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.
Ballot Ballet / Felix Henke, Rosi Pernthaller - Photo: Felix Henke
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Performances—Flood the Zone with Courage @Domplatz
St. Mary's Cathedral, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Domplatz
Sun 7. Sep 2025
16:00
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17:00
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Ballot Ballet
Felix Henke (DE), Rosi Pernthaller (AT)
The European Union is under pressure: National interests slow down progress, responsibility is passed on, decisions are postponed. Ballot Ballet asks: How does power in Europe function when responsibility becomes secondary? And what can I, as an individual, do about it?
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.
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.
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.