Born and raised in France, Julie Pernet « Julio » now lives in Brussels where she works in human rights advocacy. She has been drawing and painting since early childhood and has developed an immoderate love for women’s faces, figures as well as for all kinds of red. She has been using various techniques, from charcoal, pastels and acrylics to digital illustrations/drawings on photographs. Besides this work, she has been an active volunteer in the promotion of LGBTI rights in Belgium, taking part in a program fighting LGBTI-phobia in schools and as Board member of the RainbowHouse Brussels.
Their bodies is an exhibition of women’s bodies and faces and is a pansexual’s journey in the world of women (cisgender and transgender): “I identified myself as an heterosexual person for a long time until I unexpectedly fell in love with a girl. Through this first lesbian experience, I learnt how to love and be attracted by female’s bodies and have never stopped since, while also being attracted by male ones. Drawing women’s bodies at first helped me grasp my new reality and later became a way to highlight women’s beauty, queerness and strength. Their bodies is a tribute to those women I have loved and admired, those who have shaped my identity and my sexual orientation first as a bisexual and later as a pansexual person.”
Visual artist living in Madrid. Graduated in Business Management (UAM). Her photographic training has been developed in Blankpaper (2010) and EFTI (Professional Course, 2011 and Master of Contemporary Photography and Personal Projects, 2015/16).
Her work Ignored Island has been published in EXC! (2016). She has self-published the book Woundedland (2016) and the newspaper Ignored Island (2017). She has participated in collective exhibitions, such as Pa-ta-ta Festival, Granada (2017), “Hacia Donde Mirar”, Madrid (2016/17) and “Fotoproyectos 13”, Unonueve Gallery, Madrid (2016).
“Strange and far away islands”
The image may be an archaeological enigma of difficult interpretation. The pass of time or vested interests can alter its meaning. In the same way, a simple photograph can legitimize obviated realities and with that modify the course of History. The images have the ability to uncover the truth, and sometimes they do it with obstinacy, reappearing a hundred years later under the ice or in an album forgotten in box. Contemporary photography must be aware of its power, but also of the fragility and expiration of its message, as vulnerable as that left by shipwrecks in a bottle”.
Visual artist living in Madrid. Graduated in Business Management (UAM). Her photographic training has been developed in Blankpaper (2010) and EFTI (Professional Course, 2011 and Master of Contemporary Photography and Personal Projects, 2015/16).
Her work Ignored Island has been published in EXC! (2016). She has self-published the book Woundedland (2016) and the newspaper Ignored Island (2017). She has participated in collective exhibitions, such as Pa-ta-ta Festival, Granada (2017), “Hacia Donde Mirar”, Madrid (2016/17) and “Fotoproyectos 13”, Unonueve Gallery, Madrid (2016).
“Strange and far away islands”
The image may be an archaeological enigma of difficult interpretation. The pass of time or vested interests can alter its meaning. In the same way, a simple photograph can legitimize obviated realities and with that modify the course of History. The images have the ability to uncover the truth, and sometimes they do it with obstinacy, reappearing a hundred years later under the ice or in an album forgotten in box. Contemporary photography must be aware of its power, but also of the fragility and expiration of its message, as vulnerable as that left by shipwrecks in a bottle”.
Feminist Artist: Photography, Objects, Menstrual Art, Film, Performance, Trash Art http://www.petrapaul.beep.de
Exhibitions and praticipation, performance, filmscreenings (Vienna, Boston, Halifax, Givatayim, Tel Aviv, London,…)
Installation of object from the performance Transformation with Ophira Avisar in the Gallery NUU in Vienna, after we already made this performance in Givatayim (Israel). It is about the question of space. It is my white room and Avisar has to do a painting job there. She is painting signs, like the women sign, vagina signs… As I could not go out of the space, she had to paint me red. Installation of a picture 4,10 x 1,5 meter, film Transformation 20 mins., red painted clothes
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Anouchka Oler
(b. 1988 in France, lives and works in Brussels)
In her practice writing, sculpture, performance and video come together in narratives of the encounter between people and a disruptive material setting in which objects express feelings, ill-humour and dissatisfaction with their functional roles. Thus we find both objects and individuals refusing to cooperate with each other, a situation that leads other characters to consider the consequences of this rejection of tacit collaboration. Actors then engage with impetuosity in inquiring how, what and of whom are they made of.
WHERE ARE THE LESBIANS ? On CSD !
Show with photographies, videos and films of CSD from 1984 until today, 2h
by Christa Biedermann 2017
Photographies, videos and filmtakes from lesbians on CSDs, topic „visuability“ from point of view of an visual artist – photography – film – video – performance – painting – installation. Short remembering of the topic „Wo- men/Lesbians in the public“, some words to the story of photgraphy and film.
Developping of this project
„Where are the women“, I have been asked by a lesbian after the screening of one of my first Super – 8 – films of a CSD – demonstration at the end of the eighties in Berlin. She was astonished, why there are only so few lesbians in the FILM ?
Since 1984 I am participating with diverse cameras – analogue camera, Super – 8, 16mm, Hi-8, Mini-DV and i-phone CSD – demons- trations, most of them in Berlin and Vienna; 1999 videos on „Kanalparade Amsterdam“ and CSD in Munich too. Selfies with the filmmaker in the middle !
1984 first photographies, BW, analogue one of the first CSDs in Vienna. The demonstration beginning at the opera passing through Kärntnerstraße, some people watching at the roadside, about 150 participants with banners, amoung them some sisters and policemen.
Demands:
– LESBENRECHT AUF ÖFFENTLICHKEIT WEG MIT ‚WERBE‘ & VEREINSVERBOT §220 §221
– Lesbian right on public, stop of prohibition of clubs and publicity
– SEXUELLE VIELFALT STATT EINFALT UND GEWALT -Sexual variety instead of stupidity and violence Wer die Gewalt liebt kann nicht lieben Wer nicht lieben kann lebt nicht
Who loves violence cannot love, who are not able to love ist not living
– WAS LANGE GÄHRT, WIRD ENDLICH WUT – long fermenting becomes rage
– MÄNNER SOLLEN MÄNNER KÜSSEN ANSTATT MÄNNER TÖTEN MÜSSEN
Men shall kiss men instaed of killing men
Short Bio:
Izzy Kroese and Erin Blamire are multidisciplinary artists from the North of England, specialising in editorial projects and publications. They have worked together on numerous occasions exploring a range of topics, often focusing on identity – be it sexuality, gender, or regional identities. They are also co-founders of Shy Bairns, a collective that works to support northern artists.
Workshop content abstract:
Gathering found images, we present an exploration of lesbian* identity, gender and history in a publication free for visitors to the EL*C. Juxtaposing images of lesbian erotica, both lesbian directed and directed for the male gaze; photographs of moments in lesbian history, publishing and image-making; and images that are ‘subtext’ lesbian*, we link different lesbian* moments to show the diversity of the lesbian* experience.
B – Project
In b-project Maja Radosavljevic, a former studio photographer from Vienna, puts bodies in the centre of her work. By illustrating breasts in different shapes and from different perspectives, Maja points at the ‘most important female* body-parts‘ from a queer feminist stance. Studio and fashion photography, as does society, describes and defines women* by showing their bodies in perfect, acceptable shapes. It creates a ‘photoshop fantasy’, an image almost nobody can achieve. Thus, b-project is not just a call out for (self-)acceptance and for a variety of what is called gender and what is understood as female* body. It is also a queer critique towards photography and our society.
∞ gender, female bodies are seen as constructed
BIO:
Photographer and Visual Artist living in Vienna. 2006 – 2014 she worked as a studio photographer. Beyond Intimicy was her first exhibition in Vienna. Since then Maja added Videography to her artistic expression. She did her Bachelor in Theater-, Movie and Media Studies and Gender Studies this year. She also attended courses at the University of Applied Arts. Since 2014 Maja organizes the International Queer Minorities Film Festival TRANSITION in Vienna. Her work was always shaped by the Criticism of society from a queer feminist point of view.
Exhibition and introduction
“Gedenkkugel” – Lesbian commemorative orb
Herstory and background for an memorial for the lesbian women persecuted and murdered during Nazi-fascism in the concentration camp Ravensbrück
Since the 80ies there have been several initiatives from lesbian groups and -organisations as well as from feminist historians, feminist archives and activists to create a place where to commemorate the lesbian women who have been persecuted and murdered in the women’s concentration camp of Ravensbrück. In three consecutive years we – a group of feminist women and lesbians from Germany and Austria, have organised debates and meeting on “Persecution of lesbian women in Nazism – Information, exchange and remembrance” at the Memorial Ravensbrück.
2015, at the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück, we laid a memorial stone for the lesbians persecuted and murdered in Ravensbrück.
2016 we have decided that we will apply officially for the commemorative orb to remain. We applied for a memorial plaque that is a sign of remembrance, with the inscription as follows:
In memory for all lesbian women and girls in the women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück and Uckermark.
Lesbian women were considered “abnormal” and were persecuted and murdered for being “antisocial”, rebellious, crazy and for other reasons.
You are not forgotten!
At the 19th of May 2016 the International Ravensbrück Committee (IRK) has decided at the annual meeting in Vienna, to support our demand for the installation of the commemorative orb.
We also called international for support of the initiative (in German, English, France and Italian). 519 people and organisations in 27 countries have signed our petition!
The International Advisory Council of the foundation for Memorial Sites in Brandenburg, Germany deferred a decision. They wrote in an official mail: “There were very controversial discussions both in the meeting of the International Advisory Council on 14th November 2016 and the Committee of Experts on 6th December 2016.”
We got the information that the former speaker for the LSVD (Lesbian and Gay Association Germany)-Brandenburg and representative of the homosexual victim group in the International Advisory Council, Alexander Zinn, vehemently opposed our application.
He had previously written an open letter in March 2010, during an argument about the Homo-Monument in Berlin, to prevent lesbian women in Nazi-fascism being commemorated.
In his comment to the International Advisory Council (2016) he wrote that “the NS powers also rejected female homosexuality” but that these were not persecuted because §175 did not apply to lesbian women. He characterised the desire for a visible symbol of commemoration on lesbian women, as the creation of a “Legend of Lesbian persecution” that is based on “questionable individual cases”, is dubious “and” historical misrepresentation and a completely unacceptable misuse of history for current political interests.
The initiative “autonomous feminist lesbian women from Germany and Austria” have “demonstrated by their actions” that they are not prepared to accept the decisions of the advisory council … and have “at the Commemoration on the 70th anniversary of the liberation in April 2015” simply laid a “random memorial”. The official application is, on the other hand, an affront to the advisory council.
We were very disappointed about this decision, and also furious and appalled at the insulting tone of communication and the ignorance and denial of the persecution of lesbian women.
On 20th/21st April 2017 within the context of the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the women’s concentration camp a symposium “Identity politics and commemoration
Lesbian-Gay cultures of commemoration in discussion” was organised by Sites of Memorial and Remembrance Ravensbrück/Foundation for Memorial Sites in Brandenburg, with lectures, discussions and podium discussion.
We were invited to make a presentation of the initiative “A Lesbian commemorative plaque for Ravensbrück”. For this Presentation we configured the exhibition “Lesbian commemorative orb”. (This exhibition was shown in the memorial Ravensbrück till the end of June 2017.)
At the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the women’s concentration camp 2017 we organized again a memorial ceremony for the persecuted and murdered lesbian women and girl at the place where we put the Lesbian Commemorative Orb 2015. Around 65 persons took part.
We will go on to campaign for a positive decision on our application. Our continued collective commitment is necessary to establish a permanent commemorative plaque for the persecuted and murdered lesbians in the former women’s concentration camp Ravensbrück.
It is still possible to sign officially the initiative for the Lesbian Commemorative Orb. The next decision of the International Advisory Council will be in November 2017.
Therefore we would like to show the exhibition also at the International Lesbian* Meeting in Vienna 5th – 8th of October 2017. And want to give once during the days an hour introduction to the exhibition and the space and possibilities for questions, information and support.
The exhibition
+ gives information about the persecution of lesbians during Nazi-fascism,
+ make bibliographies of women, who were persecuted as lesbians,
+ shows initiatives and analyses of feminists and lesbians about persecution of lesbians,
+ shows the artistic and handcrafted creation of the Lesbian commemorative orb
+ and make visible the international support for the initiative with an installation of the 517 supporters.
Most parts are in English and German, few parts in German only, and few parts in Italian and French too.
We hope it`s possible to show the exhibition at the International Lesbian* Meeting.
With feminist lesbian greetings
For the initiative Autonomous Feminist Lesbian Women from Germany and Austria
Lisa Steininger
zora.roth@gmx.at
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