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                                              face="Arial">Lena
                                              Wicke-Aengenheyster</font></b></font><font
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                                          </b>Freitag 04. November 2022,
                                          19.00 Uhr<br>
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                                           <br>
                                        </font> <font face="Arial">Liebe
                                          Besucherinnen und Besucher!<br>
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                                        </font><font face="Arial"> Der </font><font
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                                            Erkundung multimedialer
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                                              face="Arial">Accomplices
                                              lädt am Freitag, 04.11.
                                              2022 um 19 Uhr zur
                                              Performance <i>Monsterfrau</i>
                                              der Wiener </font></font></font><font
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                                                face="Arial">Künstlerin
                                                Lena Wicke-Aengenheyster
                                                ein.<br>
                                                Anschließend gibt es die
                                                Möglichkeit zu einem
                                                Künstler_innengespräch.
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                                          Lena Wicke-Aengenheyster ist
                                          Performancekünstlerin,
                                          Musikerin und Entwicklerin
                                          tragbarer elektronischer
                                          Musikinstrumente, wearable
                                          musical instruments. In der
                                          Umsetzung ihrer künstlerischen
                                          Auftritte in den Bereichen
                                          Musik, Installation und
                                          „Underground Operas“ erkundet
                                          sie das Umgehen mit den
                                          Interrelationen von Körper und
                                          Musik. Fragen betreffend die
                                          Beschäftigung mit Macht,
                                          Autonomie Souveränität und
                                          Gebrauchstauglichkeit, sowie
                                          Bezüge zur Zeichenhaftigkeit
                                          ziehen sich durch ihre Kunst.<br>
                                          Seit 2018 befindet sich eines
                                          ihrer „soundcostumes“ als Teil
                                          der Ausstellung zu Wearable
                                          Technologies im Technischen
                                          Museum Wien.<br>
                                          Sie war Teil der
                                          Künstler*innengemeinschaft
                                          GOD’s ENTERTAINMENT in Wien
                                          2009, gründete die
                                          Performance- und
                                          Produktionsplattform
                                          STAATSAFFAIRE und tritt als
                                          Musikerin und in „Underground
                                          Operas“ als MONSTERFRAU auf.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          Accomplices gründete sich 2020
                                          im Rahmen von steirischer
                                          herbst’20. Kristina Gorke und
                                          Bernd Gutmannsbauer wurden
                                          aufgrund ihrer Expertisen in
                                          den Bereichen Kunstgeschichte
                                          und Philosophie eingeladen,
                                          die Künstlerin Sung Tieu einem
                                          Publikum vorzustellen. In der
                                          Folge entschieden die beiden,
                                          die Initiative auf eigene
                                          Faust und im Kontext des
                                          Vereins accomplices
                                          fortzusetzen.<br>
                                          Illustrator*innen,
                                          Skulpteur*innen,
                                          Designer*innen, sowie Film-
                                          und Musikschaffende werden
                                          eingeladen, um über ihr Wirken
                                          zu berichten - bisherige
                                          Gäste: Attila Rath-Geber,
                                          Kenji Araki, Clara Frühwirth,
                                          Sabine Hirzer, Steph Meisl,
                                          Jos Diegel, Eni Brandner,
                                          Florian Egermann.<br>
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                                          Außerdem haben Sie die
                                          Möglichkeit unsere aktuelle
                                          Austellung <i>MEIN KOERPER :
                                            MEINE MASCHINE</i> zu sehen.
                                          <br>
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                                          Wir freuen uns auf Ihren
                                          Besuch!<br>
                                          Reni Hofmüller und Ilse Weber<br>
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style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://esc.mur.at/"><span
style="color:navy;mso-ansi-language:DE-AT" lang="DE">esc medien kunst
                                                          labor</span></a></span><br>
                                                        <span
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href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9rE5wH5ajA9F3k4lRkBCTA"><span
                                                          style="color:navy;mso-ansi-language:DE-AT"
                                                          lang="DE">Youtube
                                                          Channel</span></a></span><br>
                                                        <span
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                                                          lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://esc.mur.at/de/videoarchiv"><span
                                                          style="color:navy;mso-ansi-language:DE-AT"
                                                          lang="DE">Vimeo
                                                          Channel</span></a></span><br>
                                                        <span
                                                          style="font-size:
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                                                          lang="EN-US"><a
href="https://www.instagram.com/esc_medien_kunst_labor/"><span
                                                          style="color:navy;mso-ansi-language:DE-AT"
                                                          lang="DE">Instagram</span></a><br>
                                                        </span></span></font></span></span></span></span></font></font><font
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                                            Erfahren Sie mehr über die
                                            Ausstellung: <i><a
                                                href="https://esc.mur.at/de/projekt/mein-koerper-meine-maschine">MEIN
                                                KOERPER : MEINE MASCHINE</a></i></font><br>
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                                        </font><font face="Arial"><br>
                                          <font color="#000000"><b>MEIN
                                              KOERPER : MEINE MASCHINE</b></font><br>
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                                          <font style="font-size: 12pt"
                                            size="3">Wie sehr ist mein
                                            Körper noch mein Körper,
                                            sofern er es je war?</font><br>
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                                          <font style="font-size: 12pt"
                                            size="3">Der menschliche
                                            Körper dient als
                                            Angriffsfläche der Macht, um
                                            einerseits auf das Subjekt,
                                            andererseits auf die gesamte
                                            Gesellschaft zuzugreifen
                                            (Michel Foucault), es sind
                                            es vor allem die großen
                                            Techkonzerne, die ihre Macht
                                            längst nicht mehr nur in
                                            ökonomischer Hinsicht
                                            ausüben und weiter ausbauen.</font><br>
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                                          <font style="font-size: 12pt"
                                            size="3">Diese Entwicklung
                                            wird aber auch von uns
                                            selbst befeuert. Nur allzu
                                            gerne sind wir zur
                                            Selbstkontrolle (Quantifing
                                            Self) bereit, trainieren,
                                            reparieren, rehabilitieren,
                                            modellieren, verschönern und
                                            technisieren unseren Körper.
                                            Die Selbstoptimierung wird
                                            dabei ständig von
                                            verschiedensten Programmen
                                            erfasst und die Daten den
                                            entsprechenden Industrien
                                            freiwillig und meist
                                            kritiklos zur Verfügung
                                            gestellt. Unter deren
                                            Einfluss steigt der Druck,
                                            eigenverantwortlich in unser
                                            <i>Körperkapital</i> zu
                                            investieren.</font><br>
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                                          <font style="font-size: 12pt"
                                            size="3">Die Faszination,
                                            die technische Geräte und
                                            die damit verbundenen
                                            Möglichkeiten auf uns
                                            ausüben, lässt uns scheinbar
                                            kritiklos werden, sogar den
                                            Human Enhancement Programmen
                                            großer Konzerne gegenüber.
                                            Nicht nur zur Zeit des
                                            Futurismus waren die Modelle
                                            des Maschinenmenschen noch
                                            mit Verheißungen und
                                            vermeintlich positiven
                                            Erwartungen verknüpft, auch
                                            am Beginn des Internets gab
                                            es die Hoffnung,
                                            biografische, kulturelle,
                                            sexuelle und soziologische
                                            Festschreibungen zu
                                            überwinden. Unterdessen
                                            wissen wir, wie sehr Normen,
                                            Vorurteile, Rassismen,
                                            Sexismen et cetera,
                                            eingeschrieben in
                                            Algorithmen, ihren Einfluss
                                            auf Körper (besonders auf
                                            den weiblichen) ausüben.</font><br>
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                                          <font style="font-size: 12pt"
                                            size="3">I</font><font
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                                                lang="en-US">st es die
                                                Vision des
                                                Google-Entwicklers Ray
                                                Kurzweil, der behauptet,
                                                dass die Menschheit mit
                                                Hilfe von Biotechnologie
                                                und künstlicher
                                                Intelligenz ihre
                                                biologischen Grenzen im
                                                Jahr 2045 überwunden
                                                haben wird oder sind wir
                                                (auch) schon längst
                                                dabei unsere physische
                                                Existenz aufzugeben, wie
                                                Paul Virilio meint:
                                                werden unsere
                                                stillgelegten Körper nur
                                                mehr zu Hüllen unseres
                                                Selbst, das Sein ein
                                                ständiges Online-Sein in
                                                einem nie endenden
                                                Datenstrom?</span></font></font><br>
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                                            lang="en-US"><u><b>Installationen:</b></u></span></font><font
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                                                  lang="en-US"><i>Kisses
                                                    from the Future</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  lang="en-US">, Ani Liu
                                                  (USA)</span></span></font></font><br>
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                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                  in purple</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                              style="letter-spacing:
                                              -0.2pt"><span lang="en-US">,
                                                Harriet Davey (GBR)
                                                & Imogen Davey (GBR)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  Left Hand</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                Nick Acorne (UKR/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                            size="3"><span
                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                Emanuel Gollob (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  Safe</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                Ninja Guru Studio (AUT)
                                                & Holunder Heiß
                                                (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  full color make up
                                                  session</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                            size="3"><span
                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                Hui Ye (CHN/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                            size="3"><span
                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                  of Life Care Machine</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                            size="3"><span
                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                Dan Chen (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                  of Self</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                                Lans King (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                              style="letter-spacing:
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                                            size="2"><b>Finissage</b><br>
                                            Freitag, 18.11.2022, 19.00
                                            Uhr<br>
                                            The Garden for 4x musicians
                                            with 4x eye trackers<br>
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                                                      mit Nick Acorne
                                                      (UKR/AUT)</span></span></span></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                        lang="en-US">steirischer
                                                        herbst</span></span></span></span></font></font></b><font
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                                          </font> 27.9. – 16.10., Di –
                                          So 11.00 – 19.00 Uhr<br>
                                          18.10. – 18.11., Di – Fr 14.00
                                          – 19.00 Uhr<br>
                                          und nach Vereinbarung,
                                          Eintritt frei</font><font
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                                                          Gefördert von:
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                                          Dear visitors!<br>
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                                        </font><font face="Arial">The
                                          association for the
                                          exploration of multimedia
                                          forms of expression
                                          Accomplices invites on Friday,
                                          04.11. 2022 at 7pm to the
                                          performance <i>Monsterfrau</i>
                                          by the Viennese artist Lena
                                          Wicke-Aengenheyster.<br>
                                          Afterwards there will be the
                                          opportunity for an artist
                                          talk. <br>
                                          <br>
                                          Lena Wicke-Aengenheyster is a
                                          performance artist, musician
                                          and developer of wearable
                                          musical instruments. In the
                                          realization of her artistic
                                          performances in the fields of
                                          music, installation and
                                          "underground operas" she
                                          explores how to deal with the
                                          interrelations of body and
                                          music. Questions concerning
                                          the preoccupation with power,
                                          autonomy sovereignty, and
                                          usability, as well as
                                          references to signifying, run
                                          through her art.<br>
                                          Since 2018, one of her
                                          "soundcostumes" is part of the
                                          exhibition on wearable
                                          technologies at the
                                          Technisches Museum Wien.<br>
                                          She was part of the artist*
                                          community GOD's ENTERTAINMENT
                                          in Vienna 2009, founded the
                                          performance and production
                                          platform STAATSAFFAIRE and
                                          performs as a musician and in
                                          "underground operas" as
                                          MONSTERFRAU.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          <i>Accomplices</i> was founded
                                          in 2020 within the framework
                                          of steirischer herbst'20.
                                          Kristina Gorke and Bernd
                                          Gutmannsbauer were invited to
                                          introduce the artist Sung Tieu
                                          to an audience due to their
                                          expertise in the fields of art
                                          history and philosophy.
                                          Subsequently, the two decided
                                          to continue the initiative on
                                          their own and in the context
                                          of the association
                                          accomplices.<br>
                                          Illustrators, sculptors,
                                          designers, as well as film and
                                          music makers are invited to
                                          report on their work -
                                          previous guests: Attila
                                          Rath-Geber, Kenji Araki, Clara
                                          Frühwirth, Sabine Hirzer,
                                          Steph Meisl, Jos Diegel, Eni
                                          Brandner, Florian Egermann.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          You also have the opportunity
                                          to see our current exhibition
                                          <i>MEIN KOERPER : MEINE
                                            MASCHINE</i>. <br>
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                                          We are looking forward to your
                                          visit!<br>
                                          Reni Hofmüller and Ilse Weber<br>
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                                                        more about this
                                                        project:</span></span></span></span></font></span>
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                                                      style="font-weight:
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                                                      is my body still
                                                      my body, if it
                                                      ever was?</span></span></span></span></span></font></font><font
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                                              style="background:
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                                              body serves as a contact
                                              surface of power to access
                                              the subject on the one
                                              hand, and society as a
                                              whole on the other, states
                                              Michel Foucault. He
                                              describes the reciprocal
                                              relationship between
                                              usefulness and compliance
                                              of the body in a politics
                                              of constraints; the human
                                              body enters into a
                                              machinery of exploitation.
                                              Today it is mainly the
                                              large corporations and
                                              internet platforms that
                                              have long exercised and
                                              further extended their
                                              power not just in economic
                                              terms.</span></font></font><font
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                                            size="3"><span
                                              style="background:
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                                              happy to self-regulate, we
                                              train, repair,
                                              rehabilitate, model,
                                              beautify and mechanise our
                                              bodies with cosmetics,
                                              fitness programs,
                                              supplements and medicines,
                                              surgical procedures,
                                              prostheses, implants,
                                              computer-brain interfaces
                                              and other technical
                                              enhancements. The effort
                                              and the results are
                                              recorded constantly by a
                                              range of programs and
                                              applications, and the data
                                              put at the disposal of the
                                              data-processing industries
                                              voluntarily and usually
                                              without criticism. Under
                                              their influence, the
                                              pressure to invest in our
                                              “body capital” in a
                                              self-responsible way
                                              increases, while
                                              non-compliance meets with
                                              sanctions.</span></font></font><font
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                                              style="background:
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                                              just in the age of
                                              Futurism that models of
                                              the machine man were still
                                              linked with promises and
                                              positive expectations, but
                                              also at the advent of the
                                              internet with its
                                              associated possibilities
                                              of a virtual body, a
                                              virtual life, e.g. in the
                                              form of an avatar in
                                              Second Life. There was
                                              hope that biographical,
                                              cultural, sexual and
                                              sociological fixations
                                              would be overcome. We now
                                              know the extent to which
                                              norms, prejudices,
                                              racisms, sexisms, etc.
                                              anchored in algorithms
                                              exert their influence on
                                              the body (especially the
                                              female body), whether in
                                              staging on social media
                                              platforms or on the
                                              virtual body on the
                                              internet.</span></font></font><font
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                                            size="3"><span
                                              style="background:
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                                              euphoric vision of Google
                                              program developer Ray
                                              Kurzweil, who claims that
                                              with the help of
                                              biotechnology and
                                              artificial intelligence,
                                              humankind will have
                                              overcome its biological
                                              limits, i.e. the decline
                                              and death of the body, by
                                              2045 – or are we already
                                              in the process of giving
                                              up our physical existence,
                                              in the sense of Paul
                                              Virilio, meaning that our
                                              disused bodies are merely
                                              shells of our self,
                                              digital interfaces, being
                                              as a constant online
                                              existence in a
                                              never-ending data stream?</span></font></font><font
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                                              lang="en-US"><u><b>ns:</b></u></span></font><br>
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                                                    from the Future</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  lang="en-US">, Ani Liu
                                                  (USA)</span></span></font></font><br>
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                                                  in purple</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                Harriet Davey (GBR)
                                                & Imogen Davey (GBR)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  Left Hand</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                Nick Acorne (UKR/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                Emanuel Gollob (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  Safe</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                Ninja Guru Studio (AUT)
                                                & Holunder Heiß
                                                (AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  full color make up
                                                  session</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                Hui Ye (CHN/AUT)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  of Life Care Machine</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                Dan Chen (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                                  of Self</i></span></span></font></font><font
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                                                Lans King (USA)</span></span></font></font><font
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                                              size="2"><b>Finissage</b></font></font><br>
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                                            size="2">18.11.2022, 7 pm</font></font><font
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                                            size="2">The Garden for 4x
                                            musicians with 4x eye
                                            trackers</font></font><font
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                                            size="2">Concert-performance
                                            with Nick Acorne (UKR/AUT)</font></font><font
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                                                      style="font-style:
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                                                        hours</b></span></span></span></span></font></font><br>
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                                                        lang="en-US">steirischer
                                                        herbst</span></span></span></span></font></font></b><font
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                                            27.9. – 16.10., Tue – Sun 11
                                            am – 7 pm<br>
                                            8.10. – 18.11., Di – Fr 2 pm
                                            – 7 pm</font><br>
                                        </font> <font style="font-size:
                                          9pt" size="2" face="Arial">and
                                          by appointment, free entry</font><font
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                                                        style="font-weight:
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                                                        by: Kulturamt
                                                        der Stadt Graz,
                                                        Kulturreferat
                                                        des Landes
                                                        Steiermark,
                                                        BMKÖS.</span></span></span></span></font></span><br>
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                                                        style="font-weight:
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                                                        attending the
                                                        event, you agree
                                                        to the recording
                                                        and use of photo
                                                        and video
                                                        material.<br>
                                                        esc medien kunst
                                                        labor |
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                                                        8010 Graz |
                                                        Telefon: +43 316
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