soiled love: caring for the wound - 2.4.2025 with Stoffwechsel - Ecologies of Collaboration

My work with Stoffwechsel - Ecologies of Collaboration is going into its 10th year. After having visited various autonomous zones and other concrete utopias in resistance against the ecocidal status quo we have focused in the last two sessions on sites of struggle that have been lost - like Hirschstetten in Vienna. We want to invite you for a praxis of mourning and caring for the wound in togetherness on the 2nd of April.

In recent years, Stoffwechsel – Ecologies of Collaboration has investigated autonomous zones and spaces of resistance where different concepts of the future collide. Where old, modernist futurisms and new, ecological forms of life clash as resistant practices, wounds often appear that last much longer than the struggles over them. The Stoffwechsel collective has set itself the task of staying with these wounds and caring for them in a kind of witnessing: to be there for the feelings that arise in such places of devastation and upheaval of the landscape; to linger where no one wants to stay – close to and in the pure transit zones of urban planning.

In this spirit, we are making a pilgrimage for the second time to Hausfeldstraße, where another urban motorway is currently being built with a considerable structural intervention in the former village structure of Hirschstetten and where the occupations against the construction of the Lobau motorway tunnel took place in 2021. 

We invite you to walk together, observe and perceive the still open wounds of an expanding city driven by automobilism and try to sense life and survival in these sacrificed zones.

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