The HumorWorks show was recored on HFE betwen 9 – 11th of May, with randomly selected artists and curators of the HumorWorks exhibition, Dunja Kukovec and Katja Kobolt.
Interviews include discusions on festival/exhbition related topics.
As the editor of the online anthology SEXFLIES that focused on writings from EASTERN European women artists & writers, I was very let down when one of the Romanian-born writers, four days after the opening of the HACK.Fem.EAST show, wanted to have her writing removed from the anthology. This writer is now living in England since two or so years. I was told to contact her by another Romanian artist as she mentioned that her writing will fit in with the theme of SEXFLIES.
A conversation with Tatiana, who organized the exhibition together with Gaia Novati, about how they curated the exhibition, what the name hack.fem.east is telling us, what hacking has to do with sharing and a short impression of my cellphone ringtone ;-). (vd)
The video work Obsession by Grzinic and Smid, is presented as an installation that has as its central core the text by Natasa Velikonja, Ljubljana, “Europe is boring”. The text is published in Reartikulacija, the (online) critical journal platform edited by Grzinic and 3 other members part of the art scene in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Read here the text in English: http://www.reartikulacija.org
Berlin rocks, and women in Berlin dance. Berlin is big, it’s dirty,
it’s wild multicultural and cheap. Artists and young people swarm
there to live on social help given by the government (after one year
of any work) and do something else with their individual lives and arts.
Above are some more photos from the exhibition, including photos from the Walking-Apertivo yesterday.
You can find all our photos here, and more by Flickr user “Icia” here.
Two technologies revolutionised the roles of twentieth-century women: contraception and computers. Pregnancy is no longer the natural state for a woman. With tech tools women are not the weaker sex. After saying that, the next question naturally is: do”women” still exist? It’s hard to trace the former boundaries of womanhood,physical and emotional, rational and spiritual. Those invisible restrictions have been replaced by more visible restrictions in human rights, in job discrimination.
Erika Katalina Pasztor, who participated in HACK.Fem.EAST with the project Network of Thoughts [NoT], wrote a very interesting report of the exhibition. We consider these impressions and suggestions an important starting point for a collective reflection on our experience and we hope many more writings like this will follow.
Thank you very much, Erika!
Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati
Dear hackfemeasts,
Let me add some personal note, before we sink irreversibly into our regular lives.
Miss Information is an art project within the exhibition HACK.Fem.EAST in Berlin. Stickers all over the city encourage citizens to call a telephone number for Miss Information. As you might expect from the name, this is not your regular information number – instead you are connected with previous callers. Sometimes all you get is confusion, but you might also get a recommendation for a great place to have breakfast in Berlin, or find out why the sun is yellow…
Listen in on the calls:
Read more about Miss Information, a creation by Telekommunisten.
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