Ade – Any Data Erasure

The performance duo a/o (Anna Watzinger/Olivia Jaques) is declaring the Local Digital Detox Day (which will be held for the first time the day after the AMRO Festival) and invites you to a communal data deletion day as part of the festival. In a durational performance in a public space in Linz (location to be specified depending on the rest of the festival programme), a/o will delete their own data from their digital infrastructure over the course of a working day (8 hours) and invite others to join in. We will delete old and new data from computers, phones, hard drives and the cloud; we will delete all files on our digital desktops, emails, photos, videos, music, texts, text messages, long-forgotten PDFs and downloads we never looked at; above all, we will delete cookies and cache and reclaim our right to be forgotten and to anonymity.