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Fšreningen JA! och Lilith Performance Studio bjuder stolt in till

 

Privilege Walk/Symposium

- feministiska och intersektionella aspekter pŒ samtidskonst

 

6-7 september 2008, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmš, Sweden

 

Med Privilege Walk vill vi skapa en plats fšr att fšrdjupa oss i feministiska och intersektionella aspekter pŒ samtidskonsten, kvalitetsbegreppet, representation och konstproduktion som en politiserad situation. Syftet Šr bland annat att lŠra oss mer om hur makt bibehŒlls genom samverkande maktstrukturer, att undersška och utarbeta metoder fšr att bryta ner dessa maktstrukturer.

 

Vi har valt titeln Privilege Walk fšr att markera att vi vill problematisera och kritisera vŒra egna privilegier. Vi vill diskutera och omvŠrdera begrepp som systerskap, patriarkat och solidaritet. VŒrt mŒl Šr att symposiet ska peka ut en framtida riktning.

 

Programmet finns att lŠsa lŠngst ned i mailet.

 

Hela symposiet Šr gratis. FšrelŠsningarna, performance och filmvisningen Šr šppen fšr alla, ingen fšranmŠlan krŠvs.

 

Workshopsen har ett begrŠnsat antal deltagare och vi ber er dŠrfšr att anmŠla dig i fšrvŠg. Skicka ett mail till info@foreningenja.org med ÒAnmŠlan: workshopÓ i subject, ange fšrsta-, andra- och tredjehandsval samt ditt namn och telefonnummer. Om du har anmŠlt dig till en workshop och fŒr fšrhinder - var vŠnlig meddela detta sŒ att din plats kan anvŠndas av en annan deltagare.

 

Hitta till Lilith Performance Studio http://www.hitta.se/ViewDetailsPink.aspx?Vkiid=WeiVyN64fR9P8P3pyTlYcA%3d%3d&vad=Lilith+Performance+Studio&var=

 

CafŽ Banjo kommer att finnas pŒ plats och sŠlja lunch och fika under hela helgen.

www.cafebanjo.se

 

Symposiets huvudsprŒk Šr engelska men ingen behšver vara expert pŒ sprŒket fšr att delta, vi hjŠlps Œt att šversŠtta frŒgor och svar!

 

Vi ser fram emot en intressant helg tillsammans med er!

 

HŠlsningar

Styrelsen fšr Fšreningen JA!

Malin Arnell, sa ElzŽn, Johanna Gustavsson och Line S Karlstršm

samt medarbetare fšr Privilege Walk

Marit …stberg, Camilla Backman och Anna Linder.

 

www.lilithperformancestudio.com

http://foreningenja.blogspot.com

www.foreningenja.org

info@foreningenja.org

 

Privilege Walk genomfšrs med stšd av Stadsbidrag fšr kvinnors organisering och jŠmstŠlldhetsprojekt, IASPIS, Malmš KulturnŠmnd.

Lilith Performance Studio drivs med stšd frŒn Stiftelsen Framtidens kultur, Malmš kulturnŠmnd, Statens kulturrŒd, Folkuniversitetet, Kultur SkŒne.

Sponsorer: Beckers FŠrgservice, AV SYD AB, Svanstršms Repro AB.

 

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The YES! Association and Lilith Performance Studio proudly invites you to

 

Privilege Walk/Symposium

- Feminist and intersectional aspects on contemporary art

 

September 6-7 2008, Lilith Performance Studio, Malmš, Sweden

 

With the symposium Privilege Walk we want to create space for a deepened discussion about feminist and intersectional aspects on contemporary art, the notion of quality, representation and art production as a politicized situation. The purpose of the symposium is to learn how power is maintained through interacting power structures and examine efficient ways of dismantling those power structures.

 

We have chosen the title Privilege Walk to indicate that we want to problematize and criticize our own privileges. We wish to discuss, examine and re-articulate concepts such as sisterhood, patriarchy and solidarity. Our aim with the symposium is to point out a future direction.

 

You can find the complete program further down in this mail.

 

The symposium is free of charge. The lectures, performance, film screening and film program is open to the public, no registration is needed.

 

The number of participants in the workshops is limited, therefore we ask you to register beforehand. Send an email to info@foreningenja.org with ÒRegistration: workshopÓ as subject. Indicate first-, second- and third choice and your name and phone number. If you have registered participation in a workshop and are prevented from coming, please let us know so somebody else can take your place.

 

Map and directions to Lilith Performance Studio

http://www.hitta.se/ViewDetailsPink.aspx?Vkiid=WeiVyN64fR9P8P3pyTlYcA%3d%3d&vad=Lilith+Performance+Studio&var=

 

CafŽ Banjo will be present and sell lunch, coffee and snacks during the entire weekend.

www.cafebanjo.se

 

The official language during the symposium will be English, but nobody needs to be an expert on this language to participate, we will help each other with translations as we go along.

 

We look forward to an interesting weekend with you!

 

Best wishes

Board of Directors of the YES! Association

Malin Arnell, sa ElzŽn, Johanna Gustavsson and Line S Karlstršm.

and co-workers for Privilege Walk

Marit …stberg, Camilla Backman and Anna Linder.

 

www.lilithperformancestudio.com

http://foreningenja.blogspot.com

www.foreningenja.org

info@foreningenja.org

 

Privilege Walk is kindly supported by Stadsbidrag fšr kvinnors organisering och jŠmstŠlldhetsprojekt, IASPIS, Malmš KulturnŠmnd.

Lilith Performance Studio is kindly supported by Stiftelsen Framtidens kultur, Malmš kulturnŠmnd, Statens kulturrŒd, Folkuniversitetet, Kultur SkŒne.

Sponsors: Beckers FŠrgservice, AV SYD AB, Svanstršms Repro AB.

 

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Privilege Walk/Symposium

- Feminist and intersectional aspects on contemporary art

 

PROGRAM

 

Saturday, September 6

 

10.00 Registration

 

10.30-11.00 Introduction        

The YES! Association

Presentation of the YES! Association and the symposium

 

11.00-12.30 Lecture        

Kuratorisk Aktion

Privileges Deconstructed: Curating Across the ÔNorth South White Colored Male Female Straight Queer Normal Abnormal Corporate Corporeal Individual State Subject ObjectÕ Divide of Global Capitalism.

The collaborative Kuratorisk Aktion situates curatorial practice in relation to economic, social, and cultural divisions and hierarchies produced and preserved by the current capitalist world order. This is an introduction to their work.

 

12.30-13.30 Lunch

 

13.30-15.30 Workshops

Jeuno JE Kim (workshop 1)

How to Construct a Feminist Workshop That DoesnÕt Fall Apart in 2 Hours – A performative lecture, a collective reading aloud, a conduction of autointerviews.

A performative lecture leading into a collective reading aloud from a selection of Fredrich Nietzsche's aphorisms combined with sections from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, dealing with the master-slave dialectics. The workshop will end with a session of ÔautointerviewsÕ.

 

Victoria Kawesa (workshop 2)

Feminist transnational dialogues – White privileges and sisterhood.

Using transnational dialogues and understanding as starting points, questions regarding whiteness and sisterhood in relation to feminism are to be discussed. What does white privileges entail? What does feminist sisterhood entail? What are transnational dialogues in a globalised world?

 

Malin Arnell (workshop 3)

Not Cancelled Due to Rain. Interactions and re-valuation exercises in the context of MšllevŒngstorget.

The workshop will be about action and interactions, it will deal with our experiences and different forms of understanding. We donÕt know yet but something will absolutely happen – but for sure not everything.

 

16.00-17.30 Lecture          

Paula Mulinari

Intersections of inequality, intersections of resistance.

Taking Malmš and the inequalities shaping this special place as a point of departure, Paula Mulinari will discus the link between intersectionality and resistance.

 

18.00-19.30 Film screening

Privilege by Yvonne Rainer

Privilege (1990) begins with a documentary style exploration of the taboo subject of menopause and goes on to explore the historical medicalisation and trivialisation of women. The film doesn't take on a pat victim mentality in its exploration but rather widens its focus to consider the many competing forms of discrimination that exist in our society.

 

19.30

Dinner, bar, DJ and world famous band - Fabulebbs & the Sensational Stage Dyke

Fabulebbs & The Sensational Stage Dyke is an incomparable lesbian experience that gets straight to the point.

 

 

Sunday, September 7

 

10.00-11.00 Performance         

Privilege Walk with Johanna Gustavsson

Privilege Walk is a pedagogical tool used to understand the intricacies of privilege e.g. ÒIf you were ever called names because of your race, class, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation, take one step back.Ó ÒIf your parents were professionals: doctors, lawyers, etc. take one step forward.Ó This collaborative performance aims to mark the privileges of all of us participating in the symposium.

 

11.00-12.30 Lecture             

Angela Dimitrakaki

Gender and Labour in Contemporary Art.

The lecture will discuss the work of contemporary artists in relation to globalisation and gender. Specifically, the argument will consider how the socio-economic processes described as ÔglobalisationÕ have possibly generated a new interest in labour relations which is evident in art today; transformed contemporary art practice in ways that bring it closer to hegemonic forms of labour as defined in political theory; and, finally, that such changes become greatly visible once attention shifts to the gendered artist, that is – and this is said with some irony – the Ôwoman artistÕ.

 

12.30-13.30 Lunch

 

13.30-15.30 Workshops

Mujeres Publicas (workshop 4)

The workshop will focus on political actions from a creative perspective; to work and act to produce an alternative to traditional ways of understanding political demonstrations. The objective is to denounce, make visible and to favour reflections about different forms of oppression against women.

 

Ellen Nyman (workshop 5)

ÔThe best intentionsÕ – A privileged walking tour!

The theme of the workshop is to deconstruct our own power positions and to define the contexts we usually do not prioritized and the reason why. To actively become aware of different ways of acting will be dealt with using our own experiences and practical visualizations.     

 

Athena Farrokhzad (workshop 6)

Collective writing.

What could a text be if it belonged to everyone and nobody? What are the aesthetics and politics of collective writing, and what is it good for? What power relations are there in collaborative textual processes? The workshop introduces possible theoretical tools for

collective writing and puts them to practical use collectively.

 

16.00-17.30 Lecture             

Vanja Hermele

The Thanks, but no Thanks.

A short guide through the most common, but not very rational explanations why equality is out of the question when it comes to Art and Culture.

 

17.30-19.00

Conclusion, summary and evaluation

 

Saturday and Sunday

A film program, curated by the YES! Association will be presented continuously on two monitors in the bar. It includes a selection of videos that in different ways relate to the overall theme of the symposium. The program tries to outline what intersectionality can be and how it can be strategically implemented.

 

Complete program and the participantsÕs short bios are included in the attached pdf-file.