September 21 – October 14, 2007
Sos-State of Sabotage – Consulate and Embassy Parking Space, Karmeliterplatz / Paulustorgasse
Opening of the Consulate / Parking Space: September 21, 2007, 10 PM
Availability: September 22 to October 14, 2007
On August 30, 2003, during the “Micronations” festival on the inhabited island of Harakka just off of Helsinki, Sabotage Communications declared itself a state and changed its name to “SoS – State of Sabotage”. SoS is everywhere, it is a territorial phantom with no defined territory. SoS citizens are nomad-izing or de-territorial-izing groups. Wherever SoS – State of Sabotage manifests itself – from Australia to Austria – it subverts existing systems by dissolving state-regulated properties and borders. This is also the case in Graz.
During the Steirischer Herbst festival, a consulate will be opened in the middle of the fairgrounds and a parking space in the city center converted to an official embassy parking lot of “SoS – State of Sabotage”. SoS citizens can utilize the parking space for two hours, free of charge, by displaying a custom-made parking meter in their cars. By posting two official signs with the message “No Parking – Except for SoS state vehicles”, urban as well as state terrain is re-demarcated. The SoS parking space is a shift of state borders (Austria), a new state demarcation (SoS), as well as a sculpture by Robert Jelinek. It is a transnational ingress on national territory.
Information regarding application for SoS citizenship:
State diplomacy is conducted through artistic sovereignty and trans-nationality – art as state as a direct form of inde- pendent state art.
Settlement coming soon