Experiment 2b
Feministische Forderungen sind tragbar
2002-2004
Tanya Bednar, Carola Dertnig, Petja Dimitrova, Anita
Fricek, Kristina Haider, Juma Hauser, Lisa Holzer, Katharina Lampert, Ursula
Mayer, Sascha Regina Reichstein, Patricia Reschenbach, Nina Stuhldreher, Katrin
Tag, Sofie Thorsen
The platform >a room of one's own< presents the results of current research.
Questions of gender identity and influences and the relevance of feminist
concerns in the worlds of everyday life and work are addressed in conversations
with artists and theorists. Which strategies exist for arranging social processes
according to the necessities that women claim?
A precondition for intervening in social contexts is a permanent self-positioning.
In this way, the exchange of experiences among women becomes a catalyst for
delineating crucial objectives and differences, which can ultimately create
an awareness for possibilities for political agency as well.
In their presentation in the Grafisches Kabinett, >a room of one's own<
reflects on communicative processes, provides insights in conversations, interviews
and narratives, and conveys statements to the exhibition audience in a condensed
form. An audio installation enables visitors to extensively explore the interview
material. Skirts especially produced for the exhibition, which may be purchased
by exhibition visitors, are printed with questions and statements taken from
the discussions. Because of their simple rectangular cut, the skirts can be
easily transformed into banners with political messages. A demonstration video
playfully explains the practice of wearing skirts and using banners.
Over the course of its history, the skirt has been an article of clothing
for both women and men. Accordingly, it is used in this exhibition as a metaphor
for gender bending. Starting from an expanded concept of space, wearing skirts/carrying
banners takes the statements and demands out of an art context into the surroundings
of everyday life. Feminism is not a separate discourse, but has significance
for the whole of society. Feministische Forderungen sind tragbar! (feminist
demands are fitting)