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This site is archived since 01/01/2011. You can continue to browse interviews, past events, icons and tags added between 2006 and 2010.

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Lynda Benglis, Female Sensibility, 1974

Lynda Benglis, Female Sensibility, 1974

To watch is to be implicated and to be watched is to perform.
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Interview

We will get to know the machine and we will understand

We will get to know the machine and we will understand

Juliane De Moerlooze is a Brussels based computer scientist, feminist and Linux user of the first hour. (more…)

Interview

Kore Press and Literary Activism: an interview with Lisa Bowden

Kore Press and Literary Activism: an interview with Lisa Bowden

Lisa Bowden, co-founder, poet and book designer talks about literary activism à la Kore-style, and what that entails in practice. (more…)

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Handbaked Plates

Plates made during a series of workshops hosted by Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen. Participants were from the Middlefield's Womens Group and Whitespace. (2007)

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Female Icons Impersonators

Carin as NorahDunja as Princess MononokeDonna as GermaineMarta as OpheliaAudrey as SimoneCeline as Aletta and Kathrin as Anna

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Female Icons Festoons

Female Icons Festoons

Do you want to decoratively liven up your house and recycle old magazines at the same time? Make your own Female Icons Festoon!
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Living Room Lecture

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Kim De Vries
Originally broadcast from Rotterdam on Wednesday, January 9 2008 @ 14:00

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Christine Wilks about IntraVenus


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IntraVenus

Christine Wilks

Geuzennamen

A Dutch term for a negative or derogatory name appropriated and reclaimed as a positive label of empowerment. Add Geuzennaam...