“Beim Gendern entsteht Urin” / “Beim Gendern entsteht Gin”, 2025
Man muß die spRACHE quälen, bis sie schreibt
dySTOPie / dySTOPia solo intervention-performances in public space, different locations, Austria 2021 intervention-performance and protest walk in public space, within the “Week of Contemporary Art”, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2022 “dySTOPia” was realised as group short-term interventions-performances on “STOP” road signs along a predetermined route in the city centre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria as art of the “Week of Contemporary Art” in 2022. The participants, together with the artist an agent-provocateur (protest facilitator), walked a short route in the city and made interventions-performances in public space to protest and reflect on the dystopian aspects of society nowadays. The ephemeral interventions-performances were taking place on pre-selected “STOP” signs. Using two signs with the text “DY” and “IA” (see photos). Participants were briefly holding the signs “DY” and “IA” from the two sides of the “STOP” sign, so that the word “dystopia” was formed. At each of the stops was protested against a specific dystopian feature. The idea was to draw attention to already existing or intensifying dystopian features in our contemporary society, economic system and world order. Some political, social and environmental emergencies of our time that could be classified as dystopian (a dystopian society usually has at least one of the following characteristics from this non-exhaustive list):
The intervention-performance “dySTOPia”, although minimalistic and symbolic, protests and briefly occupies, but is not destructive, rather like any protest, it is a sign of a desire for change on the part of conscious individuals. A poetic and beautiful gesture of human beings who have left, albeit briefly, their comfort zone and the diabolical cycle of everyday life.
“dySTOPie” was realised for a first time as a series of solo intervention-performances in the city of Graz and the region of Styria in Austria during one of the lock-downs in 2021. And later in 2023 realised as sculpture piece, an assisted readymade and and exhibited in the foyer of Next Liberty in Graz, Austria (see “sosEINdrücke”).
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