-----> this year again...
-----> next meetings
-----> help wanted/i have room for ladizz!
-----> fight the power
-----> call for films
-----> open stage
-----> photos from iris of Ladyspace-solidarity party with scream club
programm
-----> workshops
-----> open mega
-----> bands/performances (german and english)
-----> timetable
AN INVITATION!
LADYFEST 2005 IS IN THE MAKING! AND WE WANT TO INVITE YOU TO JOIN US IN ORGANIZING, DEVELOPING IDEAS AND PUTTING THEM INTO PRACTICE...
LADYFEST IS A
PLATFORM FOR FEMINIST, QUEER AND TRANSGENDER CULTURE. IT HAS ITS
ORIGIN IN THE “DO IT YOURSELF” CULTURE OF THE RIOTGRRRL MOVEMENT.
WHEN THE DENOMINATOR “GRRRL”, ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO EXPRESS A
REBELLIOUS ATTITUDE, WAS TRANSFORMED BY THE MUSIC BUSINESS INTO ITS COMERCIALIZED
FORM “GIRLIE”, FORMER RIOTGRRRLS APPROPRIATED THE TERM “LADY”
FOR THEMSELVES, AS A TERM BETTER SUITED TO TRANSPORT FEMINIST POLITICAL IDEAS.
THE FIRST LADYFEST TOOK PLACE IN 2000 IN OLYMPIA/USA. SEVERAL LADYFESTS HAVE
SINCE BEEN ORGANIZED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD –- ONE OF THEM
IN VIENNA IN 2004.
RECENTLY, A GROUP OF WOMEN HAS GOT TOGETHER TO BRING INTO BEING LADYFEST 2005. WE WANT TO USE AND PROFIT FROM THE LADYFEST IDEAS ALREADY IN EXISTENCE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE WANT TO BRING OUR IDEAS AND MEANINGS INTO LADYFEST 2005 AND DISKUSS THEM, THINK ABOUT THEM,... FINALLY REALIZE THEM IN THE COURSE OF A PROCESS OF DEFINITION WHICH IS ONLY JUST BEGINNING.
WE WOULD LIKE TO
CREATE A PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING LADYFEST 2005 WHICH IS A MIXTURE OF HETEROGENEOUS
STANDPOINTS, APPROACHES AND CONTEXTS.
SO WE ADDRESS OURSELVES WITH THIS INVITATION TO WOMEN, LESBIANS, TRANSGENDERS,
UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, MIGRANTS, WORKERS, STUDENTS, MUSICIANS, SERVICE PROVIDERS,
TECHNICIANS, ARTISTS...
SO THAT TOGETHER
WE CAN RAISE OUR KNEE OR OUR FIST AGAINST SEXISM, RACISM AND THE CAPITALIST
LOGIC OF EXPLOITATION!!!
Workshops
:::::
Intervention :::::
right at the start of Ladyfest05
a workshop will take place that deals with our wishes and goals for people
to act or not act during the festival. we will discuss/learn strategies for
taking the spaces we want and prevent sexist, racist, homophobic etc. behaviour
from any side.
:::::
genderfuck :::::
held by the sissy boyz, 10-15 participants (language: german/english)
drag is when your in disguise?
drag is more than putting a beard for lady or lipstick on a lad. there could
be more to it... double drag is the challenge. <be your own boydyke vs.
femme as you can> discover the senior citizen in yourself or even your
mother!
we bring make-up and beard and a few clothes... lets discuss the topics and
have fun
::::: politicial positioning of descendants
of nazi-perpetrators, supporters and profiteurs :::::
starting from my own history as a granddaughter of nazi perpetrators I want
to deal with questions such as: family´s history, sources of inheritance
and the history of accomodation we live in.
the workshop will focus on:
how to question (uncooperative) family members?
what exactly is it we want to know?
what does responsibility mean in such contexts?
are we responsible?
what kind of political strategies follow from these kinds of questions?
::::: Sexualität und Masturbation:::::
The
workshop focuses on the importance of sexuality in anarchist perspective of
struggle against all forms of domination, and on exploring the ways in which
our sexuality is constructed in patriarchal capitalist society, and the ways
of creating and developing sexuality that is not rooted in practices of forced
domination, inhibition and determination.
::::: The context is the content, let's
meet there! :::::
Workshop with Emma Hedditch, 4th – 9th Oct.
Desiring connection to Ladyfest Vienna and further autonomous activities
in the city. How can we show support for and open up more exchanges?
Emma Hedditch is an artist living in London. Emma’s work activates a
commitment to feminist politics, democratic media and a genuinely collaborative
and collective practice. www.andiwilldo.net
Emma will be in Vienna during one week from 4th to 10th October, and would
like to meet, work and build a project with persons in Vienna.
Questioning some of the existing institutional frameworks, systems and methods
that are active now, whether imposed or self-imposed and trying to avoid making
new ones, moving around, outside and inside, and between outside and inside,
but with self-reflection.
October 4th - Beginning at a self-organised space, Artmosphere
(www.artmosphere-vienna.net/) exploring production physically outside large
institutions, is it a radical system? Organised with friends and little money,
self-production, and an engaged participation as absolutely political. We
will begin in the evening, with food, a video screening and discussion, and
continue on the 5th with extended discussion and information exchange, what
can we do?
October 6th - At the Academy, if we are inside, what can
we do here? how did we get in there? what can we exchange across this system?
What is our position in it, for what can we use it?
Continued on the 7th and 8th of October, how and who should
represent these refusals and resistances, how can we write about this position,
and record what is happening?
October 9th - An imagined critical exchange, amongst an imaginary
fragmentary swarm of persons, who produce a representation of themselves enacting
production. Desiring connection to Ladyfest Vienna and further autonomous
activities in the city. How can we show support for and open up more exchanges?
Dates: 4th – 9th October 2005
Places: Galerie aRtmosphere, Holochergasse 32/ Top 1,
Entrance Plunkergasse,
A- 1150 Wien
Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien,
1. Stock,
M1 Department for postconceptual practices.
::::: other workshops and descriptions up to now only in german
here
there will be space for spontanous workshops or actions - be part
of LadyfestVienna 05
"open mega"
during Ladyfest05 we provide a megaphon to use as intervention-tool.
