Official Opening – Act of State. The State of Sabotage (SoS) will embark on an official state visit to the donaufestival 06 in Krems. During the Krems festival SoS will temporarily establish an embassy in the form of a self-contained sofa (Moni Emvasia, Greek for “sole entry”) with an official signpost in the city park near the fairgrounds. During the official opening in the frame of the festival opening, not only will the state anthem be intoned, but the ground will be furnished with an “SoS Gate.” The Gate is a manhole cover emblazoned with the SoS coat of arms – a symbol of state boundary shifting, new state demarcation, and a sculpture by Robert Jelinek.

During the festival in Krems, the SoS Sofa will serve as a location for artistic discussion and debate. Each day will be devoted to a discursive, socially relevant topic, significant to the State as well as to the donaufestival. Under the topical direction of Didi Neidhart as moderator, the Sofa will establish itself as a venue for intellectual as well as artistic exchange – a kind of “speakers’ corner” (see below for program).

The embassy will remain open for the entirety of the festival during the listed times. On April 30, Sabotage Square, together with its signpost, will be relocated to the protective island below the Krems art mile and will continue to function as a protected free zone of the State of Sabotage.

(Öffnungszeiten Botschaft: 21., 22., 27., 28., 29., April 13.00 Uhr bis 19.00 Uhr, 30. April, 17.00 Uhr Übersiedlung zum Kreisverkehr bei der Kunsthalle Krems)

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Program:
Moderation: Didi Neidhart
20.4., 7 pm: Opening, State actions
21.4., 1- 6 pm: Eröffnung der Botschaft des State of Sabotage
22.4., 1- 6 pm: We Take Prisoners – Sampling As Kidnapping
27.4., 1- 6 pm: Reality Is Only Temporary – Bodies, Gender, Sex & Sounds In Trans-Formations
28.4., 1 – 6 pm: Music As Sonic Weapons – Body Languages & Sonic Semantics
29.4., 1- 6 pm: phonoterritories – Doing Music As Doing Gender, Race, Class & Nations
30.4. 5 pm: Opening of Sabotage Square, SoS GATE, Anthem

Festival feat. acts:
Autechre, Mike Patton, Kool Keith, Peaches, David Toop, Gob Squad, Keiji Haino, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Mouse On Mars, dieb, Big Art Group: House of No More,Mogwai, Terre Thaemlitz, Vladislav Delay, Matthew Herbert, Faust, Architecture in Helsinki and many more…