news / announcements
City of Women Goes Web!
October 6th-15th, 2005 As part of the City of Women Festival goes Web, CoWeb has developed a team to produce live documentation in the form of texts, audio and images that will be available online in the coming days. Different categories of material allow for a broad range of reflection from the editorial team. City of Women in collaboration with Faces mailing list.
Coweb offers:
an excerpt of the opening paper of the panel 'Life, Community and (Conditions of ) Work' by Marina Gržinić. The recording of the first session is now available in English in OGG and MP3
& many more interesting theoretical writings about the notion of in/security from a broad interdisciplinary perspective!
You can listen to the interviews with almost all of the festival guests (the ones not included follow!). E.g. listen to the interview with a visual artist Maja Bajević (Sarajevo/Paris) in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian in OGG and MP3.
Read reports and critiques of the festival events in Slovene, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, English and German as about he Tricky Women Festival at the City of Women by Olivera Erić.
Translations
The latest issues of the periodical Apokalipsa (94-95) bring together texts by Christen Clifford (USA), Marijs Boulogne (Belgium) and Ivana Sajko (Croatia), three artists who are participating in this year's City of Women festival. These works have been translated by Tone Škrjanc and Tanja Lesničar-Pučko. (Price 2000 SIT; 1500 SIT on sales areas at the City of Women festival, and in particular Kinodvor).
The 11th City of Women Said Goodbye
... in the rhythm of the sounds by the DJ-legend ELECTRIC INDIGO!
Accompanied by two Slovene DJs Miss House Wife and DJ Trick-C she made the public, festival guests and team dance goodbye the 11th City of Women festival and greet the Festival 2006!
Photo Nada Žgank
Photo Nada Žgank
The City of Women festival 2005 took place between the 7th and the 14th of October in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Thematically, it focused on the concept of in/security as one of the key issues in contemporary debate. Today, security of any kind is a mere illusion; while new measures of exclusion, control and violence have all been imposed in the name of 'security' in order that they may be perceived as acceptable. Often, the woman's body is a crucial locus where discourses on national identity, multicultural society and acceptable family norms are played out, sometimes in the name of equality and emancipation, and other times in the name of difference. The obsession with security and fear, surveillance and control, has also become a common issue in many spheres of cultural and artistic endeavour. The Festival presented women artists, theoreticians and activists who focus on various physical, psychological, environmental, ideological, economic and political issues that pertain to in/security. How do we deal with reality in times of civil war, terrorism, epidemic, political and economic imbalance as well as overall anxiety?
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
2005 City of Women festival is dedicated to Susan Sontag
Nermina Kurspahić: IN MEMORIAM "I have every right to be personal, because I loved her as much as she loved me, with a friend's love that a lot of people nowadays haven't got the clue about, but she knew everything. I'm in terrible pain and it hurts so much having to face the fact that Susan is really gone. I lost my dear friend, David lost his mother, and the whole world lost Susan Sontag. She's gone for good, together with the century that she signed; the lady of the Great Spirit, mind and heart."(Nermina Kurspahić)
