Performances—Flood the Zone with Courage @Pavilion against Indifference

Nancy Bates - Photo: Ben Sercy

Flood the Zone with Courage

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Performances—Flood the Zone with Courage @Pavilion against Indifference

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.

POSTCITY, First Floor, Pavilion against Indifference
Wed 3. Sep 2025 10:30 – 11:00
Wed 3. Sep 2025 13:15 – 13:45
Wed 3. Sep 2025 18:00 – 18:30
Thu 4. Sep 2025 10:30 – 11:00
Thu 4. Sep 2025 13:15 – 13:45
Thu 4. Sep 2025 18:00 – 18:30
Fri 5. Sep 2025 10:30 – 11:00
Fri 5. Sep 2025 13:15 – 13:45
Fri 5. Sep 2025 18:00 – 18:30
Sat 6. Sep 2025 10:30 – 11:00
Sat 6. Sep 2025 13:15 – 13:45
Sat 6. Sep 2025 18:00 – 18:30
Sun 7. Sep 2025 10:30 – 11:00
Sun 7. Sep 2025 16:30 – 17:00

  • 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.

  • Youth Exchange Project Intervention

    create your world (AT), c3 (HU), mb21 (DE), Only Tomorrow Association (RO)

    For the Youth Exchange Project, creative and socially engaged young people from various countries come to Linz to collaboratively develop diverse forms of peaceful protest.

  • Drag Intervention

    create your world (AT), c3 (HU), mb21 (DE), Only Tomorrow Association (RO)

    Our intervention Handtaschenweitwurf is a playfully orchestrated middle finger to all those who cling to gender norms and stereotypes. We want to throw away all those repressive attributions and restrictive expectations—symbolically written on purses and handbags.

  • 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.

  • My Data Is Bigger Than Yours

    Ilona Roth (AT/DE), Alina Lugovskaya (UA/RU), Selina Nowak (AT), A!KO Tanz Fest (KR/AT), Digital Shadows (AT)

    Curious about who owns your data? Join a thrilling wrestling match and dance battle where rivals fight for control—a playful yet sharp take on the public debate around data ownership.

  • Flood the Uncanny Valley

    Digital Shadows Performing Artists Team (IT/AT/DE/RU/UA/GB)

    Dancers and Actors will inhabit the “uncanny valley” near the main exhibition of Digital Shadows, interacting with visitors around the question: “Who owns your data?”

  • The LUM:ORA Manifesto

    Christiane Steinlechner (AT), Isa Stein (AT)

    How can we find shared ways of coexistence and communication? The performance highlights the complex personal and societal impacts of language, pointing toward an equitable and sustainable future.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

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!