Lana Zdravković / Kitch: No.1

No. 1 is bold. She defies the dominant logic of factuality, counting and recounting that is backgrounded in economy, law-regulation, and marketing of the dominant dispositive of anti-politics. No. 1 is arrogant. She knows that resistance in those circumstances can only be collective, even though she knows very well that the quality of multitude depends on the quality of an individual. No.1 is rude. By constantly working on herself she affirms the gesture of emancipatory subjectivation that refuses the counting logic and reveals a scandalous fact:  politics is based on “incorrect” counting that opens the space of absence of any governance. No. 1 is dangerous as she is self-conscious. No. 1 is human as she is artificial. No. 1 is the one as she is the multitude.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (študentje, upokojenci/students, seniors)

Produced by: Kitch in collaboration with City of Women

Supported by: City municipality of Ljubljana

Foto: Nada Žgank

Simona Semenič: THE SECOND TIME

The performance the second time that premiered on the 20^th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women in 2014 is a sequel to her first solo; where the first solo ends, the second one begins. Literally. “Let me smoke,” the last line in the performance I, Victim. is the first line in the performance the second time. Simona recounts her recent years during which she has been coping – in one way or the other –with the aggravation of her epilepsy and – what else? – the health system.

The performance is in English.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (students, seniors)

Foto: Nada Žgank

Simona Semenič: I, VICTIM.

Simona Semenič’s first solo theatre piece entitled I, Victim. premiered on the 13th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women Festival in 2007. The autobiographical text and performance that Simona directs and performs herself deals with her close encounters with the dark forces of one kind and another. She shares her experience with epilepsy and the health system, with genital herpes and the health system and a bunch of other things and the health system.

Performer: Maruša Majer

The performance is in English.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (students, seniors)

Foto: Nada Žgank

Missing autobiography, poetics of the body, pronominal politics

It is not easy to find the “right way” to subvert the practices of excluding the “feminist point of view” from philosophy, literature and art. In order to open this narrow door, the festival event this year include autobiography as an integral part of critical theory and new martial arts.

Participants: Laura Hengehold, Polona Mesec, Metka Zupančič, Elena Pečarič, Valerija Vendramin, Eva D. Bahovec

Admission free.

Lana Zdravković / Kitch: NO. 1

No. 1 is bold. She defies the dominant logic of factuality, counting and recounting that is backgrounded in economy, law-regulation, and marketing of the dominant dispositive of anti-politics. No. 1 is arrogant. She knows that resistance in those circumstances can only be collective, even though she knows very well that the quality of multitude depends on the quality of an individual. No.1 is rude. By constantly working on herself she affirms the gesture of emancipatory subjectivation that refuses the counting logic and reveals a scandalous fact:  politics is based on “incorrect” counting that opens the space of absence of any governance. No. 1 is dangerous as she is self-conscious. No. 1 is human as she is artificial. No. 1 is the one as she is the multitude.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (študentje, upokojenci)

Foto: Nada Žgank

Nataša Živkovič: SONNY

A woman is a sack made to endure. – the Kanun, the Code of Lekë Dukagjini from the Middle Ages, north Albania and Kosovo.

#Unwanted. That’s a common girl name in our Montenegro. – a Women’s Rights Centre poster of a campaign against selective abortion practice, Montenegro, 2017

Montenegro’s last “virgina” has died. Her last wish was for her family-grave epitaph to describe her as her father’s only surviving son. – Blic, 2 August 2016

Sonny! – says a close relative when I visit her in Montenegro.

Sonny is an attempt at an anthropological research of a specific phenomenon in a performative form. It is an amazed fascination with images and stories of sworn virgins or “virginas” from the remote parts of Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo and Metohija. It is a hole in the system which maintains that same system. It is drag in relation to the question of surviving in a man’s world asking us in what world we live.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (študentje, upokojenci)

Foto: Nada Žgank

Fierce Women

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman,” wrote Virginia Woolf, and the truthfulness of her words is still confirmed every time we ask someone who the anonymous writer is.

Fierce Women is an inspiring card game for every generation that familiarizes its players with women’s contributions in the fields of culture, politics, science, feminism, human rights and art. It empowers its players to break down prejudices about women’s abilities, interests and achievements, and inspires new generations of fierce women – all of this while providing great fun!

Admission free.

TRANSFER|CIRCUITS

Online Exhibition Opening on October 5 at 6 p.m.
The exhibition will be open until October 8.

This year, the City of Women festival has given special attention to the porosity between the archive and the wider space where an exposition of archive material wishes to shed light on the establishment of the performative scene and practices that were presented in the festival history. The first in line of events aimed at revitalizing the archive will seek the lines of flight and the genealogies of different directions and phenomena, as well as notate individual art practices with an emphasis on the chosen performative artists who have collaborated with the City of Women and will be presented to the foreign professional public. The event will span several days and include its online exhibition of chosen video materials by chosen performative artists and their productions in collaboration with the Network Museum, available at: http://mrezni-muzej.mg-lj.si/

ARTISTS: Miljana Babić, Uršula Cetinski, Maja Delak, Leja Jurišić, Barbara Kapelj, Mala Kline, Kolektiv Tatovi podob, Bara Kolenc, Ema Kugler, Barbara Kukovec, Tanja Lazetić, Nina Meško,  Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Sinja Ožbolt,  Jelena Rusjan, Simona Semenič, Katarina Stegnar, Irena Tomažin, Tina Valentan, Lana Zdravković (Kitch), Nataša Živković.

Guided tours available: October 6–8, 3 p.m.; 3.30 p.m.; 4 p.m.

Tickets: 10 EUR, 7 EUR (študentje, upokojenci)

MUSICA FEMINA

Musica Femina is a two‑year project of cooperation between four international partners who share their views on gender equality in the field of culture and art. By 2020, they will carry out various activities across various local environments, highlighting the creativity of women in music, providing female artists with the possibility of new projects and transnational mobility, proposing discourse programmes, and implementing structural changes in the field of equality in the music industry.

Opening address and presentation of the Musica Femina exhibition in Vienna: Irene Suchy (maezenatentum.at, Vienna).

Presentation of partners and the discussion on questions of women in music in local contexts: Bettina Wackernagell (Heroines of Sound, Berlin), Samu Gryllus (Gryllus Kft, Budapest), Nina Dragičević, Teja Reba (Mesto žensk, Ljubljana).

Admission free.

Snježana Premuš: PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS 2

Second part of the choreo‑social project Physical manifestations 2 focuses on the approaches, methods and modules that perceive somatic practice as a system for the revitalization of the social body. Between September 24^th and 28^th, a laboratory and a public installation will occur, entitled Every Now is a Time, a Place. (more…)