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Lifeblood Detection, Projection, Installation, Art Edition
Workshop
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In September 2023, STWST organised 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 and video proof. The authenticity of blood, participants, hash, chain, video and overall participation in the collective lifeblood project was confirmed in a reciprocal multiple proof. Finally, the participants received their ampoule of lifeblood back as a transformed, certified blood-to-art object suitable for the art market.

During its realisation at STWST, the format led to constant queuing. Topics between “lifeblood as a resource”, i.e. the internal operating systems of engagement, and the currently discussed extraction of resources and the best parts of people, their DATA, were critically reflected - as well as the technological and social regimes that make this possible.

This was the Bloodproof of Life as a collective art action with real lifeblood in the Stadtwerkstatt 2023.

In 2024, at STWST48x10, the video proof plus parts of the multiple checks are shown, plus an installative setting.

The VIDEOPROOF shows around 90 participants who wanted their lifeblood back.
They tested the authenticity of their lives in a multiple proof – and/or planned to go on the art market with their lifeblood.

On Occasion of STWST48x10 NOPE: Determination of the LIFEBLOOD Art Edition:

1 Hashchain Test STWST

2 Hashchain Test servus.at

3 Oona Valarie Serbest

4 Katharina Weinberger

5 Stefan Prielinger

6 Bart Lootsma

7 Aylin Yilmaz

8 Antonio Tricoli

9 Anika Kronberger

10 Dr. Ursula Maria Lücke

11 Flo

12 Michaela Akman-Mayer

13 Linus Ywain Brandstätter

14 Stefan Krummenacker

15 Sonja Hart

16 Onur Olgaç

17 Kartoffel Mehlig

18 Holger Watermann

19 Juan Linares

20 Theresa Klabacher

21 Flo Klabacher

22 Ina Fischer

23 David McDonald

24 Annika Strassmair

25 Floriama Candrea

26 Aderieg

27 Diane Pricob

28 Murkovic Aleksandar

29 Elisabeth Ertl

30 Lisa Vollovec

31 Aban Salehi

32 Jan-Nahuel Jenny

33 Infamia, Edeltrud

34 Infamia, Scholestika

35 Infamia, Kalypso

36 Infamia, Ulva

37 Infamia, Wunna

38 Infamia, Diotima

39 Lisa Rastic

40 Daphne Varekamp

41 Emma Boom

42 314159

43 Anna Despends

44 Infamia, Dankrun

45 taro

46 Micha Gerersdorfer

47 Simon Gmajner

48 Tamara Mihalic

49 Nastja Ambrožvič

50 Raphaela Salhofer

51 Claudia Dworschak

52 Tanja Brandmayr

53 Astrid Benzer

54 Jörg Parnreiter

55 Giac O’ Moe

56 Silvana Steinbacher

57 Valerie vom Hofe

58 XAVER

59 Timon Schwarz-Wissel

60 Mars

61 Eva Pondrik

62 Olivia Schütz

63 Eva Grün

64 Samir Ibrahim

65 Georg

66 Gaga Vulvovic

67 Okambo

68 Melitta Luong

69 Daniela Silberstein

70 Jul Marian

71 Jonas Martschin

72 Theresa Schubert

73 Anna Portenkirchner

74 Stephan Kepplinger

75 Bastian Lehner

76 Mariia Serhiienko

77 Matthias Pitscher

78 Gabriele Kepplinger

79 Eva Debevc

80 Antionio Zingaro

81 Rulitza Georgieva

82 Joana-Sophia Vangelova

83 Antionio Zingaro Jr.

84 bune

85 Dominik Kreil

86 Theresa Klabacher

87 Natascha Schwaiger

88 Rafael Müller

89 Felix Vierlinger

90 Gams

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BLOODPROOF OF LIFE, 2024, Videoproof, Installation and Determination of the Art Edition
Overall concept and realisation: Tanja Brandmayr/STWST
Video editing: Franziska Thurner

BLOODPROOF OF LIFE, 2023, Collective Art Action with your Lifeblood
8.-10. Sept 2023 at STWST Linz
A project of STWST
Conceived in the main parts: Tanja Brandmayr/Quasikunst
Relevant support: servus.at
All info and full line-up of the many great people involved:
https://stwst48x9.stwst.at/en/bloodproof_of_life

Stadtwerkstatt / STWST (A): The Stadtwerkstatt / STWST has existed since 1979 and is the first autonomous art and culture centre in Linz. From the very beginning, it has been associated with a self-understanding of initiative, activism, subculture and a practice of constantly redefining contexts. In media and media art, the location has had a history of relevant projects since the 1980s. Today, Stadtwerkstatt works in the areas of New Art Contexts, runs media such as the newspaper Versorgerin, runs 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. stwst.at

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Images: Videostills, Astrid Benzer

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