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Presentation: INVASORIX @ Sound:Gender:Feminism:Activism 2014, London
INVASORIX presented “AQUÍ Y AHORA: Non-professionalization as a strategy” at the second Sound:Gender:Feminism:Activism (SGFA2014) research event, London College of Communication, 16th and 17th of October, 2014.
New text “Lucha libre: un espacio liminal” (in Spanish)
My text “Lucha libre: un espacio liminal. Lis exótiquis “juntopuestas” a las categorías clasificadoras, unívocas y fijas” was published in the anthology La memoria y el deseo. Estudios gay y queer en México (2014) R. Parrini y A. Brito (coord.) PUEG-UNAM.
Download the text (in Spanish)
More about La memoria y el deseo. Estudios gay y queer en México (in Spanish):
Una antología tiene sentido si compila artículos que constituyan un aporte a un campo de estudios. Es aún relevante cuando dicho campo apenas se está formando y nos encontramos en los inicios de una producción intelectual que debiera incrementarse en lo venidero. Ambas condiciones se cumplen en este caso. Los textos que compilamos son novedosos y constituyen un aporte a las investigaciones sobre otras sexualidades en México, son producto de largo trabajos de investigación y reflexión y están sustentados en un material bibliográfico y empírico muy sólido. Pero también representan un retruécano, por así llamarlo, a ciertas versiones ya establecidas de las historias e identidades minoritarias. En ese sentido, creemos que son textos de segunda generación en los debates que nos conciernen, lo que indica, a nuestro parecer, que existe una masa crítica de conocimientos que puede ser discutida. Si tuviéramos que dirimir el tono de los artículos diríamos que en ellos prima la audacia. Hay algo inaudito en muchos de los trozos escritos y pensados. Nuestros colegas se han atrevido a explorar mundos y subjetividades, historias y relatos, actos y pasiones, olvidos y subalternidades inéditos. La arqueología del pasado o la historia del presente son manifestaciones de un tesón personal, pero también colectivo, para explicar deseos, cuerpos e identidades así como instituciones, dispositivos y comunidades.
Rodrigo Parrini y Alejandro Brito (coordinadores)
Download new publication: “Artist as Audience: Nina Höchtl”
New publication
Artist as Audience: Talks Among the Audience
Nina Höchtl
The book Artist as Audience: Talks Among the Audience was published in Serbian in early 2014. It presented the project Artist as Audience:: Forum: Audience on Visual Artworks that runs since 2010 in Belgrade. The book contains 31 discussions of which 15 are completed with edited transcripts of the discussions.
After the Serbian version a booklet in English is presented to the public. It contains an introduction and a discussion on the work by Nina Höchtl.
Download the booklet in English for free: https://razgovori.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/artist-as-audience_nina-hoechtl.pdf
Publisher: Artist AssociationFrekvencija
Author and editor: MFA Boba Mirjana Stojadinović
Soft covers, b/w print, 48 pages
Format: 145 x 185 cm
ISBN 978-86-917153-1-1
This publication was made possible by the Austrian Cultural Forum, Belgrade.
2014.
Belgrade, Serbia
Lecture performance: “The VBKÖ’s Archive as a Site of Political Confrontation or How to Sing Out of Tune?”
At the Fourth Biennial Conference of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies UTOPIA EAM 2014 (University of Helsinki, August 29-31, 2014) – part of the panel “All Women Art Spaces As Heterotopias” – Julia Wieger and I presented the lecture performance “The VBKÖ’s Archive as a Site of Political Confrontation or How to Sing Out of Tune?”
The lecture performance focuses on the 1970’s activities of an all women art space in Vienna, which was founded in 1910 and is still active today: The Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (Austrian Association of Women Artists, VBKÖ). The VBKÖ initially campaigned for the artistic, economic and educational interests of women in the arts and rented a space in the center of Vienna, where it still is today. Despite its progressive beginnings, the association decided to collaborate with the Nazi regime in 1938. From the perspective of the nascent Viennese Feminist Art Movements in the 1970’s, the association had fallen into oblivion. Nevertheless, it was active in the 1970’s – it is just not clear what these activities were about. Who were the members? Did internal discussions about a post-Nazi position take place? Was there any contact to the local Feminist Artist Movements? We look at the space of the VBKÖ that existed unnoticed and in parallel to the feminist movements in order to not only figure out how we can still inhabit it today but also how a historical methodology might also be a political intervention into the present.
More on the panel:
ALL WOMEN ART SPACES AS HETEROTOPIAS
Saturday, 30th of August, 1:30-4:45pm
One of the important elements of the women’s art movement emerging in the 1970s was the creation of all women art spaces. They existed for a longer period of time or just during one exhibition or even one performance. They were to offer an alternative to the unfriendly reality of male-dominated art world and aimed at creating an environment where women artists could address the experiences of women. The most famous of them – Womanhouse (Los Angeles 1972) – has already been thoroughly analysed. This panel seeks to explore much lesser known women art spaces functioning in different European countries. Its focus will be on the 1970s but proposals that deal with initiatives that were undertaken later are also invited. Papers are expected to analyse ideas, forms of their implementation and effects of these diverse heterotopias. The panel chair’s proposal to characterise all women art spaces as heterotopias is to be discussed.
AGATA JAKUBOWSKA (chair), ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY, POLAND:
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
MONIKA KAISER. SA, GERMANY:
“KVINDEUDSTELLINGEN PA CHARLOTTENBORG” IN COPENHAGEN 1975 AND THE IDEA OF FEMINIST ART SPACE
KATY DEEPWELL. MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, UK:
WOMAN’S PLACE AND OTHER 1970S FEMINIST ART INITIATIVES IN BRITAIN
KATHLEEN WENTRACK. THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, USA:
1970S FEMINIST PRACTICE AS HETEROTOPIAN: THE STICHTING VROUWEN IN DE BEELDENDE KUNST AND THE SCHULE FUR KREATIVEN FEMINISMUS
KATIA ALMERINI. INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR:
WOMEN’S ART SPACES: TWO MEDITERRANEAN CASE STUDIES
JULIA WIEGER. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS IN VIENNA, AUSTRIA, AND NINA HOECHTL. NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO, MEXICO:
THE VBKÖ’S ARCHIVE AS A SITE OF POLITICAL CONFRONTATION OR HOW TO SING OUT OF TUNE?
Visiting Artist’s Presentation, May 12, UAEMex, Toluca (MX)
On May 12 at 11am I’ll talk about my artistic practice at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UAEMex in Toluca (MX).
Text in frauen*solidarität, Nummer 127 (1/2014)
My text “Wrestling Luchadoras and Female Masculinities: La Comandante and Martha Villalobos” is part of the new edition of frauen*solidarität (127 (1/2014)) with a focus on masculinity.
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