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With STWST48x10 NOPE, Stadtwerkstatt is holding the 10th edition of its annual 48-hour non-stop showcase extravaganza STWST48 in September 2024:

With NOPE, STWST is responding to ramped up optimism. In the midst of multiple crises, totalitarianism and toxic hallucinations, hope itself becomes to hope. Or even a category of struggle - but for whom or against what?

And that's how it looks in the brave new world out there: a dismantling society that still pretends we are rebuilding. Attitudes that perpetuate political stances that should have been disposed of long ago. People who have become tools of their own optimisation and raw materials. A technology that has become total. A species on the edge.

STWST moves between Not Real and Not Really with the shadowiness of a succinct NOPE and focusses on its core themes: New contexts, unmediated art, critical production, increasing the contradictions, imagination as material, intentional reorganisation of means. More than ever, STWST is refusing to work through topics and is focussing on principles and various comments. We show the house as a continuum of criticism and anti-spectacle. The house loses nothing and forgets nothing.

In 2024, STWST48x10 NOPE once again means forty-eight hours of genre-free art and critical production in the Anti White Cube of the building. With allies and accomplices STWST shows uncleaned art contexts, exhibition pieces, performances, brings discourse and text transformation and mixes everything with two nights of music and sound.

Throughout the building: NOPEtimism of the will. Walk through a palace of pessimism or through a future of solved problems. Decide for yourself what will happen!

Sounds like a disaster? YOPE, you are right.

STWST48 is a STWST's 48 hours showcase-extravaganza in September - held in cooperation with Ars Electronica. STWST48 invites international artists and also shows new art contexts developed in and around Stadtwerkstatt. With NOPE Stadtwerkstatt is doing it‘s 10th edition of the annual 48-hours-nonstop-showcase-extravaganza.

Stadtwerkstatt is an artist-run space and has been an art, club and autonomous structure since 1979. In the context of new media and media art, the place has a history of meaningful projects since the 1980s, and did also since then cooperate with Ars Electronica. Nowadays Stadtwerkstatt is active in the areas of New Art Contexts, runs STWST Club and the Cafe Strom, STWST media channels such as the print Versorgerin and other art and discourse formats. In an ongoing practice of redefining art contexts, STWST is about positions that work between art, media, critique, music, underground and the intermingled spheres of STWST. All STWST. All current New Contexts projects. All previous projects since 1979.

STWST48x10 NOPE - in cooperation with ARS ELECTRONICA.
STWST48x10 NOPE - in cooperation with servus.at
STWST48x10 NOPE - in cooperation with Tangible Music Lab
STWST48x10 NOPE - in cooperation with discotec
STWST48x10 NOPE - in cooperation with Übergangssenat Nachlassende Dynamik

STWST48x10 is accompanied by numerous texts in the newspaper Versorgerin #143
STWST48x10 is accompanied by numerous radio contributions on Radio FRO - on air from 6. Sept. 2024

STWST48x10 NOPE. 48 Hours of various comments: Concept und Curation: Tanja Brandmayr, Jan-Nahuel Jenny, Ralf Petersen Curation Nightline: STWST New Art Contexts and Paul Krackowizer. Curation TecTales: Tina Kult. Curation 10x10x10 of Media Arts: Shu Lea Cheang, Franz Xaver. Curation Tangible Music: Martin Kaltenbrunner, Enrique Tomas. Support Exhibition and Discourse: Davide Bevilacqua für servus.at. Editorial Office Versorgerin: Claus Harringer, Tanja Brandmayr. Editorial Office STWST48 on Radio FRO and Press: Claus Harringer. Social Media: Paul Krackowizer. Graphics: Jan-Nahuel Jenny. Additional Graphics Website and Website: Michael Aschauer. Documentation Photo: Astrid Benzer Documentation Video: Ralf Petersen. Shirt Printing: Josepha Krüger. STWST CORE TEAM: Tanja Brandmayr, Jan-Nahuel Jenny, Ralf Petersen, Franz Xaver, Claus Harringer, Paul Krackowizer, taro, Dodo Schuster, Elke Singer, Patience Nduwayo. More Team: Bastian Lehner, Micha Gerersdorfer und tba. Kitchen: Martin Gamsjäger, Eva Grün and tba.

STWST48x10 NOPE - All Artists and Producers: S()fia Braga, Johanna Bruckner, Susanna Flock, Jiawen Uffline, Dasha Ilina, Andreas Zingerle/Kairus, Linda Kronman/Kairus, Robert Collins, Maite Cajaraville/Piksel, Gisle Froysland/Piksel, Winfried Ritsch, Tian Fu, Atousa Falamarzian, Zlata Zhidkova, Antuum, Claudia Reiche, Helene von Oldenburg, Michael Aschauer, Jonas Hammerer, Laura Wegscheider, Veronika Lesniak, Ralf Petersen, Franz XAVER, Tomi Lehner, Eva Grün, Flo Panhölzl, Mario Bergamasco, taro, Laurin Doepfner, Claus Harringer, Tanja Brandmayr, Astrid Benzer, Elke Singer. All 10x10x10 of Media Arts Participants: Raqs Media Collective, Disruption Network Lab, Matthew Fuller, Auriea Harvey, Galerija Kapelica, VNS Matrix, Constanza Piña, Quimera Rosa, Winnie Soon, Mike Stubbs. Nightline Artists: Mario Bergamasco, Tot Onyx, Isabella Forciniti, Merche Blasco, Yuko Araki, Alex Audiobomber Jöchtl / Dr. Didi Bruckmayr, Francesco Zedde / Tonto, Kaiju meets Rheuma3000 feat. Herbert Pirker: Kasho Chualan, Christian Reiner, Tamara Wilhelm, Daniel Lercher, Philip Pi Leitner, Herbert Pirker.
Cafe Strom DJ Line: c'clair & Nyunya, I-ID, Mika Bankomat, Mess KJ, ronit amon.
Special Art Edition All Bloodproof Participants Appearance: 314159, Aderieg, Michaela Akman-Mayer, Nastja Ambrožvič, bune, Astrid Benzer, Emma Boom, Tanja Brandmayr, Linus Ywain Brandstätter, Floriama Candrea, Eva Debevc, Anna Despends, Claudia Dworschak, Elisabeth Ertl, Ina Fischer, Flo, Gams, Georg, Rulitza Georgieva, Micha Gerersdorfer, Simon Gmajner, Eva Grün, Sonja Hart, Ibrahim, Samir, Dankrun Infamia, Diotima Infamia, Edeltrud Infamia, Kalypso Infamia, Scholestika Infamia, Ulva Infamia, Wunna Infamia, Jan-Nahuel Jenny, Gabriele Kepplinger, Stephan Kepplinger, Flo Klabacher, Theresa Klabacher, Dominik Kreil, Anika Kronberger, Stefan Krummenacker, Bastian Lehner, Juan Linares, Bart Lootsma, Dr. Ursula Maria Lücke, Melitta Luong, Jul Marian, Mars, Jonas Martschin, David McDonald, Kartoffel Mehlig, Tamara Mihalic, Rafael Müller, Aleksandar Murkovic, Okambo, Onur Olgaç, Giac O’ Moe, Jörg Parnreiter, Matthias Pitscher, Eva Pondrik, Anna Portenkirchner, Diane Pricob, Stefan Prielinger, Lisa Rastic, Aban Salehi, Raphaela Salhofer, Theresa Schubert, Olivia Schütz, Natascha Schwaiger, Timon Schwarz-Wissel, Oona Valarie Serbest, Mariia Serhiienko, Daniela Silberstein, Silvana Steinbacher, Annika Strassmair, taro, Antonio Tricoli, Joana-Sophia Vangelova, Daphne Varekamp, Felix Vierlinger, Lisa Vollovec, Valerie vom Hofe, Gaga Vulvovic, Holger Watermann, Katharina Weinberger, Xaver, Aylin Yilmaz, Antionio Zingaro, Antionio Zingaro Jr.
All Übergangssenat Programm: tba

Stadtwerkstatt provides press material for STWST48x10 NOPE, as well as for all participating projects and artists - if possible, talks, interviews and more can also be arranged. Enquiries and contact at: office@stwst.at

Stadtwerkstatt has formulated a Code of Conduct for its year-round activities, which also applies to STWST48:
STWST Code of Conduct

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