You are invited to refresh your memory and have a laugh at the photo exhibition of the past four Red Dawns festivals (2004-07). Photos were taken by Anna Ehrlemark, Jasmina Klančar, Lisa Newman, Matija Praznik and Špela Oberstar. The exhibition also includes a flip-book with collected images from the 1000 Tiny Sexes workshop and posters questioning the relationship between sex and economy which were part of the Sex, Work and Society exhibition.
The exhibition will be in Kolodvor Library in Ljubljana (in the passage way under the main train station).
The exhibition opening will be on Thursday, April 5th 2007 at 20.00
WELCOME! (Open until April 30th.)
Library Kolodvor opening hours: Mon-Fri between 8:00 and 20:00
More info in Slovenian on: http://www.koz.si/
28 marec 2007
Red Dawns photo exhibition opening!
20 marec 2007
Questions about sex, work and society
Working on the brochure text for Red Dawns festival we decided to create a questionnaire with the questions that came up in our research, curatorial and artistic processes and that each of us have considered as the most important. Soon, an idea appeared - to make posters out of the questions and to spread them in Ljubljana's public spaces. To put the questions on posters is the attempt to place them in society, to make them public on a broader base.
The posters are available in English and Slovenian at Alkatraz Gallery. Come, take and spread!
(The posters were made and this letter was written by Julia Wieger, Elke Auer, Esther Straganz, Eva Jantschitsch and Eva Egermann.)
14 marec 2007
How to change your sex and gender in a thousand tiny ways?
The 1000 Tiny Sexes workshop was attended by some very kul people from the furthest possible places - Iceland, Russia, USA, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Slovenia. Really, we came and continually come from landscapes all of our own, not fenced by political geography. We discussed gender and sex.
On the first day, we talked about situations which make us feel most reduced to our sex and gender. We countered those with situations in which we can "forget" about our sexual or gender identity because it simply doesn't matter - or is accepted in all its clarity/confusion. The exchange of experiences and feelings that followed seemed to lead to one narrow difference; the difference between situations in which we feel safe and accepted and situations in which we feel uncomfortable, even threatened. Because the latter are really common, lots of us were saying the same thing all over: we feel safe when we are alone, we forget about our sexed selves when we masturbate or have sex, when we are with friends.
The second day tiredness and the bike repairing workshop stole half of the participants. We drew 1000 tiny sexes and wrote down instructions about how to change your sex (temporarily or forever) and gender in a thousand tiny ways...
Thanks to everyone who participated! If you have drawn or written something on your own and would like to submit it to kanarinka and Jaimes Mayhew together with the rest of us... please write and send your contribution to rdece.zore@gmail.com
These are our paper traces:
13 marec 2007
Deconstructing Cooking Workshop
Before the 1st and founding meeting of women's, feminist and queer festivals in the Balkans, Zoe led a five minute workshop to make 5-minute-sweets, especially valuable for big festivals and at home when you have house full of guests.
The recipe:
1 banana and/or 1/2 kiwi
1 chocolate spread
2 biscuits
Peel a banana, spread the chocolate over it, crush the biscuit all over and ... start an orgasmic eating. For post orgasmic experience try the same with half of a kiwi.
n by Dunja)
Danijela Majstorović
Documentary film director Danijela Majstorović from Banja Luka came to Red Dawns to present her two documentaries: counterpoint for her and Dream Job and answered many many questions regarding the making of her documentaries and regarding the current social and political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Photo by Mikhail Nemtsev.
Reclaim the Streets!
On the night from March 8th, the International Women's Day, to March 9th, an anonymous group of activists reclaimed Ljubljana's streets. Or, to be exact, renamed them.
We were wery delighted and amused by the action which was documented a few days later by photographer Nada Žgank.
Red Dawns' team found the action higly amusing - especially because we have heard that similar actions happened recently in Sarajevo and Zagreb. Coincidence? A coordinated international feminist action? Or simply another proof of the unpredictable yet often coinciding birth and realizations of the same idea at the same time on a different place... Hoooray!
All Nada Žgank's photos can be seen on: http://www.mementoimage.com/ulice/
11 marec 2007
10 marec 2007
09 marec 2007
Surgemony III: Here with You
gyrl grip (Llewyn Máire and Lisa Newman) performance or install/action Surgemony III: Here with you is going to happen in front of Klub Monokel tomorrow, on Saturday, March 10th between 19.30 and 20.30.
In July of 2004, Llewyn Máire underwent a gonadectomy – the removal of gonads – in preparation for full sexual reassignment surgery at some point in the future [funding permitting]. Lisa Newman recorded the entire process on video.
This experience and video footage has led to the development of a series of performances and “install/actions” titled “Surgemony”.
In “Surgemony I: Loving the Alien”, through text, action and surgical video, we created a snapshot of our lives leading up to the surgery, and the fears and reactions from our friends and family.
In “Surgemony II: Segue”, through
the use of movement and surgical video, we explored the rediscovery of intimate touch after a physical and hormonal change.
There is a huge lack of writings, research, and discussion around intimacy and sexuality within people in transition – and even less on the partners of trans/intergender people.
Hence, in "Surgemony III: Here with You", through action and documentation from "Segue", we will be celebrating some of these relationships, both past and present.
www.gyrl-grip.net
Photos by Llewyn and Anna.
07 marec 2007
Nino Jaeger - Pipistrello: Dolce Vita
Some photos from the (making of the) opening of exhibition in lesbian Klub Monokel.
Program changes & update
Hi, there has been some program changes... and some new people coming! Here they go:
The Friday night concert was originally supposed to include bands Pauline in Rage from Vienna and zero2nine from Basel. Both bands cancelled, each for reasons of their own. Instead, you are invited to come to Menza pri koritu and listen to the following bands:
Evazija - anarcho hardcore band from Zagreb
First Fatal Kiss - pop-punk-new wave-garage rock from Vienna.
During the First Fatal Kiss show, VJs Small but Dangers are going to create live images using the newest technology – an overhead projector!
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There is one more workshop coming up on Monday, March 12th between 12.00 amd 14.00 in Hostel Celica, Središe Gallery
Music workshop with The Tiptons (USA)
Music games of improvisation and composition
The workshop is meant for musicians and music students. The participants are asked to bring their own instruments. Together we will investigate different technics of experimenting and composing music. With the inspiration from The Tiptons’ own music we will create some compositions of our own. We hope that the participants will contribute their own ideas and experiences.
Information and applications: Jessica Lurie, zipa@earthlink.net
Or just come...
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Please, check the blog in a day or two to find out the date & place of the surprise performance or instal-action by Gyrl Grip: Surgemony III: Here with You.
The performance or “install-action” conducted by American artists Llewyn Máire and Lisa Newman explores the rediscovery of intimate touch after a physical and hormonal change through the use of movement and video.
See ya!
06 marec 2007
Last minute, first minute
We are printing.
We are decorating.
We are preparing the exhibitions.
We are nervously
rehearsing our miss World potentials.
We are unpatient.
Tonight, tonight, tonight...
04 marec 2007
01 marec 2007
Jumbo poster
Promotion storm.
Jumbo poster.
On a cloudy day.
Drying the paint.
Miss Rdeče Zore
and mister Plakat
hanging out infront of
Rdeče Zore head quarters,
where the temperature
is raising,
less than a week to go!
...
