Fragments and continuities of feminist history: The essay film “Herzblutwiese Stadtwerkstatt” was completed in early 2026. The film addresses feminism, equal rights, and gender equality at the Stadtwerkstatt, the longest-running autonomous art and culture space in the city of Linz. In an environment of aesthetic innovation, social revolt, subversive power, and artistic-technological developments, the film interweaves text, interviews, artistic productions, and archive material from 1979 to the present day into a narrative with shifting perspectives—thus creating a larger social story that extends beyond the city.
At AMRO 2026, “Herzblutwiese Stadtwerkstatt” is addressed in several ways:
++ as a screening of the essay film, at Stadtwerkstatt, the site of the action.
++ as an installation of parts of the film set combined with film clips within the exhibition setting of AMRO 2026.
++ as an activation of the installation and the unreadable: For the original film shoot, the participating protagonists were invited to bring an object they associate with their time at the Stadtwerkstatt.
These objects were placed on stage elements during the film shoot as a “story of fragments and gaps”. The participants of AMRO 2026 are now invited, in the spirit of the AMRO claim “Becoming Unreadable”, or also to become readable here, to bring objects and items that further enrich the installation, ranging from subculture and counter-design to technology and feminism.
