Vučić, Vedran: Cultural Prejudices and Obstacles that Prevent Women to Take a Grater Role in Using Technology in Arts

Vučić, Vedran: Cultural Prejudices and Obstacles that Prevent Women to Take a Grater Role in Using Technology in Arts

Title Cultural Prejudices and Obstacles that Prevent Women to Take a Grater Role in Using Technology in Arts
Type Lecture
Date 8 October 2006
Venue Tovarna Rog
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production City of Women
Co-production Tovarna Rog
URL Mesto žensk
Registration number CoW-2006-AKAD-31

Synopsis

 

This paper examines the author's experience in projects in which women should have better access to modern technology. The rigorous prejudices and practises that some women face in schools, the theatre, as well as various visual and performing arts is especially emphasised. This text reveals that due to cultural and other prejudices women are – unless they are encouraged – oppressed and prevented from enjoying equal access to modern technology in the arts, universities, schools and other environments. However, women are – in the author's experience – usually confined to administrative work or branded as carers. Vedran Vučić believes that such is a reflection of the traditional divisions of labour within the patriarchies which still predominate in many a milieu, and that this in turn creates a disbalance in education, science, art and culture, that causes harm to society.

 

 

Source: City of Women

Artist, artistic group

Production

Co-production

Tovarna Rog