Svetlana Makarovič

"It's absurd that somebody like me should open a feminist festival" - Svetlana Makarovič opened the feminist and queer festival Red dawns yesterday in Menza pri koritu, explaining why she absolutely doesn't want to be associated to feminism.

In a way it was a suiting opening of a festival that is representing so many conflicting views of the topics it wants to present.

Thank you for coming Svetlana!

More pictures can be seen on the rdece flickr.

Anna Ehrlemark

New Feminism - a book presentation

The first action after the morning workshops at the first festival day was a book presentation of "New Feminism. Queer and Networking Conditions" (Loecker, Vienna, 2008) with the co-editors and two contributors of the book. The subtitle of the book is according to the co- editor Marina Grzinic "New Feminism is politics", but still it remains the question, what does it mean new feminism and can a new feminism begin and an old on ends or isn' t it more a new way in the development of feminism. The presentation of the book could not really give an answer to this and that could be also seen as a result of the way of presentation. The four presenters gave more or less a short overview of what they aimed with the book or in particular with their article but no real discussion came up - unfortunately. Unfortunately, because all of them had a very different view on what "new feminism" can be or what it is not and why the necessity for change in feminism exists. And for sure a discussion about this could have shown more precisely what is meant by their concept and maybe some open questions at the end could have been answered more easily. Anyway it got clear that the motor for publishing this book is the fact, that the publishers think that it became necessary to rethink feminism in new capitalism and that the need came up to write a feminism from a different perspective than the "white, western,middle class" one. They wanted to include an understanding that there is not THE feminism but a lot of different circumstances that brought up, feminist and queer movement in the so called "1st, 2nd and 3rd world" and that until now the situation for gender and queer movements are pretty different in all the different countries represented in the book.

But what is the political part in it? On the one hand the publishing of the book itself was described as a political act, in order to be a "writing against conventions" because it is a book that nearly nobody wanted to support and that got only a very little interest also among people dealing with the topic. But on the other hand the political part can be also seen in the fact, that at least some of the authors (61 authors were involved and so it is hard to generalize) tried to "re-politicize" feminism, that during the last period got more and more into a institutional status, by making it an active process again and showing that still feminism, gender - or queer studies are in motion and different in all the parts of the world. If that is enough to be called political again or how far beyond the common use of "political" it goes can hardly be answered without reading the book, but doubtless there might be found some interesting thoughts about "being political" in queer and gender movements in the 41 texts.

How the presenters of the book managed to reach their aim to explain why and why for "new feminism" or what is the aim of the collection of articles by gender, queer and feminist theorist and activist did not turn out clear during the presentation. However one fact got obvious, that this book may not redefine the world, but it reached to collect articles on the topic that were written by authors, that still are not perceived much in scholar discussions at the topic, at least in the so called "western world" and still to get a closer look of the idea, it is still up to you to read the book.

Antje Höhne

Donna Metzlar, Genderchangers

Here is what Donna Metzlar has to say about the brave new world of technology conscious consumers!

As opposed to most of us, the Genderchangers are conscious technology consumers, with a holistic view on the technology that dictates our daily lives, work and relationships whether we want it or not. I suppose most of us believe you have to be a real nerd with lots of free time to get on top of it, but I suspect you would try to convince me that's not true. Shoot!

You need a certain attitude, a political consciousness, the same kind as that of being concerned about other consumer products like food and clothes, about the environment, about human rights. We spend a lot of time learning to cook in a vegetarian or vegan way, consume less and relax, take yoga classes or singing lessons. With computers it should be no different. It's just as much the right thing to do, and fun to look at the hardware and software you use in a critical way!

So far, nobody applied to the computer hard ware crash course, perhaps people think a computer is rocket science that you better not play around with… Why exactly is it good to get to know the intestines of your computer?

Practically it means you know what to choose, ie you can make an informed decision, the next time you want to buy a new or upgrade an old computer or some software. Additionally you can fix it yourself and don't need to rely on others to do it for you. And you can converse in as eloquent jargonesque as the sales representative in the shop or on line. That's good for your ego :).

Neither the workshop about privacy and security on the Internet seems to attract much attention in Ljubljana, which reminds me of something i read recently in an interview in Wired: «People say they're nervous about storing personal info online, but they do it all the time – sacrificing privacy to save time and money.» So whats wrong with people? And is there real reason that we should be worried about our privacy on the net - who's after our personal information?

There's nothing wrong with people they just have to prioritise their time and money, and obviously other issues are higher on the list. I think this is a shame however. The ICT industry is only getting bigger and more influential, run by less people every minute, increasing our dependence on these few, the owners, architects, engineers, designers and maintainers.

Genderchangers are not gender hackers, you've made a conscious decision to work with and for women only, why?

From my own experience and from research findings I can confidently say that in women-only spaces the participants feel more comfortable to express themselves (eg ask so called silly questions). In addition the space is a testing ground, where women can become accustomed to the techie sub-culture before experiencing it in the "real" or mixed world. When talking about skill-sharing and learning, a context sensitive, peer environment generally results in better levels of skills and knowledge acquisition.

Anna Ehrlemark

SATURDAY NIGHT FOX

Today after a final logistic meeting to untie the last knots before the storm of festival guest next week, we spent all afternoon and evening printing foxes. Mateja says we are becoming professional! All the fox eyes in the right place! Next year - inshallah - we'll have our new silk screen printing studio equipped and ready to fulfill our tehnicolor dreams...

The t-shirts will be on sale during the festival, but if you have your own shirt you would like to crown with a fox, you can come by for the second round on monday afternoon, in (A)-infoshop.

Anna Ehrlemark

Vabilo na predfestivalski dogodek

9. mednarodni feministični in queer festival Rdeče zore

vas vljudno vabi na predfestivalski dogodek:

projekciji umetniških videov

Ane Grobler in Slađane Mitrović,

ki bo v ponedeljek, 3. marca, ob 18.00 v knjižnici Otona Župančiča, enota Kolodvor ( v železniškem podhodu).

Vabljene, vabljeni!

www.kudmreza.org/rdece

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Slađana Mitrović (Slovenija): Koža Special (video, 2007, 02:56 min)

Refleksija ženske biti in ženske identitete v sodobni kapitalistični družbi, ki nenehno proizvaja popolne podobe žensk-objektov.

Ana Grobler (Slovenija): Migrena /Migraine, (video, 2007, 05:23 min)

»Migrenski avtoportret« je nastajal med migrenskim napadom in je kot tak prežet z bolečino. Z video efekti prikaže, približa in pomaga občutiti stanje obolelega v času migrene.

Podrobnosti: http://www.kudmreza.org/rdece/artist%20pages/ana_grobner.html

Na ogled do 10. marca 2008.

Urnik: pon. – pet., 8.00 – 20.00

Lisička je prav zvita zver... 2008!

Lisička je prav zvita zver,
u Lublan’ma ona svoj kvartir.
Sam donc ni doma,
na Metelkovo j'šla,
na pravljice, musko in pir.

Oj, lovec mlad tud šel je pet,
s spolom igrat se in fajn se imet,
in res, bil je ženska,
lisica j'bla dec,
in tko obrnila sta red!

RDEČE DELAVNICE OD 5. DO 8. MARCA!

Sreda, 5. marec 2008

12.00 - 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (stavba Pešci)

Računalniška delavnica / The GenderChangers

Donna Metzlar (Nizozemska): Kratki tečaj iz strojne opreme

Na tečaju bomo razstavile in ponovno sestavile računalnik. Razjasnile si bomo računalniški žargon, besede kot so: port, plug, bus, interface, PCB, kartica, procesor, spomin, shramba, cache, master, slave in BIOS. Udeleženke ne potrebujejo nobenega predznanja ali izkušenj.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Samo za ženske. Prijave zbiramo do 2. marca na naslovu rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Tečaj o strojni opremi).

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14.00 – 17.00, Klub SOT-24,5

Umetniška šiviljska delavnica

Helen Terry (Velika Britanija / Nizozemska): Iznajdljiva moda

Helen Terry, strastna »naredi-sama« oblikovalka, izkušena v tehnikah reciklaže, bo udeleženkam pomagala osvežiti staro garderobo. Prinesite stare obleke in jih rešite pred žalostno usodo z barvami, šablonami, našitki in drugimi izvirnimi dodatki.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Za vse. Prijave sprejemamo do 2. marca na naslovu rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Iznadljiva moda)

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Četrtek, 6. marec 2008

12.00 - 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (stavba Pešci)

Računalniška delavnica / The GenderChangers

Donna Metzlar (Nizozemska): Delavnica o zasebnosti in varnosti

Na delavnici bo prikazano, kako podatki potujejo po internetu in kako enkripcija, ključi (PGP, Enigmail plug-in za Thunderbird), certifikati (CACert) in aplikacije za anonimnost kot sta Tor in Privoxy ščitijo vaše podatke pred radovednimi očmi.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Samo za ženske. Prijave sprejemamo do 2. marca na naslovu rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Delavnica o zasebnosti in varnosti).

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12.00 – 16.00, dvorišče pred Menzo pri koritu

Avtomehanična delavnica

Ksenija Glavač (Slovenija) bo predstavila osnove avtomehaničnih popravil in pokazala, kako zamenjati gume, olje, žarnice, varovalke…

Brezplačno. V slovenščini in angleščini. Samo za ženske. Prijave sprejemamo do 2. marca na naslovu rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Avtomehaničarke).

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14.00 – 17.00, Klub SOT-24,5

Umetniška šiviljska delavnica

Emeli Röndahl (Švedska): Krvave norme

Šiviljska delavnica nagovarja absurdno »ljudsko obrt« heteronormativnega nasilja. Nevidno bolečino spreminja v vezenine v obliki ran. V tej queer »švicfabriki« z lakom, lasmi, sukancem, barvami, lepilom in blagom proizvajamo ranjene našitke, podplut street art in folklorne rane.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Za vse. Prijave sprejemamo do 2. marca na naslovu rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Krvave norme).

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18.00, Ženska svetovalnica (Langusova 21, Ljubljana - Vič)

Delavnica o preprečevanju izgorelosti

Zoe in Sunčica, Žene na delu (Srbija): Feministična politika skrbi

Delavnica je namenjena svetovalkam, ki delajo na SOS telefonih, v ženskih centrih, svetovalnicah in varnih hišah, torej tistim, ki delajo z ženskami in dekleti (pa tudi z otroki), žrtvami različnih oblik nasilja. Delavnica temelji na prepričanju, da imamo pri tako pomembnem socialnem delu odgovornost najprej do sebe: aktivno in zavestno moramo skrbeti tudi za lastno duševno zdravje in varnost.

Brezplačno. V srbskem ali angleškem jeziku (odvisno od želja udeleženk). Samo za ženske. Število udeleženk je omejeno. Prijave zbiramo do 2. marca na naslovu: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Burn-out).

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Petek, 7. marec 2008

12.00 – 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (stavba Pešci)

Računalniška delavnica / The GenderChangers

Urška Merc (Slovenija / Nizozemska): HTML / CSS delavnica

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) je preprosto sredstvo za spreminjanje izgleda spletnih dokumentov, ki se izogne spreminjanju njihove strukture. Deluje tako, da loči vizualne oblikovne elemente (fonte, barve, robove, velikosti, ozadja itd.) od strukturne logike spletne strani in tako omogoča poigravanje z obliko brez strahu, da se zruši struktura vsebine.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Samo za ženske. Prijave zbiramo do 2. marca na naslovu rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: CSS delavnica).

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12.00 – 16.00, [A] Infoshop

Delavnica poetičnega recikliranja e-odpada

R.G. Gözüm (Turčija): Poezija odpadlih tipkovnic

Na delavnici vas bo borka za človekove pravice, snemalka, video umetnica in VJ-ka R.G. Gözüm poučila o težavah, ki jih povzroča e-odpad, vam pojasnila, kaj e-odpad je, in vam predstavila različne metode recikliranja e-odpada. Potem bomo z izvijači preučile anatomijo starih tipkovnic in jih spremenile v reciklirano, dobesedno žarečo poezijo.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Samo za ženske. Prijave zbiramo do 2. marca na naslovu: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Recikliranje e-odpada).

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14.00 – 17.00, Klub SOT-24,5

Drugi del umetniških šiviljskih delavnic

Emeli Röndahl (Švedska): Krvave norme

Helen Terry (Velika Britanija / Nizozemska): Moda iznajdljivih

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16.00 – 18.00, Klub Tiffany

Pirsing delavnica

Kaamala (Slovenija) nudi svetovanje in možnost pirsanja.

V slovenščini in angleščini. Za vse. Pristojbina po dogovoru (priporoča okrog 10 €). Število udeleženk in udeležencev je omejeno. Prijave do 3. marca na telefon 031 487 238 ali naslovu kaamala7@gmail.com

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Sobota, 8. marec 2008

12.00 – 16.00, KUD Mreža studio (stavba Pešci)

Računalniška delavnica / Žene na delu

Majda Puača in Milica Gudović (Srbija): Delavnica o programskih aplikacijah Drupal in Joomla

Drupal je odprtokodna programska oprema, ki omogoča individualno ali skupinsko uporabo orodja za objavljanje, upravljanje in organiziranje skupnostnih spletnih portalov, forumov, korporativnih spletnih strani, blogov, resursnih direktorijev itd. Joomla CMS je večnamenska odprtokodna aplikacija za ustvarjanje spletnih strani. Z njo lahko brez vsakršnega oblikovalskega in programerskega predznanja ustvarite svojo lastno spletno stran. Na delavnici bo predstavljeno njeno delovanje, instaliranje na vaš računalnik in delo s preprostimi primeri sistemov.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Samo za ženske. Prijave zbiramo do 2. marca na naslovu rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Drupal / Joomla).

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12.00 – 16.00, [A] Infoshop

Drugi del delavnice poetičnega recikliranja e-odpada

R.G. Gözüm (Turčija): Poezija odpadlih tipkovnic

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14.00, Klub SOT-24,5

Pogovor / Delavnica

Noha Ramadan (Avstralija / Nizozemska): Telo kot prostor akcije

Avstralska performerka, filozofinja in ulična aktivistka bo konceptualizirala telo kot sredstvo in prostor taktičnega uličnega aktivizma, ki z nepričakovanim, nenavadnim in »neumestnim« gibanjem lahko pretrese in zmoti vnaprej določene pomene javnega prostora – in telesa. Na željo udeleženk in udeležencev se bo pogovor spremenil v pripravo na dejansko ulično akcijo.

Brezplačno. V angleščini. Za vse. Predhodna prijava ni potrebna, zaradi prostorskih omejitev je najava vseeno priporočljiva. Naslov: rdece.zore@gmail.com (Zadeva: Telo kot prostor akcije).