bildwechsel glasgow

Permanent Conference of Artistic Resources

17th – 25th September, Glasgow – Permanent Conference of Artistic Resources (aka Europe Supports Artists)

This will be the fourth meeting of the Permanent Conference (Hamburg in 2007, Warsaw beginning of 2008, Basel October 2008) and this year our theme is Experiments In Living – (Artist) Communities.

Please visit the website and send us your examples of ‘experiments in living’: ideas, drawings, research, films, photos, links…….for the site and for the project (we’ve just started on this bit of the site and we need your help to get more info on there… and to inform the project in September) - we are interested in realities, histories, utopias and imaginings, in communities and groups, homes and buildings, networks and connections… feel free to add to the list of categories on the page.

Read on for more info about what we’ve planned so far – and get in touch if you fancy being involved and/or have some suggestions for the week….

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1 comment July 3, 2009

LaD.I.Y.fest Berlin (16.-19.07.09) is … CALLING FOR FILMS!

(The Open Call for films on ‘experiments in living’ (see below) will also be show in Glasgow in the CCA in September as part of a week long series of events for the Bildwechsel project Permanent Conference of Artistic Resources… more info about the week soon)

This year LaD.I.Y.fest Berlin formed two topic groups that each concentrate on specific subjects.
Inside of this years call for films we are focusing on those two topics, but we are keeping the call open for other subjects!

Topic 1:
‘Everyday Sexism’.
We are trying to look into where sexism occurs in our everyday lives and how to deal with it. A focus will be on how to speak up against sexism and to develop counter strategies. Specifically, we want to deal with heterosexism/heteronormativity, sexism within relationships and family as well as for example in the leftwing movement. Apart from that sexism in language and the power/right of (self)definition could be further talking points.

Topic 2:
we want to offer a platform to reflect on structural discrimination and how norms, structures of power and racism are reproduced in different surroundings. Therefore we want to deal with discrimination by the state and mainstream society, as well as being self reflective and work on our own behavior and attitudes, re-question our figuration of inclusion/exclusion. We are thinking of topics like e.g. challenge the predominantly white western feminism which rarely engages the questions of migration and nationality, under a postcolonial perspective. We are interested in different perspectives and positions of voices, thinkings and practices of feminism.

Open Call: The theme of the open call is ‘experiments in living’.
LaD.I.Y.fest Berlin is colaborating with Bildwechsel (archive and project for women+ in media and culture) and we are interested any kinds of realities, histories, utopias and imaginings, in communities and groups, homes and buildings, networks and connections. A mixed and open screening is planned and we are looking forward for your videos of every genre! (short, long, roadmovies, docs, fiction, science fiction, porns, animations, storys, everydaylive-observations, the thinkable and the not-thinkable )

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DEADLINE for submitting films is 15th of june

please send your preview dvds or vhs, including your contact, short description an info about film and filmmaker to:

LaD.I.Y.fest c/o
Eva Kietzmann
Herrfurthstr.33
12049 Berlin
Germany

La.D.I.Y.fest Berlin/ FILM is collaborating with great Bildwechsel (umbrella organisation for women+/media/culture) and will forward every film to it archive. if you do NOT want us to forward your film to that archive, you have to remark that on your submission.
Information about Bildwechsel:
www.ilovebildwechsel.org /
www.bildwechselorg
www.bildwechselberlin.wordpress.com

for questions please contact:
film@ladyfest.net

Add comment June 2, 2009

planning (and cake with luck)

if you’d like to get involved with bw-glasgow… a making plans meeting on Sunday the 3rd May from 3pm… for future bw-glasgow events and screenings, and for the week long bw meeting that we are hosting in september (how do we survive as women artists? with the theme this year of ‘experiments in living’). email us at bildwechselglasgow@ yahoo.co.uk for details of where the meeting is.

Also – bw-glasgow facebook at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1369862050#/group.php?gid=7264699675

Europe Supports Artists at http://europesupportsartists.wordpress.com/

Add comment April 18, 2009

Tuesday night is movie night

join us this tuesday, 24th march, at the cca in glasgow for a classic feminist movie. you wont want to miss it! 7.30pm start. free / donation.

March 21, 2009

issue #4 of qunst

The fourth issue of of Bildwechsel’s e-zine ‘qunst. mag’ is ready to be downloaded at: www. qunst. net

Qunst.mag is created by members of Bildwechsel and the contributing artists. Our aim is to provide a platform for queer feminist artists working in various media.

Add comment March 17, 2009

news from Digital Desperados

Clear a last minute gap in your diary’s for The Digital Desperados Film Screening
1 hour : 5 Films
5th March 7:30pm at the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street
free/donations
tea and snacks for sale

At the end of a month’s intensive film making course for women of colour
emerge 5 fascinating and powerful films. All films either touch on or
critically explore racism and sexism. The course aimed to strip away the
mystique of professional inaccessibility that can surround filmmaking
and show that you can Do It Yourself! This is proved by the quality and
depth of films produced by these first time film makers.

Add comment March 2, 2009

Circus of desire – open call

circus-of-desire From Matthew Donnelly:

We are looking for artworks, performances, videos, music, texts that deal with desire.

We are interested in the exploration of our own desires in relation to gender roles and the fantasies of consumer culture.

Works that reveal, embarass, criticise. The exhibition is going to be shown at the Hillhead Street Project space, 1-2 34 Hillheadstreet, Glasgow on the 27th of March.

Please submit your work before the 8th of March to hillheadstreet@googlemail.com, see for more information hillheadstreet.blogspot.com

Artúr van Balen, Matthew Donnelly, Jakub Simcik

Add comment February 28, 2009