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.
One questionnaire for a 6-morning mobile investigation on (feminist) cultural practice as work
(2. - 7. 10., all festival locations)
1. Name, forename
2. Age
3. Place of birth and current geographical location
4. Academic background, if any
5. Number of dependents
6. How would you define your activity/job/profession?
7. How do you introduce yourself to someone?
8. Can you make a living from it? If not, how do you make a living?
9. Do you have a price list/fees?
How are they calculated?
10. Who pays the price/fees (public authorities, institutions, private clients, companies,
audiences, other)? What are the conditions?
11. Do you retain ownership of your work/works once transferred? With what, with
whom?
12. Please, specify the equipment/materials used in your work and their origin.
More generally, what form does this investment take: collective buying, loan, gift, etc?
13. Do you work in group, if so, with whom, why?
14. Other questions, other answers
Cuisine Interne Keuken – Stirring the Pot and Showing the Seams
Mobile investigation on (feminist) cultural practice as work
Laurence Rassel, Marie-Françoise Stewart-Ebel, Wendy Van Wynsberghe; Digitales - ADA / Constant vzw, Brussels (Belgium)
