A project by Social Impact within the frame of Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture.

As the first trade fair for counter culture and resistance technology the Subversive Fair presents recent projects/actions/works  ...and poses questions: which inventions make resistance easier? Which ideas undermine the system? Where are revolutionary forces lurking? What can we do to successfully dissolve hegemonies?

Concrete Themes

• New technologies, products and practises of cultural and political resistance will be tested in relation to their everyday potential and impact.
• The effects of recuperation - the appropriation of subversive techniques by capitalist (culture) industry, as well as the intertwining of the advertising, fashion and music industries with the sex appeal of active political resistance - will be thematised and discussed.
• Subversion often rubs up against the realm of legality or collides with it. Therefore, questions about punishment and/or repression will be raised (e.g. refusal of funding, silencing through the media, but also imprisonment).
• Further events such as lectures, moderated talks, (product) presentations, action tours through the fair, workshops dedicated to the transfer of specialised knowledge and techniques, as well as the experimental and playful testing of ideas, technologies and strategies will complete the fair's programme.

Statement

We want to bring together various aspects of counter culture and resistance technologies and forms. The active participants (exhibitors) represent the political and artistic view on global and local situations and open it to the fair visitors in the framework of a traditional trade fair. Means of resistance and counter culture form the "economy" of discontent and injustice.