PIRATE CULTURES VIENNA. Kreative Strategien der Rückeroberung und Wiederaneignung in Wien
If you want a copy (digital or print), drop us a line! Pirate Cultures Vienna. Kreative Strategien der Rückeroberung und Wiederaneignung in Wien Publication, Vienna 2025 Editor Magdalena Scheicher, Sandkasten Syndikat Authors Magdalena Scheicher, Kollektiv Raumstation, Conny Zenk, Lale Rodgarkia-Dara, Ernst Tradinik, Patrícia J. Reis and Stefanie Wuschitz Grafic Design, Layout, Typesetting Joanna Coleman Proofreading Samuel M. Anthon, Magdalena Scheicher Consulting Joanna Coleman, Sandro Nicolussi Print DGS Buchdrucker ISBN 978-3-200-10279-8 Texts German, 132 p. Vienna 2025, 1st limited Edition Pirate Cultures Vienna is dedicated to artistic and cultural approaches in Vienna that aim to reclaim not only physical urban spaces but also digital, virtual and technological spheres. The anthology contains a series of articles by local representatives from various disciplines. Artists, activists, hackers, researchers and media makers were invited to share their approaches and ideas. Their actions and projects are rooted in the fields of art and culture, yet simultaneously extend beyond them. Such transdisciplinary approaches open up opportunities for alliances and emancipatory political resources under precarious living and working conditions. We understand pirate cultures as a multitude of cultural phenomena that have developed in response to a political climate of commodification and exclusion. Based on a series of self-organized initiatives, this book wants to tell not only of social struggles but also of collective utopian desires. In this context, artistic research is understood as problem-centered, but also as “fantastic and situated.” Kindly supported by Stadt Wien Kultur > Book Release Event (April 2025) © Milena Nowak
Von Pirat*innenschiffen und prekären Bewegungen
Von Pirat*innenschiffen und prekären Bewegungen Publication, Vienna 2024 Text: Magdalena Scheicher Editor: Sandkasten Syndikat/Magdalena Scheicher Grafic/Illustration: Joanna Coleman We published this little booklet accompanying two exhibitions in spring 2024, organized by the artist collective Sandkasten Syndikat. On May 1st, the artist collective Sandkasten Syndikat hijacked FLUCC Vienna (the ‚cultural steamboat‘ at Praterstern) and sent out an emergency signal to allied cultural workers: MAYDAY! Together with local actors from Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory, Kollektiv Raumstation, RAD Performance and friends, we searched for critical-creative answers to precarious living and working conditions. Including a discourse-theoretical debate, the publication brings together narratives of pirate care, civil disobedience and international precarity movements. > Pirate Cultures & Plunder Sonics: MAYDAY! > Pirate Cultures: Unter dem Asphalt der Strand Kindly suppurted by Stadt Wien Kultur