I came across this blog about toilets.
/LN
fredag 16 april 2010
onsdag 10 mars 2010
Dotterbolaget
Slowly it has dawned on me…My bookshelf and bedside table are filling up with books by people that I think have something in common with X-front. I’ve been trying to figure out what it is that I appreciate about them.
They call themselves Serienätverket Dotterbolaget.
The connections that I’ve found so far is an interest in: body fluids, constructive criticism, the strength you can find in a collective, starting off in one’s one life, closeness between one’s own creation and a readiness to take in what others have done, an in between-ness of art in galleries and production that can easily be distributed in masses, hacking the everyday and making interventions.
A couple of quotes from an article with the headline "Vassa pennor & raka rör" in Sydsvenskan Sunday 7th March to rest in (unfortunately the article is not to be found online):
“Att visa sina svagheter är fint, konstaterar de.”
“Inte så mycket vi mot dom som vi för oss själva.
- Det känns lite som att man har ett stort gäng i ryggen, någon man kan kalla på om någon är dum mot en.”
“En bra grej är att det är så lätt att bli inspirerad när någon talar utifrån sig själv.”
“Och att vi förväntar oss att någon vill höra”
Look into:
http://fulheten.se
http://saraelgeholm.blogspot.com/
http://karincasimirlindholm.blogspot.com/
http://hejasara.blogspot.com/
http://rikedomen.se/
/å
They call themselves Serienätverket Dotterbolaget.
The connections that I’ve found so far is an interest in: body fluids, constructive criticism, the strength you can find in a collective, starting off in one’s one life, closeness between one’s own creation and a readiness to take in what others have done, an in between-ness of art in galleries and production that can easily be distributed in masses, hacking the everyday and making interventions.
A couple of quotes from an article with the headline "Vassa pennor & raka rör" in Sydsvenskan Sunday 7th March to rest in (unfortunately the article is not to be found online):
“Att visa sina svagheter är fint, konstaterar de.”
“Inte så mycket vi mot dom som vi för oss själva.
- Det känns lite som att man har ett stort gäng i ryggen, någon man kan kalla på om någon är dum mot en.”
“En bra grej är att det är så lätt att bli inspirerad när någon talar utifrån sig själv.”
“Och att vi förväntar oss att någon vill höra”
Look into:
http://fulheten.se
http://saraelgeholm.blogspot.com/
http://karincasimirlindholm.blogspot.com/
http://hejasara.blogspot.com/
http://rikedomen.se/
/å
onsdag 3 mars 2010
it's certainly in the air
when shared parental leave insurance is being discussed in swedish politics "women standing up to pee" pops up in one of the comments to a TT-article. so, a conclusion can be drawn that our project is out there in the minds of people, in the air, in the discourse, in the practice even. although it's a pity the commentator has such a wicked mind...
ior wrote:
Jag tycker att man ska kvotera graviditeten, det är orättvist att män slipper göra det. Orättvist att de får stå och kissa också.. kan man straffskatta det på något sätt? Där har ni en bra ide, straffskatta männen..för allt som kvinnor inte kan göra..Familjer är svaga och kan inte ta egna beslut, barn bör växa upp på instution med kvoterad mängd kvinnor, män, svarta,vita och grå. Det är rättvist. Staten vet alltid bäst, heja sovjet..
måndag 15 februari 2010
Airing X-front
The radio show 'Verkligheten' - 'Reality' - on Swedish Radio called out for some visions on peeing. And then called å "revolutionary". Listen for yourself.
onsdag 2 september 2009
humour
i can hardly stop laughing.
what has pussypants got to do with humour?
well, i still don’t know after reading sandra engström’s text in nöjesguiden. she’s moaning about an issue of the magazine bang focusing on humour.
there’s nothing about pussypants in that issue of bang. however, the writer seems to make a link: “…hur kommer det sig att det inte finns särskilt många roliga komiker här i Sverige? Vad är det för fel på humorn i Sverige? Det hade varit en intressantare artikel än vilket tröttsamt dravel om fittbyxor som helst.”
or am i crying?
/å
what has pussypants got to do with humour?
well, i still don’t know after reading sandra engström’s text in nöjesguiden. she’s moaning about an issue of the magazine bang focusing on humour.
there’s nothing about pussypants in that issue of bang. however, the writer seems to make a link: “…hur kommer det sig att det inte finns särskilt många roliga komiker här i Sverige? Vad är det för fel på humorn i Sverige? Det hade varit en intressantare artikel än vilket tröttsamt dravel om fittbyxor som helst.”
or am i crying?
/å
fredag 7 augusti 2009
flogging for wearing trousers?
the fight goes on to be able to wear whatever you want to. lubna hussein in sudan might be facing flogging for wearing trousers. 40 lashes. in the summer of 2009.
according to an article in the guardian by roy greenslade on july 30th Lubna Hussein told a court in Khartoum the day before "that she wants to resign from her UN job, which grants her immunity from prosecution, in order to challenge the law on female dress."
the bbc reports: "She says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law which forbids indecent clothing.
according to an article in the guardian by roy greenslade on july 30th Lubna Hussein told a court in Khartoum the day before "that she wants to resign from her UN job, which grants her immunity from prosecution, in order to challenge the law on female dress."
the bbc reports: "She says she has done nothing wrong under Sharia law, but could fall foul of a paragraph in Sudanese criminal law which forbids indecent clothing.
"I want to change this law, because hitting is not human, and also it does not match with Sharia law," she told the BBC.
"The BBC's James Copnall in Khartoum says Ms Hussein is determined to generate as much publicity as she can."
She's been using her network to invite people to attend the trial, to get publicity, support and courage.
i’m thinking: "freedom from fear", as burmese aung san suu kyi has stated. ms hussein's situation also resonates with what another nobel peace price laureat, the iranian lawyer and feminist shirin ebadi, writes in her memoir "iran awakening": 'i was putting the law itself on trial'.
lördag 6 juni 2009
X-front crew in Utrecht
Part of the X-front crew is gathered in Utrecht for the 7th Feminist European Research Conference during the first days of June.
The overall theme for the conference is 'Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics'. The organisers are yet and again emphasising that at the Gender Studies Department at Utrecht University they have a special interest in the combination of art and knowledge production in the sense that art is a way of imagining new futures which have political implications. Or, as they put it in the conference programme: "Through the combination of art and scholarship, new questions and new styles of knowledge production could arise."
This is the context where X-front has an installation/workshop in the art room and also has a panel in the scientific programme (yes, the organisers make that distinction although they emphasise a combination of the two).
The overall theme for the conference is 'Gendered Cultures at the Crossroads of Imagination, Knowledge and Politics'. The organisers are yet and again emphasising that at the Gender Studies Department at Utrecht University they have a special interest in the combination of art and knowledge production in the sense that art is a way of imagining new futures which have political implications. Or, as they put it in the conference programme: "Through the combination of art and scholarship, new questions and new styles of knowledge production could arise."
This is the context where X-front has an installation/workshop in the art room and also has a panel in the scientific programme (yes, the organisers make that distinction although they emphasise a combination of the two).
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