Subversive Fair
Press Release
18 March 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009 – Sunday, May 17, 2009
Hafenhalle09, Industriezeile 41a, 4020 Linz, Austria
As the world’s first counterculture trade show, the Subversive Fair will showcase more than 40 artists’ groups and individual activists from around the world presenting their latest subversive, rebellious, off-beat, seditious, witty and anarchistic works and activities, and thereby update attendees on what’s happening right now in the “resistance sector.”
The Subversive Fair’s mission is to engender a productive chaos out of a mix of practical tools, theoretical knowledge, activist interventions as well as political and artistic forms of resistance. New technologies, products and practices of cultural and political resistance will be put to the test to assess their effectiveness and suitability for use in daily life.
Fair visitors will be able to attend speeches, action tours, cabaret performances, book presentations and film screenings in an authentic trade show ambience at Hafenhalle09. Lots of workshops will impart subversive knowledge such as how to copy fingerprints or avoid surveillance cameras. There’ll be instruction in building a temporary, heated dwelling, and the Rebel Clown Army will offer training in civil disobedience.
The themes on which the Subversive Fair is focusing are derived from consideration of such issues as migration, surveillance, repression, exclusion from the systems distributing education, work and health care, as well as racism, sexism and censorship. The projects selected for inclusion at the fair can be divided into seven categories including law & order, work and continuing professional education, living & housing, and hobbies & leisure.
Rounding out the lineup of this very different sort of trade show are some great highlights: a gala evening affair, surprise concerts, queer cabaret, sound lectures, endless debates and interventions in public spaces.
SUBVERSIVE FAIR
PROGRAM
Opening Festivities
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7 PM
Evening Show Program
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 7-10 PM
Friday, May 15, 2009, 7-10 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 9 PM Party in Schloss Ebelsberg
Symposium
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 9:30 AM to 8 PM
Normal State of Affairs Amidst the Crisis
Possibilities of Radical Art Practices in the Heterogeneous Social Sphere
With Alejandra Aravena, Marina Gržinić, Ruth Noack, Gerald Raunig, Dmitry Vilensky and Stephen Wright
