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- Atoui, Tarek > kunstenaar
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- Hettinga, Lieke > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, gelijke behandeling
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- 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/
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- Pinzari, Raluca > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, gender, poëzie, gelijke behandeling, seksisme
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- Description provided by the artist: .This poem opens the Introduction to 'She Grrrowls. The Anthology' edited by Carmina Masoliver. She is the founder of the feminist spoken word night 'She Grrrowls' in London, UK. The book reunites the poems that have been performed on the stage and it was published in 2017 by Burning Eye Press. .The poem addresses the traditional roles that have been assigned to young boys and girls.The text is intentionally in an editing format as if an unseen patriarchal hand is correcting the text to find the mistakes and discover any inaccuracies related to how young girls and boys should be brought up. Carmina Masoliver is highlighting through language how easy we assign roles and invites the reader to ponder upon the implications these roles have throughout the lifetime of young girls.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- feminism, feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, patriarchy, acties, actions, action groups, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism
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- Description provided by the artist: .The image is a poster of Silvia Albert Sopale’s play No Es Pais Para Negras, which was performed in the city of Oviedo last December. The performance was organized by CODOPA, a local NGO.. .'No es país para negras' is Silvia Albert Sopale's first solo performance and probably one of the first plays written and staged by a black woman in Spain. Born in San Sebastián from Nigerian and Ecuatorial Guinean parents, she has participated in other performances such as a version of 'La casa de Bernarda Alba', 'Memories', or 'Pallasas Power', where black female subjectivity has been put at the center. .Determined to open a space for black women artists in Spain and to make female authorship visible, she introduces her play as a 'legacy' and as her way to change the world, to raise awareness and encourage reflection. It is a work that is self-referential while giving voice to African descendants in Spain, a fight against covert racism and paternalistic views on Africa. 'No es país para negras' is, as she states, a play that 'speaks of a place that is inside one's own' as she reveals her personal journey of rejection, acceptance and fight for recognition throughout her performance.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- gelijke behandeling, nationalisme, gender, seksisme
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- Description provided by the artist: .The chosen object is my US citizen passport. Today, in a period of high economic crisis and after a terrible hurricane has devastated the island, the issue of Puertorican US citizenship and Puerto Rico political status have become a central topic of discussion globally. The fact that I do have US citizen passport, but I do not have the same rights of other US citizens, is an excellent example of how inequality can coexist under regimes based on ideas of democracy and progress.. . .I called my object 'Citizenship Otherwise'. I decided to submit an image of my US citizen passport to reflect on how the same citizenship can mean different things to different people in diverse historical and political contexts. I attempt to narrate a personal story of inequality through an object that I regularly use. This object represent my own experience with colonialism and inequality.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- feminisme, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, gender
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- Description provided by artist: .The photo was part of a project called 'Step in Inequality', designed by the artists Chandani Karnik in collaboration with Kazunori Shiina. The concept image represents an underground staircase. Women are asked to climb the traditional stairs, which takes longer and more effort, while men can use the escalator.. . .In the labour market, women are not only underpaid as compared to men, but they also have to work harder to make their mark and work their way up the corporate .ladder. The installation aims at visually representing how gender inequality can manifest itself, particularly in the business world by asking people to take two different .sets of stairs in order to show how 'the road to the top is not the same for men and women'. The concept image represents an underground staircase. Women are .asked to climb the traditional stairs, which takes longer and more effort, while men can use the escalator.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- homobewegingen, homocultuur, heteroseksisme, gender, feminisme, gelijke behandeling
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- Description provided by artist: .The banners were gifted to the researcher after the event 'Duckie's Tea Party' as part of the LGBT50 festival marking the 50 year anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK. The banners were part of the decoration for this particular event and spread across the central square of Hull entitled Queen Victoria Square.. .The banners stand as a reference for the festival which celebrates the LGBT+ community and gender/ sexual equality in the UK. The argumentation of such equality is based on the legal developments in the past 50 years. However, a festival in such manners expressed through these banners immediately raises the question of the lived reality of gender/ sexual minorities. Sexualities, love and idenities are subject to celebration for festivals. However, particularly in the city of Hull, the experience of marginality is still prominent throughout community, as even within the LGBT50 celebrations transphobic, homophobic assults were registered.. .Therefore, the banner in its particular display allows to question the difference between a momentary celebration and visibility of LGBT+ communities and the continuous realities of a supposedly gender/ sexual equality.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Birey, Tegiye > kunstenaar
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- theater, theatre, feminisme, patriarchy, patriarchaat, arts, kunsten, vluchtelingen, refugees, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling
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- 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/
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- Pinzari, Raluca > kunstenaar
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- poëzie, feminism, performance, arts, kunsten, gender, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, sexism, seksisme, actions, acties
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- 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/
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- sporten, sportberoepen, feminisme, patriarchaat, gender, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, sexism, seksisme
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- 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/
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- Trilló Tommaso > kunstenaar
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- feminism, feminisme, patriarchy, patriarchaat, gender, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism, equal pay, gelijke beloning
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- 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/
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- feminisme, black feminism, gelijke behandeling, gender
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- 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/
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- Trilló Tommaso > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, acties, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism
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- 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/
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- Pinzari, Raluca > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, acties, gelijke behandeling, seksisme
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- Description provided by the artist: .Alice is a 23-year-old young performer from Manchester, UK. The researcher met her at a poetry slam event at 3MT on Oldham Street. She stepped confidently on the stage and asked the public: 'Do you think we have equality? I tell you: we're not even close!'. Her poetry challenges society's ideals of beauty and she thinks people are scared of what's different and feel uncomfortable when others stray away from the 'norm'. She encourages young black women to embrace the desire of being different from what the patriarchal society expects them to be.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Cengiz, Zerrin > kunstenaar
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- roken, Turkije, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, gender
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- 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/
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- LHBT, gelijke behandeling, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
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- The banners were gifted to the researcher after the event 'Duckie's Tea Party' as part of .the LGBT50 festival marking the 50 year anniversary of the partial .decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK. The banners were part of the decoration .for this particular event and spread across the central square of Hull .entitled Queen Victoria Square.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Birey, Tegiye > kunstenaar
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- gelijke behandeling, grafische kunsten, Zweden, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
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- A collage of newspaper articles reflecting the ways in which gender .equality is discussed within the politics of migration in Sweden - including statements .from politicians, activists etc. Each article has traces from the artist of the engagements withthem (notes on the margins, highlighting etc).. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- verkrachtingen, gender, feminisme, patriarchaat, acties, gelijke behandeling, seksisme
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- Description provided by the artist: .Five men, known as 'The Wolf Pack' were accused of raping an 18-girl in Pamplona's San Fermín bull-running festival in 2016. The case became viral after the .Whatsapp messages of the group were shared on social media platforms and the judge of the case deciced to accept as evidence a report from a private detective in .which the girl's social media posts where shared. The posts were intended to show how she was on holidays having fun as evidence of her 'not being traumatized', .while the Whatsapp conversations of the rapists, in which they discussed the details of the the rape, were considered 'irrelevant' for the case. Feminists groups all .over Spain started the campaign 'Sister, I believe you' to support the victim and critisize the judge's handling of the case, which is just a reflection of how other gender .violence and sexual harasssment victims are being treated by the system and the media.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- moslima's, moslimfeminisme, Muslimas, Muslim feminism, acties, actions, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism
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- Description provided by the artist: .The object is a photo of a passerby looking at a mural by the artist Belén Deniz in the stairs of Campillín Park in Oviedo, Spain. The mural was part of the “Urban Art Contest: A World on the Move. Women and Refuge” in Oviedo (Spain) and portrays a muslim woman wearing a veil.. .The photo shows a mural that was painted by Belén Deniz in the stairs of Campillín Park in Oviedo (Spain) titled 'Moving without Borders'. The mural was part of the urban art contest 'A World on the Move. Women and Refuge', which sought to visibilize the reality of migrants and refugees in the city, but especially migrant and/or regugee women. .The mural can be considered an appropriation of urban public space by migrant and/or refugee women, but it is particularly significant because it shows an encounter between a passerby, a white woman who was staring at the mural, and the muslim woman from the painting, as if both women were in a conversation with each other. For a moment, they seem to be negotiating or acknowledging a shared space in the city, but at the same time the handrail reminds us of the presence of borders between them.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Pinzari, Raluca > kunstenaar
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- poëzie, feminisme, gender, patriarchy, patriarchaat, acties, actions, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism
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- 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/
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- Verderi, Sara > kunstenaar
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- refugees, vluchtelingen, feminisme, patriarchaat, patriarchy, gender, acties, actions, kunsten, arts, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism, armoede, poverty
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- Description provided by artist: .Painting by the Syrian caartonist Hossam al-Saadi on the occasion of the military siege of the city of Madayya, 50 Km north-west of Damascus. The siege has been causing severe malnutrition of the city inhabitants and is considered a war crime. Al-Saadi - who recently obtained a refugee status and currently resides in Brussels - has been using his art to convey different moments of Syrians struggle for life and freedom. The image I have chosen to submit depicts one of the recurrent themes of his work - a critique to .the discourse of equality and human rights as it is deployed by the international ommunity. compliance. The cartoonist mocks up his message in the form of the UN flag.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Levy, Johanna > kunstenaar
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- menstruatie, technologie, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, feminisme, biotechnologie
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- Description provided by the author: .I am currently analyzing my auto-ethnography, which is an emotional-digital protocol of the past year. The object aims to illustrate the coding process as well as some of the main issues that come up: privacy, intimacies, digital data-body-interactions, affects, sensations.. .It might question in_equalities between the researcher and the researched (since I am both here) and differences between human and non-human agents.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Hettinga, Lieke > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, patriarchaat, gelijke behandeling, seksisme
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- Description provided by the artist: .The object is a YouTube video titled 'In My Language'. The video consists of two parts. In the first part, Baggs communicates in their, what they call, 'native language', and in the second part, a computerized text-to-speech voice shares a statement on oppression and how language and communication figure in exclusionary practices. The video is often written about in online activist communities as well as scholarship on disability.. . .I think Baggs articulates a really powerful critique to normative models of the 'human' that fail to see them as a person. The video offers an insight into their world .while simultaneously challenges the (presumed neurotypical) viewer's capacity to become attuned to their world. The video is not just a statement, it's also a work of .art in its own right and beautiful to watch. It fits with the concept of Equality Otherwise because it addresses what kind of vocabulary we use to address injustice, as .well as the care we take in our capacity to attend to injustices.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- abortusstrijd, abortions, abortussen, feminisme, patriarchaat, patriarchy, acties, actions, action groups, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, sexism, seksisme
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- Description provided by artist: .Poland is currently ruled by a conservative majority who is attempting to implement a set of very restrictive laws regulating the intimate life of citizens. The most (in)famous of these is a legislative proposal to impose an almost complete ban on abortion. Polish women and men have been protesting quite vocally against this piece of legislation throughout the last few months. Despite this, the law was approved by one of the .two chambers of parliament, and has more than a fair chance to make it through the other chamber, too. Polish women are now organizing a nationwide strike on Monday, October 3rd as the most vocal form of protest staged so far.. .For obvious reasons, protests against the abortion ban have spilled over the Polish border, making the news in most other EU countries. Messages of solidarity and marches in support of Polish women have been taking place also abroad. On Wednesday, September 28th, the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament managed to get a discussion of the current issue on the agenda for the next .plenary session.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Szutenberg, Zuzanna
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- sports (eng), sporting occupations, sportberoepen, feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, patriarchy, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism
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- Description provide by artist: .The submitted items for the Gender and Cultures of Equality Museum project is a pair of pink boxing gloves. The struggle of women for equality has often been expressed - verbally as well as through metaphors - through notions of battle or fight against patriarchal oppression.. .The right to vote and to participate in public and political life,. .The access to knowledge, education and professional careers,. .The query for decent salaries and women’s economic independence,. .The control over women’s bodies, their physical integrity and legitimacy of pleasures, . .their reproductive and family life decisions,. .The availability of legal protection and medical care,. .- to name only some of the grand narratives of the Women’s Movements during the past century.. .All these movements were lengthy and painful struggles. Many women risked and many women lost their lives for the cause. Each of these milestones on the way to gender equality has its heroines, its championnesses, however the faces of the masses of anonymous women supporting their leaders remain unacknowledged. Most history books do not mention famous women, protagonists of world changing events, let alone their countless sisters.. .Still today, every day, women fight on their collective or individual gender fronts. Yet, equality is far from being achieved. Still today, every day „often nothing tangible remains of a woman’s day” (Virginia Woolf, 1929).. .Every woman has her own battle for gender equality to fight.. .Every little girl should be given a pair of pink boxing gloves.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Hettinga, Lieke > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, patriarchy, acties, actions, equal treatment, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sexism, queer, arts, kunsten
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- Description provided by the artist: .The short video ‘103 shots’ by artist Heather Cassils is a project that responds to the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It was filmed at the San Fransisco Pride, and features couples and friends hugging and embracing as a balloon between their bodies pops. The eerie sound of popping balloons allude to the shots fired in the Pulse nightclub. 103: for every life lost and person wounded.. .In their self-created safe space, queer people - mostly people of colour - were brutally attacked. The presumption of their safe space made many people are the party mistake the sounds of the gunshots for the beat of the music. The video and the accompanying description highlight the importance of bars and nightlife to queer culture. To me, the embrace around the popping balloon is a sharp image of how facility and intimacy are always wound up with each other, particularly for queer people. Cassils’ video simultaneously commemorates loss and celebrates queer existence, and it carries on a rich aesthetic and political tradition in queer activism.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Birey, Tegiye > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, gender, gelijke behandeling, acties, patriarchaat, seksisme
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- Description provided by artist: .Before we started our interview, I asked my informant if I can get something for them to drink. I ordered an Americano, so did they. As we were going through my questions and their answers and my occasional interruptions, I notice them breaking the coffee-stirrers in pieces and putting them together in different compositions, their eyes also focused on this. We both were not comfortable, I knew that I was touching upon issues that have caused them great discomfort, and I didn't know if I was equipped enough to be talking about these things with someone that I just met. Also, their stories felt increasingly familiar After a while, I found myself breaking the coffee-stirrers as well, and we joked that we are repurposing an object to get over our discomfort. It felt like I unconsciously adopted a contextual coping mechanism by sharing a moment of discomfort while I was present with the story of another, a story that was too familiar.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- feminisme, gelijke behandeling, gender
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- 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/
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- Trilló Tommaso > kunstenaar
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- feminisme, gender, gelijke behandeling, equal treatment, patriarchy, patriarchaat, sexism, seksisme, actiegroepen, action groups, acties, actions
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- 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/
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- feminism, feminisme, gender, gelijke behandeling, equal treatment, actions, acties, action groups, patriarchaat, patriarchy, seksisme, sexism
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- 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/
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- feminisme, acties, actiegroepen, gender, gelijke behandeling, patriarchaat, seksisme
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- 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/
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- gelijke behandeling, beeldende kunsten, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
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- The object is an image of a circle of chairs made by the artist. It is a circle of chairs which represents in an abstract way the concept of 'equality' that the artist is working with. . .In the words of the artist: 'Equality is not an end state, its more a strategy for .engagement, based in practice. This entails the creation or facilitation of 'moments of equality'. These moments consist of discussion, debate, and knowledge sharing. They facilitate change on a personal and structural level as they coalesce over time. The circle of chairs is a very typical spatial configuration to establish a horizontal exchange in gender training sessions, and to create a space where people feel safe to question themselves. This can be very powerful, and as one of the trainers I interviewed described it, 'it is an honour to have peoples attention'. With each iteration of the 'circle' another node can be added to the network of coalescing equality moments. Other times there is regression or loss, or a time of stagnancy where it seems that nothing is happening. Thus, equality work is necessarily an ongoing project.'. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- McArthur, Park > kunstenaar
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- handicapisme, gelijke behandeling, beeldende kunsten, Verenigde Staten, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw, foto
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- This is an installation shot of Park McArthur’s show titled 'Ramps' at the ESSEX STREET .gallery in New York City. The various different ramps belong to cultural institutions in .New York City that Park McArthur attends, and were built or purchased primarily so that .Park McArthur could use them.. .Description provided by the artist: 'By taking the ramp as an object of investigation, Park pushes the function of the ramp and thus shows the limitations to how disability is symbolized through the wheelchair user, and accessibility through the ramp.'. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- sportdeelname, gelijke behandeling, grafische kunsten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
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- Collage from newspaper cuttings from 2017 and 2018 about women in sport.. .Description provided by the artist: 'Women are participating in sport. This is a historical conquest as women have not been always allowed to participate in sport. Nevertheless, the increasingly current participation of women has not implied the transformation of sport as a male dominated sphere. Moreover, as a mean to ensure the dominion of men and patriarchal structures in sport, the presence of women, despite the lower in comparison to men - especially at the competitive level-, has been used to proclaim, that equality has already been achieved: in this way, any transformation seems to be needed. In this context, it is important to say not only that sport remains as a male sphere, but also that the presence of women remains precarious and that equality has not been achieved.'. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- sportdeelname, seksueel geweld, gelijke behandeling, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
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- The collage contains images of women in sport gathered in English newspapers during the last months of 2017 and the first months of 2018. These images are 'framed' by headlines that make reference to sexual violence against women in the sport context and beyond. At the centre of the collage, there is a headline that says, 'United in a plea for equality and freedom from violence', as a way to depict the demands for equality made by women in sport and which have been taken place in a context of violence.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- gelijke behandeling, beeldende kunsten, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
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- A corkboard with 12 DVD's pasted on it upside down to diffract light. All of the DVD's are provided with quotes from the interviews between the artist and filmmakers as part of her research. All of these quotes are insights related with equality and difference.. .The second object is a mirror with a quote in which Haraway states the differences between two optical metaphors: diffraction and reflection. . .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Hettinga, Lieke > kunstenaar
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- slavernij, feminisme, discriminatie, gelijke behandeling, kunsten
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- Description provided by the artist: .Rana Hamadeh’s exhibition is part of a long-term project, also titled ‘Ten Murders of Josephine’. This exhibition was a spatial realization of an opera piece that was also performed in December. The space functions as the factory or assembly line for that opera, lasting 45 minutes. The visitor walks through this sonic landscape, shifting through the different movements of the opera. Among various references in the exhibition, there is a central presence for the court case of the Zong massacre, where the slave holders threw the enslaved off the ship the hope to receive insurance money over their ‘cargo’. Hamadeh takes this court case, where only the voices of the slave holders .could be heard, as an entry point into the problem of testimony and absent speech. ‘Ten Murders of Josephine’ is an inquiry into how violence can be attended to when confronted with absence, using voice and sound as instruments in creating space for these reflections.. .This exhibition inspired me in two ways, one is more related to sound and design, the other more conceptual. What I loved about this exhibition was the sonic immersion. I’ve never seen an exhibition that was so holistic, where you experienced the entirety of it instead of individual pieces. There weren’t even any description tags, you had to surrender to the entirety of the space. The rooms had a fantastic sound system that made you feel every vibration, and small red bulbs indicated in which room the sound was present at the moment, allowing you to enter the stages of the opera timeline. The .sound guided you, and gave you a physical as well as temporal framework for being in the space. Then I think it is so interesting how Hamadeh tries to deal with a history that is marked by absence. How do you account for stories, voices, sounds that have been .suppressed? Without recuperating this absence into some sort of presence, but to gesture to the absence so that we understand it as absent? A really cool example .of the 'otherwise'.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- feminisme, gender, patriarchaat, gelijke behandeling, seksisme, sporten, sportberoepen
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- Description provided by artist: .Do objects are gendered? They are. .Handguards are compulsory for female amateur boxers in competitions. On the other hand, in 2013, its use by male boxers was repealed of mandatory by the .amateur’s boxing international governing body, AIBA. .Head injuries are more likely wearing a head guard as they whip boxer’s head around, according to an AIBA’s study. However, arguing lack of “scientific” data for the .case of women, they should still wear it. Are women’s and men’s so different that the evidence is not enough to exclude women as well from using these items, or .using a feminist perspective: is that an international body, through a policy, is communicating that women we are a specie different than men? Or is it preventing to .exposure the fact that woman fight and bleed as male [boxers] do? Or is it reaffirming the discourse that a women should be pretty, otherwise it’s better not see her? .Wearing a head guard in a boxing fight is uncomfortable: you cannot see properly and it could move from its place. But what is most uncomfortable is the perverse .und sexist use of objects as well as biased scientific discourses and policies to reaffirm gender essentialist discourses and gender norms which led to inequality.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- Pinzari, Raluca > kunstenaar
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- feminism, feminisme, gender, patriarchy, patriarchaat, actions, acties, poëzie, poetry, gelijke behandeling, equal treatment, sexism, seksisme
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- Description provided by author: .The photo was taken by Paula Díaz on December 3rd, 2016 in Madrid. It represents Sara Hirsch, a young poetry performer from London, UK. Poetry Slam Madrid International (organized by Poetry Slam Madrid Association) took place at La Neomudéjar welcoming poetry performers from different countries and continents. This poetry slam event was a two round competition and Sara Hirsch, the youngest performer at this event, won the public’s attention and laughters. Each poet has 3 minutes to perform a poem and .the audience decides the symbolic winner. Information about the event and artists: .https://www.flickr.com/photos/poetryslammadrid/31955936682/in/album72157677058165981/. .https://poetryslammadrid.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/slammadrid-2016/. .https://poetryslammadrid.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/ganadora-de-la-iv-muestra-internacional-de-po3try- .slam-sara-hirsch/. .http://www.laneomudejar.com/poetry-slam/. .The information provided in these links is in Spanish.. .This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/
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- profsporten, hormonen, zwarte vrouwen, gelijke behandeling, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw, video
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- The video 'Semenya wins gold in Women's 800m Final' published by the Olympic. Channel in Youtube in August 2016, during the Rio Olympic Games, is played backwards (and speed up) as a metaphor of the discriminatory decisions taken by the International Association of Athletics Federations against the athlete. Also, it depicts how the International Association testosterone-related regulations targeting women represent a historical backlash in what matters to equality. This artwork is part of the project Footnotes on Equality: http://footnotesonequality.eu/all/