[spectre] Worldwide Premiere: Seeds Underground Party by Shu Lea Cheang

[Armin Medosch]

Shu Lea Cheang "Seeds Underground Party"
Germinate ! Broadcast ! Trade ! Track !

Measurement ship Eleonore, Linz, Am Winterhafen 29A,
Wednesday 12th of June 2013, from 6.30 to 9 pm.
http://www.seedsunderground.net/

In the context of the Fieldwork A-I-R programme, Paris based artist Shu 
Lea Cheang comes to Linz, Austria, and invites for a Seeds Underground 
Party. The monopolising tendencies of large seed producers in the USA 
and the latest attempts of the EU to draft a new seeds directive, 
motivate this invitation to exchange seeds in joyful people-to-people 
gatherings. Bring self-harvested seeds and sprouted plants to exchange, 
to adopt and germinate, to broadcast and track their distribution. "We 
share good foods and tales while waiting for the sprouts to rise up in 
early daybreak."

Just subscribe at Seeds Underground (URL: http://seedsunderground.net/) 
and join the event.


Fieldwork, Armin Medosch curates new Artist-in-Residency Programme of STWST

The residency of Shu Lea Cheang in Linz is part of a new 
Artist-in-Residency program curated by Armin Medosch on measurement ship 
Eleonore - a floating think-tank for transdisciplinary art by 
Stadtwerkstatt (STWST), Linz. A core interest are socially engaged 
artistic practices, whose model character makes them capable of 
producing alternative outlooks on how economics, ecology, technology and 
politics articulate their relationships. The Eleonore, its equipment and 
social environment, make it ideally suited to become a greenhouse of 
experimentation and participation from where interventions in 
techno-social patterns emerge.

The works developed during the Fieldwork residencies will be shown in 
the Fields exhibition, Riga May 15th to Aug 4 2014, at Arsenals 
exhibition hall, which is part of the Riga Culture Capital programme. 
The residency programme is part of an expanding interest of STWST in the 
relation of art with nature and to stimulate discussions and support 
networks of practitioners, through its A-I-R programme. The first three 
artists will be: Shu Lea Cheang (USA/FR), 1.- 15. June, Neal White (UK), 
19.-30. June, and Hayley Newman (UK), 19. August - 01. September.

Updates: http://donautics.stwst.at/