Sourdough #4 (Workshop)
Stumbling and Falling! Questioning City Narratives.
with Karli Raber and Mika Bankomat from F.I.S.T.
::When:: Fri., Jan 30 // 16:00–19:00
::Where:: servus.at Clubraum, c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz servus' Clubraum c/o Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, 4040 Linz
Based on the city walk STOLPERN conceived by the association F.I.S.T. in 2025 (https://fist.servus.at/projekte/stolpern/), this workshop invites participants to engage in a joint critical reflection on the urban history of Linz.
The STOLPERN project and its associated city walk recontextualized monuments and locations in Linz, clarified their Nazi-era connections, pointed out antisemitic, racist, and/or ethnic-nationalist content, and highlighted patriarchal content that has solidified in the city over time. Existing monuments, which tell stories of a fascist and patriarchal past and present, were contrasted with monuments that do not yet exist, whose outlines were sketched through performative exercises.
F.I.S.T. invites participants in this workshop to stumble together over places, memory culture, and the structures of the city of Linz, and to discuss collapsing narratives and speculative reappropriations. Starting from individual perspectives on the city, we will imagine designs for new monuments, talk about research work, and explore strategies of falling.
BIOs
F.I.S.T. is an association from Linz that follows an intersectional queer-feminist understanding and positions itself as anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. Since 2023, F.I.S.T. has been active in Linz, designing and organizing events in the field of socio-political education, aiming to promote social discourse and exchange on queer-feminist topics and to advance societal transformation toward an equitable society.
Feminist intersectional society terror!
The workshop is led by:
Karli Raber
Karli Raber researches social power structures and their embodiment—at the university, while dancing, and as part of various queer-feminist collectives.
Mika Bankomat
Mika Bankomat is active as a critic of the (cultural) structures of the city of Linz. Using moments of failure and irritation as an artistic strategy, Mika attempts to ask questions and provoke answers. Mika’s own work consists of auditory approaches to sound structures, testing them for their political impact. With a musical focus on disharmony, anti-music, noise, and confusion, Mika is active both in groups and solo.
The workshop will be conducted mainly in German.
Register here >> https://umfrage.servus.at/index.php/394931?lang=en