STWST48x9 / bloodproof_of_life

Stadtwerkstatt & servus.at
BLOODPROOF OF LIFE

Collective Art Action with your Lifeblood
STWST Workshop Space

Permanent installation

Plus collective blood collection:
Fri, 8 Sept, 19:00-22:00
Sat, 9 Sept, 19:00-22:00

Bloodproof Meetup and Talk:
Sun, 10 Sept, 13:00-15:00

The Stadtwerkstatt gives you back your Lifeblood - Come and get it!

At the end of the AI moratorium, in the last summer before the total cloud, STWST transforms your lifeblood into a collective art event.

In the middle of a room about the beating humanist heart, professionals sit to draw your blood. Doctors take the small amount of 4 ml of blood from volunteers who still feel obliged. The vial is closed by Stadtwerkstatt. The process is assisted and confirmed by the additional cultural initiative servus.at.

You get your vial of lifeblood back in a multiple proof as a transformed and certified blood-to-art object. Then you then sit down in front of a camera that records and confirms the authenticity of your vial of blood, YOUR authenticity and your participation in the collective lifeblood project. The proof of participation in the collective Herzblut-Lifeblood project is also provided by a blockchain, which also provides another PROOF OF LIFE.

Your Lifeblood has thus become part of a collective art action and art edition.

So anyone can not only be an artist for 15 minutes, but become part of the collective lifeblood blockchain FOREVER.

We invite artists, critical producers, programmers, theorists, colleagues, the audience of STWST48 and the entire Ars Electronica - in other words, every part of the system of art, society and technology - to ask the question of what life is.

It is about lifeblood as a resource, about inner operating systems of engagement, about a manifesto against the beating and smashing forces of capitalism, about tempered blood in the midst of the cold-warm turn of the Anthropocene, about a counter-phantasm in cold transhumanism.

Or even quite personally: life takes your heart blood every day. Tell us what was taken from you and from whom, from the world, its capers and catastrophes, from your friends, your job, Google, Amazon, Microsoft or even the STWST or your own cultural association itself - everyone wants Herzblut … and WE will give it back to you, at least on these two days.

Is your life alive?

Come by!

Want your Lifeblood back?
Fri, 8. Sept, 19:00-22:00
Sat, 9. Sept, 19:00-22:00

Want to sell your Lifeblood on the art market??
Sun, 10. Sept, 13:00-15:00

Concept - all checks and balances: Tanja Brandmayr, Jan-Nahuel Jenny, Claudia Dworschak, Claus Harringer, Jörg Parnreiter, Gitti Vasicek, Franz XAVER
Concept, texts, artistic direction - your life is alive: Tanja Brandmayr
Screen Visual - beating trans/humanist heart: Claus Harringer
Final Questionnaire - smashing ceremony: Davide Bevilacqua, Tanja Brandmayr
Bloodproof Blockchain - as a hashchain: Infolab/Franz XAVER
Bloodproof Video - on camera: Claudia Dworschak
Bloodproof MC - thank you for your lifeblood: Gitti Vasicek
Medics - your blood is real: Dr.med Andreas Aigner, Dr.med Siegfried Gierlinger
Register&Questionnaire - knows no nation: taro, Angelika Daphne Katzinger, Jan-Nahuel Jenny
Bloodproof STWST - open society: STWST’s Valarie Serbest, Fina Esslinger, Gabi Kepplinger, Dagmar Schink, Olivia Schütz
Assisted Bloodproof servus.at - open source circulation: Davide Bevilacqua, Dasha Ilina, Aileen Derieg
Bloodproof Awareness - isn't gender blind: Mika Egal, Sarah Mo Praschak, sugar pa!
Bloodproof Grafics - wants his lifeblood back: Christoph Ginzinger