Womanifesto 2020
Together with my 91 year old mother – who is living with vascular dementia- we make clay and plasticine models of things. Things informed by colour, smells, touch and time spent together… time seized between periods of pandemic lockdown. This work is ongoing and reliant…
… at Phaptawan’s studio in Sydney
(Un)spoken The project starts with a conversation between Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Shuxia Chen. They ask each other questions in their common language, English; however, each chooses to answer the question in whichever language they feel like using to respond – which could be English,…
As a surprise came the opportunity to show a part of our works at the Museum of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art. Thanks to Varsha Nair and the curator Biljana Ciric as well as the very helpful staff of the museum. As part of…
She found herself standing there. She was asked to wait, but had wandered ….She found herself standing there, where labyrinthian alleys and long shadows led her, to the remains of a once protected courtyard Amongst the rubble stood a date-palm defiantly bearing fruit, and in…
Amerbach Studios is a dream for everybody to produce and work together. Even the Kitchen is like a Beehive and the Video and Audiostudio are grant. The famous and witty Band Les Reines Prochaines, Nicole Boillat, Chris Regn and a lot of artists and Bands…
Biljana Ciric, the curator of the exhibition invited individuals who visited the exhibition in Guangzhou to write and a share a description: Project #1: Repetition as a gesture towards deep listening Thinking and practicing how we could allow someone distant and not physically present to encounter…
Dear friends of KAP, we proudly present the KAP calendar 2021 to print at home in A3 or 71% reduced to A4. RZ_KAP_Nr33_Kalender_2021 The drawings are collaborations on the same sheets by Nicole Boillat, Lena Eriksson, Martina Gmür, Martina Henzi, Chris Hunter, Jim Osthaarchic and…
Paying attention to breath Paying attention to other species breathing Breath carries the essence of life. We inhale oxygen and exhale CO2. Our breathing is closely connected with the breathing of woody perennial plants like trees and their breathing is directly connected with the air…
at Varsha’s studio in Baroda
In the courtyard of my studio located in an industrial area of the city, 7 women arrived with texts of their choice – written by themselves or other women – short stories, poems, statistics even, and shared. The overall theme was women’s invisible labour, and…
Since 2005 we draw together and produce a calendar every year. We do not judge till we elect the 12+2 subjects It is just the most reliable Situation of the year. You do not have to be brilliant, it is just perfectly brilliant.
I have settled down again in Udonthani, my hometown, after 45 years of being away, after graduating from art school and living in Bangkok for several years I moved to Sisaket and then to Ubonratchathani. I have done so many things to make a living…
As Womanifesto is far away in time and space now – although well preserved digitally – the longing for art-related real gathering was and is strong in a situation of a virus-forced social distancing to save lives. Although Berlin became a crowned spot when…
Amruta Patel. There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work[1]. There are many studies, texts and discussions that have explored women and their position in the workplace. We know, for example,…
My friend Petra retired recently and has now much more capacity for artistic creativity. So she asked to be involved in one or the other art project. Immediately she got the invitation for Womanifesto Gathering 2020 and was slightly shocked by the dimension of the…
Biljana Ciric, the curator of the exhibition invited individuals who visited the exhibition in Guangzhou to write and a share a description: Project #1: Repetition as a gesture towards deep listening Thinking and practicing how we could allow someone distant and not physically present to encounter…
Inspired by Helen Grace who initiated a workshop model which included ferry trips/walks for a collaborated project, Phaptawan invited three other artists in Sydney; Helen Grace; Sue Pedley and Virginia Hilyard to engage the excursion workshop, each with candidate of their own choices to conducted…
Gatherings at Guangzhou Triennial, March – May 2021 at Art Museum, Guangzhou Academy of Art. Curated by Biljana Ciric The first Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial Repetition as a gesture towards deep listening[i] Conceived by: Biljana Ciric Collaborators Womanifesto and The Factory Contemporary Art Centre Duration of…
‘Water Water’ is the result of an ongoing collaboration between a group of International artists who are part of the Womanifesto collective. This film consists of five individual films addressing the theme of water that combine to reflect on a complex universal concern this century at the time…
Karla Sachse, Susanne Dobrovoda, Ann Noel
in a session led by Virginia Hilyard, we met to create A Vocal Montage – with the spirit of the Dadaists – we cut-up scripts that we read to each other across zoom. Participating were: Alana Hunt, Anca Dimofte, Ann Noel, *durbahn, Hannah Beilharz, Helen…
Daughter to her Mother is based on conversations with my mother on phone during lockdown. These regular phone calls turned out to be the most intimate moments of exchange between us, mother and daughter. That was the time when my mother opened her heart…
Considering Invisible Labour, I have been thinking about two texts. The first is a book called Flâneuse, which I found in a bookshop in London when I was studying there. Its written by Lauren Elkin, an American scholar who, upon experiencing a semester abroad in…
Gabriela Vasquez-Pacheco is an art-teaching colleague of Karla and mother of two children and Lea Mattenklotz, a former student at Kurt Schwitters School studying art now. Both were enthusiastic to be asked to realise this group project together but also clamped in their life of…
Performative reading of Sara Shagufta’s poem, How Solitary is the Moon for Womanifesto 2020: Gatherings, Voices in the Courtyard, Baroda. December 20, 2020 HOW SOLITARY IS THE MOON The shadow of a cage is too an imprisonment I continue to become the shadow…
“22. Some things do change, however. A membrane can simply rip off your life, like a skin of congealed paint torn off the top of a can. I remember that day very clearly: I had received a phone call. A friend had been in an…
By chance and just in time I met two senior ladies like me, who are dismissed from everyday working life and always interested in new creative activities. Thus, we found together as group of senior ladies, all in good health and so we could agree…
Womanifesto Workshop 2023 February 1-10, 2023 Launching the new setting of BAAN WOMANIFESTO (Womanifesto House), Womanifesto Workshop 2023 is the pilot project on a farm in Kumpawapi, Udonthani, Northeast Thailand. The workshop is organised by Nitaya Uareeworakul, co-founder of Womanifesto since 1997 and now residing…
As a strict lockdown was enforced in London, on Christmas Eve our group met online and shared food together. Some of the members had met for the first time and we all shared our stories of how we have met each other, our friendships, and…
Making of a salad: Kosambari, A healthy and easy to assemble salad made with lentils. This is a typical south Indian salad made from pulses (split legumes) seasoned with grated coconut and mustard seeds. These salads are sometimes eaten as a snack, but usually as…
