe
Jian Wei Hoe (SG)
What might a future look like—one in which humans are just a part of the whole? This auditory meditation experience aims to decentralize the future as a solely human experience.
A Trust Play
Fang-Yi Cheng (TW)
This live reading experiment embraces uncertainty and explores collective trust—not only as a test of what reading can be, but also as a quiet inquiry into cooperation, the unknown, and honest expression.
Urlaub ist keine Ausrede
Darya Bukreyeva (UA)
How can resistance become visible in what seems to be apolitical? Public space is temporarily transformed into a beach landscape—familiar, yet charged with political messages.
Flood the Zone with Courage—An Anthem
Nancy Bates (AU)
Nancy Bates, renowned Barkindji song writer, will present an anthem for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 and the Flood the Zone with Courage project—a direct response to the “Flood the Zone with Shit” politics we must currently deal with.
Restlessness
Alfredo Miralles Benito (ES), Jaime Redondo (ES), Pedro Fraguela (AR), Sayaka Fujio (CL/JP)
This performance transforms discomfort into a sonic protest, where the body becomes a tool for resistance and a call for collective civic engagement.
Please note: The program for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025 is still in progress.
We are currently preparing all the information for the website and plan to put the full program online in the coming days – stay tuned!