March 5th at 17.00, Klub Gromka

Book presentation

New Feminism. Queer and Networking Conditions
Löcker Verlag, www.loecker.at, Vienna, 2008
English language, 474 pages, black and white images; ISBN 978-3-85409-472-2

Speakers at the presentation are the co-editors, Marina Gržinić (Slovenia) and Rosa Reitsamer (Austria), and contributors Reni Hofmüller (Austria) and Đjurđa Knežević (Croatia). The second Slovenian contributor, Nataša Velikonja, is going to be available for individual questions and conversations after the presentation.

The book is going to be available for sale during and after the presentation. The printing of the book is supported by ZRC-SAZU and company Amidas from Ljubljana.

In English.

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About the book New Feminism. Queer and Networking Conditions

New Feminism. Queer and Networking Conditions with 41 contributions by 60 theoreticians, artists, activists opens the discussion on the most internal changes of feminism today, asking what are the conditions within global capitalism that inform and reshape its concepts, paradigms and statements in relation to labor, migration, capital and democracy.

Claiming that a territory wider than just the first world capitalism exists, and also that the geographical opening practiced by global capitalism is not enough, we ask for an urgent introduction into feminist theory and practice of questions, topics and agendas that react against (wo)men trafficking, the forces of migration and bare lives, and reflect on possible new mode(l)s of their representation and articulation.

New Feminism is a term that tries, firstly, to break the simple continuity in the feminist movement and, secondly, to re-engage new agencies and topics within the movement. The idea was to present a "declaration" of very important signatures and positions, which should no longer be perceived as a geographical extravaganza, but instead as a clear re-politicization of the movement of feminism.

Marina Gržinić, Rosa Reitsamer

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Marina Gržinič is a philosopher and activist and works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the ZRC SAZU (Scientific and Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Art) in Ljubljana. She is also a freelance media theorist, art critic and curator. She is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Her last book is Situated Contemporary Art Practice. Art and Activism from (the East of) Europe (Revolver, Frankfurt 2004).
Together with Aina Smid, Gržinić is involved in video and media art from 1982. With Aina Smid: http://grzinic-smid.si
Vir: http://www.cityofwomen.org/

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Rosa Reitsamer is a sociologist, writer and DJ. She has been working and researching in areas related to the representation of women in visual arts, popular culture and music, and is also the editor of the queer magazine Female Sequences. In 2002, in conjunction with Anthony Auerbach, Rosa Reitsamer organised Mons Veneris: Female Geographies at the Austrian Cultural Forum London. This group event dealt with works on sexuality by women artists from the so-called post-communist countries and the West. In 2004 she conceived and realised the symposium entitled Geteilte Territorien. Umkämpfte Gemeinsamkeiten with Jo Schmeiser. It addressed the limits and chances of co-operation between individuals and groups who have different - i.e. dominant or marginalized - positions in society. Reitsamer is currently working on a program about the Viennese gallery atmosphere with Michaela Muhr and Manuela Schreibmayer; she is also working on the exhibition Born to be White: Rassismus und Antisemitismus in der weißen Mehrheitsgesellschaft with Jo Schmeiser.
Članek: http://www.republicart.net/
Vir: http://www.cityofwomen.org

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Reni Hofmüller is an artist, musician, composer, performer, organizer and activist in the fields of usage of (new) media, technology and politics in general, engaged in development of contemporary art.

Co-founder and initiator of:
ESC im LABOR, an »experimentell« non-commercial art space, started in 1993(http://esc.mur.at/); Radio Helsinkia noncommercial radio station in Graz, started in 1995(http://helsinki.mur.at/), currently its president;
mur.at, the net art platform, established in 1998, is a strategic alliance of art initiatives and artists of Graz and dedicated to creating an electronic network(http://mur.at/)
42, a women's artists group for new media production (http://42.mur.at/)
AND:
last president of Eva & Co, a feminist artists group(http://ursprung.mur.at/eva_co);
Ex-member of LTNC - Lady Tiger Night Club (http://ltnc.mur.at/);
part of the Eclectic Tech Carnival preparation team (http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org/);
member of Institut für Medienarchäologie (http://www.ima.or.at/?language=en);

http://renitentia.mur.at/

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Đurđa Knežević graduated in History and Archeology at the University of Zagreb. She is a founding member of the first feminist organization in FY, “Woman and Society,” which was founded and registered in 1977. In 1990, she became the first coordinator of the Independent Association of Women in Croatia, in 1992 she co-founded the Center for Women War Victims in Zagreb, in 1992 she founded Women’s Infoteka - Women’s Information and Documentation Center in Zagreb, since 1994, she is a founder and a chief editor of the feminist magazine Bread and Roses (Kruh i ruže), since 1995 she is the chief editor of a series of feminist books within Ženska infoteka publishing project, since 1996, she is organizing an international annual seminar in Dubrovnik on political participation of women in Central and Eastern European Countries. As a publicist and writer, published numbers of articles, essays and interviews in Croatia and abroad. For the last three years she has been a regular columnist Croatian daily Novi List – political and cultural weekly supplement Pogled. She is also the columnist for the Croatian internet news portal Zamirzine.
Đurđa Knežević also published two books of fiction and one children book.

Link: http://www.zinfo.hr/

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Nataša Velikonja is a poet and activist.