Videos and Performances: Ann Antidote
There are vulvas around you if you choose to see. - Video, Podium Lecture Theatre, 16th October A queer art collective – The Strange Life of the Savages - has been installing rope bondage sculptures shaped as vulvae in urban environments, as a way to confront by-passers with representations of femininity, body, and sexuality. The places are chosen out of aesthetic reasons or because of a specially high patriarchal, sexist or capitalist content. In this film we depict some of the installed vulvae as well as the process; the voice over (by Sadie Lune et al.) explains the troubles and tribulations of people with vulvae, makes the bridge between the urban installation and current queer topics, and underlines the necessity and meaning of solidarity networks (and defending the safe-space(s) which diverse communities have been creating).
Anna Raimondo
Encouragements - Video, Podium Lecture Theatre, 16th October Video of an intervention in urban space by Anna Raimondo, Brussels, 2014. After having collected the encouragements of women of several ages, origins, and sexual and religious backgrounds, the artist walks through Brussels’ urban spaces and uses these texts simulating a conversation on her cell phone.
Emma Lilwall
///ratatat/glitch/internal/// - Durational performance, 17th October. Final performance 16.00, 17th October. A household table stages the juxtaposition of the domestic, beside the electronic tools used for sound creation. A sewing machine,fabric, sewing needles, glue, a turntable, a sampler, speakers of various sizes and a Mac are layed out in front of the artist. Throughout the day, the artist will work with a sewing machine, creating an outer garment to wear 30