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Blood_Data

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Object/Object
Maker
Levy, Johanna > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .The object/ image is part of a series of visual collages with the aim to investigate the connections between blood and data flows. It aims to show the materiality of the bodies, machines and flows at work and thus to denude/ uncover/ expose hidden processes.. .Through visibilization, the collage aims to demystify digital technologies and menstrual blood flows. It tries to provide spectators with access to often hidden processes and (cognitive, emotional and physical) spaces.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Blood_Data

Ovo s'ode

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Object/Object
Maker
Trilló Tommaso > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .'Uovo s'ode' is made of the inside shell of a Kinder egg (the plastic one containing the surprise) filled with corn seeds in order for it to make noise when shaken. The shell bears the name of a woman victim of femicide in Italy during 2016 and the date of her death.. .'Uovo s'ode' is the name of an ingenious campaign promoted by a Roman social centre in occasion of the 'Non una di meno' rally to protest against male perpetrated violence on women held in Rome on November 26th, 2016. The campaign exploits the word play created by the similar sound of 'uovo s'ode' [an egg you can hear] and 'uova sode' [boiled eggs]. The object (the innder shell of a kinder egg filled with corn seeds) was used to make noise and accompany chants at the 'Non una di meno' rally in Rome on November 26th.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Ovo s'ode

Poetry Slam Madrid

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Object/Object
Maker
Pinzari, Raluca > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .The object is a publicity poster for the Poetry Slam Madrid held on the first Wednesday of the month on Augusto Figueroa Street, 3, Intruso Bar. The poster states the rules of the poetry performance competition: 12 poets on stage, each one has three minutes to perform their original poem, the public decides the winner (5 randomly chosen persons from the audience have the role of judges).. . .This poster generally describes the rules of the competition. Even though the structure is symbolically hegemonic, poetry slam ironically subverts this notion: competition in slams is synonymous with collaboration. Held in an open space designed for leisure, poetry performances embrace the participation of anyone willing to express their thoughts and experiences on stage: it created a new generation of poets .and audience members, particularly among those demographics traditionally underrepresented in poetry: youth, women, queer, ethnically diverse poets. Poetry slams create spaces for all categories of people and it brings poetry back to the people.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Poetry Slam Madrid

Within

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Object/Object
Maker
Atoui, Tarek > kunstenaar
Maker
Hettinga, Lieke > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .'WITHIN / Infinite Ear' is a collaboration between artists and researchers but also local communities, and consists of an exhibition with images and objects, but also performances and a film programme, all investigating the experience of deafness, sound, and hearing. I'll just copy paste something here: .'To what extent do we hear? What can hearing and deaf people learn from each other’s abilities? In what ways can such knowledge improve political representation of the diversity of hearing? How can it influence the way we understand sound performance, its space and instrumentation?. .Since 2013, Tarek Atoui and Council have worked with Deaf and differently-hearing persons to create spaces to explore, understand and represent the diversity of the hearing experience. Combining the scientific history of hearing with the history of sonic arts and Deaf culture, these sites seek to renew the ways we relate to sound perception. .This research has led to WITHIN / Infinite Ear, an exhibition consisting of a number of collections (of instruments, recordings, books, films and artworks) that will grow and shift as the project progresses.'. .What I love about this project is that it brings people together in a space and allows them to interact with things, or experiences things, knowing that they are all .experience it differently. Deaf people and non-deaf people will hear the performance concert together but different, or the exercises will have different experiences for .them. I think examining sound as a material experience has a lot of potential for our interest in equality otherwise and embodied discomfort.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Within

Urban Graffity

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Object/Object
Maker
Trilló Tommaso > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .This graffiti appeared in Rome, Italy, following the murder of 22yo Sara Di Pietrantonio by her ex-boyfriend on May 29th, 2016. Over the past few years, Italy has consistently witnessed the murder of young women on behalf of former lovers allegedly unable to overcome a breakup. A series of inquiries and growing media attention to the issue lead the Italian parliament to pass in 2013 a law that mandates more severe penalties for those who murder their spouses, cohabiting partners, or otherwise sentimentally engaged partners. Although gender neutral in its wording, the law and the associated crime has entered common language as 'femminicidio', and is defined by the highest authority .on the italian language (Accademia della Crusca) as any form of systemic violence exerted against women in the name of a patriarchal ideological over-structure that aims at perpetuating the subordination of women and the annihilation of their identity through physical or psychological subjugation. The term 'femminicidio' is hard to convey in other languages. It literally means 'the murder of a female', but this translation does not capture the more profound meaning conveyed in the definition. Despite public attention and specific legislation to target 'femminicidio', the murder of women on behalf of former sentimental partners remains a pressing public issue in Italy to this day. The femminicidio of Sara in Rome triggered a major public uproar. A relatively large march was organized in the area surrounding the site of the murder, where the graffiti in object appeared. The protest also migrated to social media, where it eventually consolidated in the hashtag-slogan '#saranonsarà' ('roughly translating into 'what happened to sara won't happen again'). The graffiti spells 'the femminicida [a person who commits femminicidio] is not [mentally] ill: he is a healthy son of patriarchy'. The explicit message in the graffiti aims at challenging those narratives that use mental illness or abnormal sociality to downplay or even justify femminicidio.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Urban Graffity

Paper Ship

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Object/Object
Maker
Birey, Tegiye > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .This paper ship comes from the interactive theatre performance 'Dreamlands' of Malmö Communityteater ????? ????? ????? that took place in Malmö on 14th of July. Malmö Communityteater ????? ????? ????? is a theatre group made up of people whose identities are made to fall in so-called categories of citizen, refugee, migrant. The ones who took the stage had used their own experiences to come up with a dreamlike script, which invited the voluntary participation of the audience. I was part of the audience. Before the .performance started (now I think about it, maybe the performance had already started with this), the audience was asked to fill out a form about dreams. Dreams we had as children, dreams we realized, dreams that went wrong, right and to other directions. During the performance, the audience was asked to fold this paper in a specific way with clear directions. We all ended up with a paper ship made out of our dreams. Contrary to the popular belief, it seemed, dreams are not left behind when people risk their lives to .save their lives. They are rearranged in the shape of a ship to prolong living, they are the motor of the ship, they are the life vest and they are the driving force of it all. The ones on the stage moved around in white dresses, slowly danced through the scenes, as the audience was given yet another opportunity to process the visual-event of the refugee taking the ship, once again, but with the new suggestion to see the dream that happened before the ship happened.. .Then there was the question and answer session. The atmosphere was heavy with silence. There were some questions eventually, but you know how memories are. Selective. I remember one person within the audience asking: 'what did the white dress that you were wearing mean?'. The ones on the stage responded by saying that it is open to interpretation, and they chose not to give a definitive answer but rather asked her opinion about the meaning of the white dress. She responded by saying that she didn't .know, but some of them looked uncomfortable wearing a dress. Silence. I wondered, and still wonder, what this question means, and what it does. Feeling the need to make a connection between non-Western (assumed) men wearing a white dress and discomfort. I wonder if it was her own frustration to see them wearing a dress, which does not fit into her accumulated knowledge of what non-Western men can do and be. I wonder if it was the discomfort of her own gaze to see non-Western men in dresses. I wonder if she .indeed felt a discomfort, and fished the dress out as the reason. I wonder even if she was sure of a discomfort caused by wearing the dress, what she thought this question would do. These questions about the question are open-ended but, practically, the question ended the show. For me, this little paper ship is a reminder of this instance. The ways in which the questions we ask about gender are shaped by preconceptions, and can easily be comments in disguise with an excess of a question mark instead of opening further opportunities to share. When asked after being offered a piece of someone's dream, they can do more damage than good, to the extent that they end the show.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Paper Ship

I Don't See Well

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Object/Object
Maker
Calderón, Orianna > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by artist: .I wrote this text last year, after the gender analysis task carried out within Suzanne's workshop. When thinking about an object related with the idea of 'embodied discomfort', it came back to me because my starting point was the fact that I can't see well without glasses. Besides, many times in my life I have felt uncomfortable in connection with seeing, not so much because of my lack of a perfect sight, but due to the violence of the objectifying gaze. In my text, I combine this 'not being able to see well' with personal experiences traversed by gender mandates and theoretical reflections on feminist theory and the gaze. To approach equality differently, we need to think and see differently: maybe we have to look at the world through a pair of purple glasses.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

I Don't See Well

Cervical Collar

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Object/Object
Maker
Cengiz, Zerrin > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by author: .To me personally, this object is the symbolic manifestation of different health care systems that I am part of in different countries at the moment, the Netherlands as a resident and Turkey as a citizen. .The lack of (medical) care, human-centered approach, knowledge and understanding in the Dutch health care system has astonished me ever since I moved to the Netherlands and every time I need to go to the doctor. However, what was even more surprising to me was to see a complete opposite manner in Turkey when I had a car accident in Istanbul. The entire procedure was so thorough that even though I had was taken to the hospital in a very uncomfortable way and I had to wear this disturbing collar for a while (so I was in a constant state of discomfort), I had a feeling of trust and comfort all the time.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Cervical Collar

Cigarette

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Object/Object
Maker
Cengiz, Zerrin > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .I believe that it has a significance related to my understanding/critique of the concept of equality within the context of Turkey where it had long been considered inappropriate for women to smoke in the presence of their elder family members, especially their fathers. Furthermore, women smoking freely had been associated with sexual availability. On the other hand, smoking as an act has a class component. For women of higher socio-economic status smoking had been a sign of modernity, freedom and 'Western' values.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Cigarette

Poetry Slam Scene;interieur

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Object/Object
Maker
Pinzari, Raluca > fotograaf
Samenvatting
Photograph of an empty Poetry Slam stage. .The presence of the microphone itself is a form of embodied discomfort because it makes a speech act public to an audience. Most people experience discomfort up on a stage.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Poetry Slam Scene;interieur

Our Future Starts Now

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Object/Object
Maker
Trilló Tommaso > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by author: .The object is an A3 format poster developed by te European Women's Lobby for the purpose of dissemination after approving a list of strategic priorities for the time span 2016­2020. The poster has a mild yellow background and on one side spells the slogan 'Our Future Starts Now' while on the other sides it has a short list of the five key priorities, each one paired with a small symbol. these are, namely, (1) Ensure Institutional mechanisms for women's human rights, (2) end violence against women, (3) promote a feminist economic model based on equality, well­being,care, and social justice, (4) challenge and change the culture of sexism and stereotypes, and (5) position women at the heath of decisionmaking.. .The European Women's lobby is arguably one of the most powerful pro­equality lobby organizations at the European level. the have been advocating for women's rights and gender equality with a focus on Europe since 1987, and in their strategic objectives the ones referring to 'the culture of sexism and stereotypes' and the one referring to 'a feminist economic model' specifically aim at constructing a culture of equality, together with the other objectives, too, of course.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Our Future Starts Now

The Matryoshkas (Emerging) Hidden Figures

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Object/Object
Maker
Drage, Eleanor > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

The Matryoshkas (Emerging) Hidden Figures

Boxing Gloves / Pink Wraps

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Object/Object
Maker
Benitez, Alejandra > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .The ethnographic context of my research project on sport and gender equality is a boxing academy in a city in Yorkshire, UK. Founded in the 1940s, the place is a non­profit voluntary amateur boxing club that includes in its activities sex integrated sessions. Furthermore, it has been a platform for women and men at the competitive level. .In order to collect primary data, I have conducted self­immersion in subcultural setting as a regular participant to the boxing place. By doing this I seek to establish “an experimental and appreciative relationship with the people” about whom I will write about (McCaughey, 1998:279). In accordance to this, Molnar points out that: “For the sake of understanding the field and rich data collection, an ethnographer often has to make some tough, potentially life­altering choices to be able to carry out participant observation. In doing so, the researcher may have to put his/her body on the line to become an instrument of data collection.” (Molnar, 2015:3). .The objects that I am submitting in this round are contextualized in my first visit to the boxing gym. My intention with them is to represent on one side my embodiment of the field and on the other the existence of gender stereotypes not only in sportive contexts but also in our minds.. .Boxing is an urban phenomenon where violent physical contact is a key element. Historically it has been practiced by men of working classes even though nowadays women are participating in it and gender relations and identities have being challenged. Women, however, are still underrepresented and discriminated whilst men remain as role models and overall sport still produces orthodox masculinities and celebrates sex essentialist discourses. Furthermore, gender stereotypes remain. For these reasons boxing is a great field for analyzing gender in the frame of the research project “Sport as a site for the production of cultures of equality” which is part of the GRACE Work Package “Urban cultures of gender equality”.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Boxing Gloves / Pink Wraps

Sisterhood

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Object/Object
Maker
Enderstein, Athena-Maria > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .It is a necklace with Audre Lorde's portrait. It was given to me by my feminist sisters. To me it symbolizes the potential of sisterhood and the strength of voice, key aspects of the project of equality building.. .This quote is from a speech at the Lesbian and Literature panel of the Modern Language Association’s December 28, 1977 meeting. It has since been published in many of Lorde's books including “The Cancer Journals” and “Sister Outsider.”. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Sisterhood

Youth and slam poetry in Oviedo

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Object/Object
Maker
Pinzari, Raluca > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .Since my project targets youth and their relationship with street culture through humour and laughter from a gender perspective, this picture mirrors young women's reaction to slam poetry. As one can notice, the number of young women surpasses men's number. In slam poetry the audience is crucial in how the discourse is perceived. From a feminist perspective, these young women use their voice and laughter to react to a certain type of discourse and intervene and have the power to influence the person on stage. At the same time, this picture portays young women in a public space and have their presence felt and their voices heard.. .This picture features a mixed group of young people enjoying a performance act in a public urban space. The presence of young women in a larger number raises the question of who is present at this kind of cultural event. In slam poetry the audience has a special characteristic. Some people in the audience are randomly given the role of judges thus letting the poet know when a poem does/does not connect with them. In this context, laughter is a reaction of acceptance and engagement.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Youth and slam poetry in Oviedo

The Paradoxical Knitting Activism (Pussy Hat)

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Object/Object
Maker
kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by artist: .Women were told to use the needle instead of the pen. The needle was conceived as the symbol of women domestication, of immobility, the “female pen.” This instrument was the antithesis of the phallic pen. Even Mary Wollstonecraft was against women use of the needle. In her text The Vindication of the Rights of Women with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) she wrote: “I have already inveighed against the custom of confining girls to their needle, and shutting them out from all political and civil employments”. Like Wollstonecraft, many women attempt to detached themselves from the image of the “proper” lady with no intellectual capacity to use the pen. But women's literary and feminist activism history complicates, even more, the simple binary of “the pen or needle” or the idea of considering needle incongruent with political and civil matters. While some women rejected the needlework as a confining labor, other, specifically women writers showed the similarities between the needlework and writing, a strategy to exemplify how the art of writing could be part of the “female” domain (Hedges, 1991). This allegory between knitting and writing, the metaphor of textual work as textile work, gave them the perfect excuse to write as they knit.. .Nowadays, an interesting example of the use of knitting for feminist purposes is the Pussy Hat Project. The original idea of the project was to make a visual statement of women’s discomfort during the first day after Trump government's inauguration. Today the use of the pussy hat has become global. The internet is full of images of people wearing the hats in protest and marches all over the world. As Joan Scott (1996) states “Feminist agency is paradoxical in its expression.” What can be considered a confining instrument for women, could easily become the symbol of feminist resistance.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

The Paradoxical Knitting Activism (Pussy Hat)

Puerto Rican Feminist Mural

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Object/Object
Maker
kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: .The image depicts the respond of Puerto Rican feminists to the vandalism of a mural painted by the Colectivo Morivivi, a group of young feminist Puerto Rican street artists. The original image was a naked Afro Puerto Rican woman painted by the group in collaboration with Paz Para la Mujer (Peace for Women) a non governmental women’s rights organization. The image presents a woman hiding her eyes behind her arms, with butterflies covering all her body. The idea of the mural was to spread a message to end .violence against women, but someone decided to put some white undergarment to the painting. In a city full of images of women sexually objectified, the depiction of a naked woman raising awareness against violence, was too transgressive for some passers.In an interview to a local newspaper, one of the artist narrated that during the process of painting the mural, one person screamed at them: ““¡Pónganle un brassiere a esa muchacha!”. ('Put a bra to that girl!').. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Puerto Rican Feminist Mural

A Conversation with Mamela Nyamza and Mojisola Adebayo
film

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Object/Object
Maker
Fingleton, Lisa > filmmaker
Maker
Nyamza, Mamela > kunstenaar
Maker
Adebayo, Mojisola > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Filmmaker Lisa Fingleton talks in this YouTube video to Mamela Nyamza and Mojisola Adebayo, the co-creators of 'I Stand Corrected' about scenes from their performance at Ovalhouse Theatre in London in 2012. The performance itself is a critical engagement with the South African rape cricis.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

A Conversation with Mamela Nyamza and Mojisola Adebayofilm

Handmaids in Milan

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Object/Object
Maker
Non Una Di Meno - Milano > fotograaf
Samenvatting
The image shows a performance made by a group of women from the feminist collective Non Una di Meno in May 2018. They dressed as handmaids in front of the imposing Duomo of the metropolitan city of Milan. By this act, the group tries to replicate Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tales (1985), in which several 'fertile' women under a religious and political dictatorship are utilised as reproductive machines to avoid the extinction of the population. The performance also aimed to celebrate the forty years of the approval of the law providing the right abortion in Italy and invited to reflect on the possibility of a bleak future in matters of sexual and reproductive rights for women.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

Handmaids in Milan

PH Gender Scale

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Object/Object
Maker
Benitez, Alejandra > kunstenaar
Samenvatting
Description provided by the artist: 'The pH Gender Scale measures how gendered a social structure or a cultural production is. The more it tends to the acid, the more gendered the sample is. Taking as sample the Ideological State Apparatuses and the Repressive State Apparatus suggested by Althusser, the French Marxist philosopher, as well as his .essay 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)', .(1970), the pH Gender Scale depicts how highly gendered they are. Through this illustration, it is communicated the fallacy of the gender neutrality of the .social reality.'. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/

PH Gender Scale