an invitation
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…
Doolally (working title)
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…
ferry trips and walks.
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…
Places we gather
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…
standing here
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…
inhaling light
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…
Two texts. Ananya Patel
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…
We meet and discuss with lines themes and colours
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.
Water Water
‘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…
London – lunchtime Dec 24, 2020
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…
Meeting Memories – Luisa Obkircher, Dani Obkircher, Petra Opitz
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…
performance by Anuradha Upadhyaya
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…
voices from the courtyard
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…
Launching BAAN WOMANIFESTO
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…
Guangzhou exhibition description from Cai Qiaoling
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…
The Frustrations of a Feminist Statistician who believes in Unicorns
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,…
Moments + differences at kokgai café
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…
Womanifesto in Guangzhou
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…
Womanifesto Guangzhou exhibition description by Jasphy Zheng
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…
On February 27, 2022
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…
Rashmimala makes kosambari.
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…
our gathering day. 20.12.20
at Varsha’s studio in Baroda
Meeting Memories – Lea Mattenklotz, Gabriela Vasquez-Pacheco, Karla Sachse
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…
gathering. 19.12.20
… at Phaptawan’s studio in Sydney
Unspoken. 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,…
Kapacities
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…
Objects and Invisible emotions. Urna Sinha
“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…
meeting memories
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…
from Karla’s table….
Karla Sachse, Susanne Dobrovoda, Ann Noel
Meeting Memories – Susanne Dobrovoda, Ann Noël, Karla Sachse
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…
Daughter to her Mother – performance by Mrudula
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…
