pack your beamer, grab your laptop, pick your video.
BYOB Linz is taking off on Thursday, September 1st and Friday, September 2nd.
BYOB
is an exhibition concept by Dutch artist Rafaël Rozendaal. “Bring Your
Own Beamer” is a series of one-evening-shows where artists team up with a
beamer of their choice to project their videos in a gallery setting.
(see byobworldwide.com). BYOB
Linz is hosted by grrrilla galleries, a time-spaced gallery temporarily occupying public spaces, currently
consisting of Nina Wenhart, Ina Fischer, Sandra Krampelhuber and Felix
Vierlinger.
From aug 31st to sep 6th, the Ars Electronica
festival is taking place in Linz. BYOB Linz is not an official part of
the festival. but as ars electronica was always meant to be a festival
for the artists, we started looking for & found many empty
time-spaces within this festival's schedule that could be claimed and
taken over by artists. to change from a visitor into an active
participant, "bring your own beamer" - set up as a series of grrrilla
galleries - seemed to us like a perfect format for this purpose. anyone
who wants to participate is welcome to simply come along, bring their
videos and beamers and start projecting.
we've planned on doing two evenings of BYOB during the festival week.
the dates & locations we have chosen for these events are:
Thursday, September 1st, starting at 22:00, @ the underpath next to the ars electronica quarter
&
Friday, September 2nd, starting around 21:30 (after the prix ars gala), danube park in front of brucknerhaus
(in case of rain, we can provide umbrellas)

in
addition to these two planned events, we want to encourage anyone to
find their own time-space slot for more BYOB grrrilla galleries. to help
you find such a slot, we've adapted the official ars electronica
festival's schedule and highlighted possible slots in time and space
that seem interesting for a BYOB..
the are no "rules" other than to
(1) find an empty slot in the festival's schedule as not to interfere
with the official program and to (2) stage it in a place where there
already is an audience.

borrow-a-beamer: for those of you who travel to Linz without a beamer:
we've organized a couple of beamers that people could borrow &
share.

remote-participation:
and as many of you cannot be in Linz physically, but might still want
to participate: we are putting together a playlist that will be about an
hour long. upload your video to the "BYOB Linz - grrrilla galleries"
group on vimeo to be included in the program.

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the grrrilla galleries only exist in time-space.
they
are born out of a lack of a physical space we can permanently occupy,
coupled with the desire to make, create, exchange and become active.
currently, grrrilla galleries are: Nina Wenhart, Ina Fischer, Sandra Krampelhuber & Felix Vierlinger

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BYOB is an exhibition format conceived by Rafaël Rozendaal. Find out more about past BYOBs on byobworldwide.com