Program:
10:00 - 16:00 Uhr: Vorträge & Diskussion
20:00 - 23:00 Uhr: Lesungen & Performances

FRIDAY, 17th of June

LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS
10am to 4pm
Host: Max Höfler
10am – 12:30pm
Stefan Schmitzer, Kinga Toth, María Mencía, Ann Cotton, Jörg Piringer
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm – 4pm
Robert Herbert McClean, Mara Genschel, Álvaro Seiça, Olga Pek, Clemens Schittko

READINGS & PERFORMANCES
8pm to 10:30pm
Host: Max Höfler
Stefan Schmitzer
Kinga Toth
Jenan Selcuk
María Mencía
Marek Sturmvogel
Ann Cotton
Jörg Piringer
Robert Herbert McClean
Mara Genschel
Álvaro Seiça
Mathias Traxler
Olga Pek
Clemens Schittko

SATURDAY, 18th of June

LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS
10am to 4:30pm
Host: Max Höfler
10am – 12:30pm
Margento, Katarzyna Gielzynska, Ulrich Schlotmann, Jazra Khaleed, The Geminii
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm – 4pm
Jaap Blonk, Steven J. Fowler, Daniela Seel, Ralf B. Korte , Stefanie Sargnagel

READINGS & PERFORMANCES
8pm to 10:30pm
Host: Max Höfler
Alexander Micheuz
Margento
Katarzyna Gielzynska
Ulrich Schlotmann
The Geminii
Jaap Blonk
Steven J. Fowler
Daniela Seel
Benediktas Janusvidius
Jazra Khaleed
Ralf B. Korte
Stefanie Sargnagel

From Mai to June Forum Stadtpark Graz and three other European institutions for contemporary literature (Lettrétage – Berlin, Nuoren Voiman Liitto - Helsinki, Ideogramma – Nikosia) will carry out a project called CROWD which will host a literary bus-tour from Finland to Cyprus featuring around 100 authors with the main aim of establishing a more interwoven network for European Independent-literature.
In the framework of this bus-tour we will also make a stop at the Forum Stadtpark, where the symposium Text World World Text – About the relationship between experiment, politics and literature will be held. On two days (17th and 18th of June, 2016) more than 20 authors from Europe and beyond, who are working in the field of so-called experimental literature will discuss todays role of the author in society and also offer an in-depth look on their literary and aesthetic approach and perspective.

There has always been a brisk interaction between the political and artistical/literary discourse. Especially considering the most recent political developments the question what kind of role the artist/author can and should play in a society, becomes even more urgent. Particularly relating to the more experimentally working authors the question arises which role new artistic forms and methods can play in this relationship between literature and society. Can these new forms possibly activate new emancipatory and society transforming potentials? Is it even possible for art/literature to be a means of emancipation? How political can art/literature be at all? What are the coercions and restraints the process of literary production is allegedly or actually subjected to? What kinds of strategies exist to escape from or to deal with these internal and external restrictions of the literary production?

Let’s exchange some strategies and points of view regarding this range of topics!



Participants:
Jaap Blonk (NL), Ann Cotten (AT/US), Steven Fowler (GB), Mara Genschel (D), Jazra Khaleed (GR), Ralf B. Korte (D), Purdey & Michael Lord Kreiden (GB/F), margento (RO), Robert Herbert McClean (IE), Stefanie Sargnagel (AT), Clemens Schittko (D), Ulrich Schlotmann (D), Stefan Schmitzer (AT), Álvaro Seiça (PT), Kinga Toth (HU) uvm.

Live-Stream:
stream.mur.at/forum

www.crowdlitbus.eu/#/event/43850