The Camp
Opernring 5-7, 8010 Graz / Austria

But building a camp for this steirischer herbst also means building for artists, activists, theorists, for visitors, for the city of Graz, for its inhabitants. Building for content, building for the 24/7 enjoyment of being there, giving and taking, discussing, thinking for yourself, learning something new, having a different opinion, having a place where you can be left alone for a while, so as to be able to carry on watching, listening, singing along, getting tired, fighting it. Get a breath of air, go back in, take a break, moan about everything, grab a bite to eat, go to bed.
raumlaborberlin, who transformed the Joanneum into a festival centre at the 2008 steirischer herbst, gives the marathon camp a flexible form, linking the two buildings, the Thalia and Opernring 7, creating a landscape for working and living, a landscape that wants to be used. Not a turnkey facility handed over when the festival begins, but one that is constantly changing during the course of the marathon camp. And which will afterwards proudly sport the scars of a bustling week of living and working.
Adaptation
21/09 (2 pm) - 28/09 (4 pm)
00.00 - 24.00
Guided tours
Fri 21/09, 4.30 pm / 22/09 - 27/09, 12 noon, 2 pm, 4 pm & 6 pm / Fri 28/09, 12 noon & 2 pm
The question as to the relationship between art and politics is not only directed towards the outside. It also addresses the institution itself and its curatorial practice: therefore, the Prague-based exhibition-makers Zbyněk Baladrán and Vit Havránek see themselves more as inviters in this project: in a communal process, they not only develop the form, but also the main topic of “Adaptation” together with the artists – a laboratory for new paradigms, structures, hierarchies and forms of collaboration rather than an exhibition, a collective process that begins long before the opening and that will continue long after it has ended.
Alternative models of society and collaboration are the thematic bookends, which will also be put to the test. A collection of material put together by everyone will be constantly adapted, with groups arranging and rearranging themselves, anew creating joint and separate output. “Adaptation” creates an open space within the institutional art system, both for the artists and curators taking part and for visitors, who become co-authors.
More on Adaptation on the festival's website: www.steirischerherbst.at
The Mobile Archive – Video library

Camp Library
Camp: Library

For "Truth is concrete" The Piracy Project asks participants and speakers and audience of the marathon to provide books they have engaged with by adding thoughts, replies, challenges or any other alterations in the form of, for instance, annotations, underlined passages or ripped-out pages. These books make visible hidden dialogues between authors and their readers. Facsimiles of the original books will be produced and added to the camp library which will be open to the public during the whole festival.
www.andpublishing.org
Garden of biological disobedience
Camp: Bloghouse

Open call for contributions to the Garden of biological disobedience: //truth.vanillaforums.com
Studio 24/7 – Radio
Camp: Bloghouse

Mobile Salon – Hairdresser
Klosterwiesgasse 5, 8010 Graz / Free haircut, 3 pm - 7 pm

Network map of tactics & Network map of collaborations
Hall

Material
Interviews, Bibliography, Videos, …Video documentation
Tactic talks, lectures, panels, …Truth is concrete
A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real PoliticsSecond edition January 2015