All My Independent Women (AMIW) teve desde o seu ínicio uma relação simbiótica com a literatura, sua companheira de armas, e recentemente convidou cerca de 40 artistas (e não só) a fazerem parte de uma leitura coletiva das Novas Cartas Portuguesas (Barreno, Horta, Velho da Costa, 1972) na busca de novas possibilidades de subjectivação. Desse empenho colectivo nasceu a quinta edição: AMIW 2010, na Casa da Esquina em Coimbra. O projecto, tal como o livro NCP, tomou como seu o caminho a paixão, paixão que era, em si mesma, objecto e execício, porque, tal como as 3 Marias alegaram, o objecto da paixão é apenas pretexto, para definir o nosso diálogo com o resto.
Com: André Alves, Filipa Alves, Miguel Bonneville, Ele Carpenter, Lisa Bolyos, Carla Cruz, Mónica Faria, Laura García and Said Dokins, Projecto Gentileza, Alice Geirinhas, Stefanie Grünangerl, Risk Hazekamp, Nina Hochtl, Anna Jonsson, Rudolfine Lackner, Roberta Lima, Cristina Mateus, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Rita Rainho, Flávio Rodrigues, Suzanne van Rossenberg, Stefanie Seibold, Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa and Sameiro Oliveira Martins, Evelin Stermitz, Lenka Vráblíková, Angela Wiedermann, e Yan María Yaoyólotl
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Installation view @ VBKÖ, photo Carla Cruz
EN: AMIW@VBKÖ – Or Rather, What Can Words Do? / Oder vielmehr, was können Wörter tun?
Upon the invitation of the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), for the first time the international network of feminist artists All My Independent Women (AMIW) from Portugal will host an exhibition in Austria.
AMIW was initiated in 2005 by the artist Carla Cruz to expound the question of gender and to question power relations in the arts. It wants to affirm itself as a political platform; to let go of the desire of belonging to a discriminatory art world in an attempt to figure out new ways of giving account of hu’wo’man art production.
At the VBKÖ AMIW asks together with the ‘3 Marias’ (Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa): “Sisters. What can [art] do? Rather, what can words do?” AMIW thus refers to the conscious "New Portuguese Letters" that addressed the age-old oppression of Portuguese woman and provoked, in 1972, during the Salazar/Caetano dictatorship, the biggest literary scandal of Portugal.
The exhibition shows works by the artists André Alves, Ele Carpenter, Miguel Bonneville, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa and Sameiro Oliveira Martins, Mónica Faria, Laura García and Said Dokins, Projecto Gentileza, Alice Geirinhas, Risk Hazekamp, Anna Jonsson, Roberta Lima, Cristina Mateus, Ana Pérez Quiroga, Rita Rainho, Flávio Rodrigues, Suzanne van Rossenberg, Stefanie Seibold, Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Evelin Stermitz, Lenka Vráblíková, and Yan María Yaoyólotl.
The exhibitors take passion as excuse for engaging the world. At the core of their works they intends to question how the desire for visibility can be transmuted into a different experience one of equality and accountability as to evoke a feminist practices that functions as a ‘counter-hegemonic intervention’ in the arts in particular and in society in general?
Radio Interview Orange 94.0 with Carla Cruz and Nina Höchtl - in english.
Installation view, Video Lounge @ VBKÖ, photo Carla Cruz
Installation view, Video Lounge @ VBKÖ, photo Carla Cruz
Installation view, God's Names by Alice geirinhas @ VBKÖ, photo Carla Cruz
Installation view, Meta_Body @ VBKÖ, photo Carla Cruz
MORE PICTURES HERE
Projecto Gentileza, Biting Song @ VBKÖ, photo Carla Cruz
Event: The Embroidered Digital Commons @ VBKÖ, photo Carla Cruz
Article @ Augustin newspaper by Rhea Krcmárová
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Article @ an.schlaege by Leonie Kapfer