"Five years after the birth of my feminist consciousness, I still have to question every assumption, every reaction I have in order to examine them for signs of preconditioning. (...) I thought serious artists had to have big, professional-looking spaces. I found women in corners of men's studios, in bedrooms and children's rooms, even in kitchens, working away. I thought important art was large. I found women working small, both out of inclination and necessity."
(Lucy Lippard, The Pink Glass Swan)
Where do we/you work - in a kitchen, factory, shop, studio, office, on a spaceship, stage, or in a feminist festival? How do we work, for whom and for what? What is work, its historical, economic, political and aesthetic process? For which society do we work? Who has the information and the answers? Could an artist be a model worker, a woman a model citizen?
Three women investigate the City of Women, listing the ingredients, exchanging recipes. They put into practice one or two things they have learnt in their own practice and life as artists, non-artist, workers and organisers of Digitales working days in Brussels and in other 'feminist cultural events' elsewhere.
Their work has started by squatting the programme. They set up their workstation. Their workbench is mobile. They carry their digital tools and a non-multiple choice questionnaire. They invite you to share their utensils, work with their tools. They ask questions. They attempt to reveal the process of the event, deconstruct a reality to inspire another approach the meaning of women's politics. Look for them, don't miss them.
