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**STWST**
**STROM GALERIA**
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**The 48-Hours-Return of Pictures on the Wall**
24 Pictures on the Walls of Cafe Strom
Cafe Strom, Fri + Sat 14:00-04:00, Sun 14:00-18:00

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**The 48-hour return of pictures on the walls: The hung picture is not quite dead yet.**

Hanging pictures have degenerated into an anachronism since the art manifestos of the 20th century. The hung picture may not be dead yet, but it has been smelling funny for a long time. And also the concept of 'Flachware' has virtually abolished the legitimacy of the picture. On the other hand images flood the screens and devices - commercially, ideologically, conservatively, arbitrarily, irrelevantly or as digital 'flachware' in the bubble. The digital art market takes care of the rest.

With Strom Galeria we ask the question about images, media, collections. We reference a new conservatism that merely stacks images digitally. We show - as an act of resistance of the materialised images - on a picture wall in Cafe Strom exemplarily some works from more than 40 years of Stadtwerkstatt history. Highly incomplete and unspectacular. The pictures relate to media projects, information, nature - and above all an examination of an art after the new media. Contexts, structures, counter-strategies, the preparation of means are hidden behind each picture. And sometimes the necessity to use the means against themselves: All projects are about the perennial strategies of expanded contexts, open channels and their enemies. We emphasise the timeless aesthetics of this attitude as a political act. 

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//Images up to the ceiling were shown in the summer of 2021 as part of electropixel 11 at Plateforme Intermédia in Nantes/F, as part of the APO33 and STWST Exchanges.//

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**2 no-content images** were inserted into the Strom Galeria. The examination of images, media, materialisation and dematerialisation is found in several places: At [[ŦɏŁᵻⱣⱥ Mania]] and on the STWST façade, we reference (for fun) the collections of the art history museums that hang their pictures up to the ceiling. At the [[https://stwst48x7.stwst.at/en/the_grid_museum_-_baustelle_der_zukunft|Grid Museum]], on the other hand, the pictures hang neither higher nor lower; instead, it is about the dissolution of spaces as they were. Here, a completely different image transfer per radiowaves takes place to the infinity of electromagnetic space. 
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The picture wall of the Strom Galeria is a project of the **STWST:** Photos behind acrylic, different sizes. The projects shown are identified on site. The STWST projects can all be found in the [[https://newcontext.stwst.at/en/history/start|Online Archive of the STWST]].
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