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RECYCLE
Cyberformance / live, 2021

As part of the festival Mobilise/Demobilise
Online performances exploring the theme “mobilise/demobilise”, 15-17 Octobe, 2021
mobilise-demobilise.eu/festival-programme

DorisJauk-Hinz, Recycle, Cyberformance / live, 2021

Rethink learned viewing habits and linking the eco-label with the sign for roundabouts, let supposedly familiar characters become another. One action is powerful, but a lot of actions make movements.

Photo:: Eva Ursprung, 2021 Mobilise/Demobilise began as an artistic response to a world of increasing conflict, crisis and emergency, before Covid19 lockdowns and travel restrictions forced us to live more and more of our lives online. Now, issues of human mobility and the impact of mobile technologies have become even more urgent. The unsustainability and inequality of the old “normal” can no longer be ignored, and we must imagine a new way forward. Mobilise/Demobilise brings a critical and artistic perspective to the current crises.

Over the past year, artists in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Aotearoa New Zealand have researched the theme and learned to use the online platform UpStage for presenting live online events. Different thematic threads have emerged in each locations. In Austria, the artists’ platform Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus Graz have asked the public what kind of a city they want, and how might the city look without cars. In Malmo, Sweden, Teater InterAkt is working with young skaters to understand their perspective on issues of mobility and the environment. And in Whakatu (Nelson, NZ) the historic shifting of the tideway is used as a metaphor for the relationship between human expansion and the natural environment.

The performances launch the newly “mobilised” version of UpStage, which now functions on mobile devices as well as desktop and laptop computers and incorporates many new features. Audiences click on a link and UpStage opens in a web browser; they can interact in real time via text chat and reaction emojis.

Mobilise/Demobilise is a Creative Europe funded collaboration between Teater Interakt (Sweden), Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz (Austria) and UpStage@CCT (the Centre for the Cultivation of Technology, Germany). Schaumbad’s participation is supported by the Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentliche Dienst und Sport (Austria).

Participating Artists:
Katharina Aschauer, Manel Ruiz Blas, cym, Parnian Faizi, Alexandra Gschiel, Eva-Maria Gugg, Doris Jauk-Hinz, Anita Hofer, Rebecca Hofer, Helen Varley Jamieson, Sara Larsdotter Hallquist, Jesper Miikman, Cecilia Nkolina, Keyvan Paydar, John-Paul Pochin, Lyn Russell, Sally Shaw, Vicki Smith, Eva Ursprung, Faye Wulff and Karl Wulff.

Kofinanziert vom Programm Creative Europe der Europäischen Union
Photo: Gudrun Lang, Screengrab of the performance >

Go Go Go
Artists from Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus Graz have been looking at car traffic in the city and in June 2021, they made a street performance in Neutorgasse. This was further developed in UpStage and now, under the title Go Go Go reflects on where the development should go. On Saturday 16.10. at 18:00 the artists will perform live from Schaumbad and local audience are welcome, also for the Sunday Art Brunch im Bad.

Created and performed by Katharina Aschauer, cym, Alexandra Gschiel, Eva-Maria Gugg, Doris Jauk-Hinz, Anita Hofer, Rebecca Hofer, Keyvan Paydar and Eva Ursprung.

Thanks to: Bundes Ministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentliche Dienst und Sport (Austria).

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