Bildwechsel Warszawa: Liberate bodies! – zine exhibition
When we talk about the oppression or discrimination of an individual or a group by other groups, we usually think about its legal and social aspects. Some individuals and / or groups happen to be excluded or forced to live by the rules that they did not create, but that tell them where they can exist, what they are allowed to do, who they are or can become, and what their bodies are for. Second wave feminists defined private as political and noticed the connection between power and a human body. Until today liberation movements have been trying to emancipate bodies from social and political control, in order to give them back to theirs owners. Health, reproductive rights, sexuality and the right to autonomy of any person are the topics where the female body is still a battlefield.
The zine exhibition presented by Bildwechsel Warszawa focuses on this battle and attempts to liberate bodies from definitions and the control of other people. At the exhibition you will find underground press created in women’s and alternative movements on topics like: sexual violence, rape, abortion, children’s upbringing, transsexuality, transgender and health.
The zines will be available during the Days of Reproductive Justice in Warsaw , Oct. 24-25th at UFA (Al.Solidarnosci 82)
Add comment October 26, 2009
The Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Hamburg and Bildwechsel proudly present: The Chubsters!
Charlotte Cooper is a Journalist, Author, Activist, Academic and boss of the Chubsters – a radical queer girl gang. Meet Charlotte and her gang, flown in from London to present an extraordinary evening of fat queer films, stories and actions.
date: October 24th, 2009, 8:15 pm, B-Movie, Brigittenstr. 5, Hamburg
Links:
chubstergang.com
charlottecooper.net
For more information about the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Hamburg check out their website:
lsf-hamburg.de
info from ilovebildwechsel
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‘Experiments in Living’ film screening
Tuesday 22 September 2009
7:30pm : FREE
Venue: CCA 4 (cinema)
‘Experiments In Living’ is the Bildwechsel theme for 2009, and of our week long meeting in Glasgow (17th – 23rd September).
Our focus is on artists’ and women’s and queer communities, groups, ways of organising and working and living. The screening this evening includes work submitted following our joint Call for Films with LaD.I.Y.Fest Berlin, as well as work from the Bildwechsel archives.
A Year of Sisterhood – Åsa Elzén and Sonia Hedstrand, Sweden, 2005 (excerpts 18′)
Safe Slut – – a carnival through Valla Torg, Theresa von Hofsten and Therese Kristianson, Sweden, 2009 (6′)
The New Beauty Council presents the documentation of a staged midnight carnival performed by a group of women, challenging the values and social rules maintained by society with their own bodies as a tool and the masquerade as a strategy to move between different identities.
It is an investigation and action dealing with ideas of safety, danger, rape, the body, gender and space.
The group had beforehand met at several occasions to plan the performance and to discuss the potentiality of appropriating space with ones’ own body – if this experience on a personal level could change the meaning of the space and values given to it?
Collaborators: Thérèse Kristiansson & Theresa von Hofsten, Hannah Goldstein, Karin Drake, Maria Breide, Sara Ullman, Emma Lundqvist, Hedvig Nathorst-Böös. And many thanks to Memona Khamara and Line Dalmar for painting our outfits. http://www.newbeautycouncil.org/
Moving Home – Inger Schwarz, Koln (2′)
Im Gartenhaus – Eva Kietzman and Sabine Rollnik, Hamburg, 2008 (5′)
Reality Recycling – Kori Klima and Gaby Wiegelmann, 2009 (2′30″)
A photomachine in a learning process…
Zeroes and Ones – Catalina Jordan, Berlin, 2009 (5′43″)
Family – Nosheen Khwaja, Glasgow, 2009 (7’)
Gender Poo – Riot Coco, 2005 – 2009, Montreal (1′35″)
Der Park – Regina Assmann, Berlin 1994 (2′30″)
Project website (a work in progress) http://europesupportsartists.wordpress.com
A photomachine in a learning process…
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NOT FADE AWAY
AN INVITATION FROM FEEL TANK CHICAGO TO: NOT FADE AWAY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th 2009
6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
@ bildwechsel’s ‘Experiments in Living’, at The Albany, corner of Ashley St and Carnarvon St (please use Carnarvon St entrance), Glasgow (more…)
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Experiments in Living flyer
please print it out, put it up, send it on: flyer
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Monday 21st September: update on film programme
We have a new addition to the programme for the 21st:
The Fridge Under The Kitchen Wagon – Der Schwarze Kanal, 50’, Line Kühl, Bettina Mooshammer, Sophie Grohmann, Berlin 2008, German with English Subtitles
Documentary about life on the wagonplace Schwarzer Kanal in Berlin Mitte. The queer space is under constant threat of eviction by the city hall, landlord and neighbours.
6pm – Eat What You Find For Free Cafe
7pm – film programme, starting wih Under The Kitchen Wagon and followed by a programme of queer collective-made short films. PLUS the premiere of the new Burnout film Cock and the City!
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Sh[OUT] Against Censorship
Facebook page now online at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=273463125334
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Statement from Bildwechsel Glasgow on the censorship of work at Glasgow’s Museum of Modern Art
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Experiments in Living: Monday 21st September
this evening is planned to coincide with the Glasgow Festival of DIY Culture and we’ll be showing some queer collective made films and hopefully a film about queer squatting too (check back for more info).
We start at 6pm with our “eat what you can find for free” cafe
Films start at 7pm
More info here
Monday 21st September: eat what you can find for free cafe and a programme of short films as part of Glasgow Festival of DIY Culture
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