Das Goldene Buch
Exhibition Details:
"The Golden Book" is the result of the essentially fragmented identities of women* who appear as a whole in official records such as "worker, friend, lover, active politician, artist, housewife, mother", etc. With great effort, we have to keep these subdivisions separate, but when this fails, something new emerges from the chaos of formlessness: The Golden Book! To explore this fragmentation, the participants developed an idea for a photocopy magazine in each workshop. The final zine, 'The Golden Book' is formed by the collective efforts of many women, addressing professional, personal, and social aspects of identity. The project culminates in a celebratory final event with art, performances, and discussions, showcasing the documented workshop journey and the final zine publication. The Golden Book is a cultural project funded by SHIFT, Basis Kultur Wien and organized by Fabrikraum Kultur und Kunstverein.
Featuring:
born in Graz (1981), raised in Upper Austria and based, besides travelling, in Vienna (A), graduated from the Vienna Art School with a diploma in art, focusing on sculpture and spatial practice and completed a Master’s degree in Media Art (Digital Art) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She works across a wide range of topics, media and often in collaboration, with an artistic focus on the fluid (poetic and political) in-between space and the encounter of diverse (non-human) phenomena. Anna Watzinger has presented her work in numerous exhibition spaces and places in Vienna and as well as internationally, including artist-in-residency programs abroad. She has been an active member of various art collectives and is currently a board member of Mz*Baltazar’s Laboratory. In this role, she regularly organizes and curates exhibitions and workshops and teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with a focus on data protection and AI.
Berenice Pahl, born in the 1970th in Munich, studied acting, directing, fine arts and education in the arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna. After several years as a freelance actress and director, she founded the artist community FREIGEHEGE in 2004 with Peter Hirsch. In 2017/18 she went with him and their kids to New York, where she pursued her artistic-scientific research on laughter and humor in the context of feminisms. She works as a writer, lecturer, curator, and artist with a focus on performance art and humor as tactics against intersectional discrimination in transdisciplinary fields.
Deniz Güvensoy is an artist, curator, and cultural researcher. She received her Doctorate in Fine Arts degree from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and her Doctorate of Philosophy Degree from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In her artistic practice, she employs various techniques such as performance, painting, collage, photography, digital printing, and installation. Her research often addresses migration, border theory and performativity. In her curatorial approach she brings together the topics of migration, collective practices, participatory and socially engaged art, and intersectional feminism.
Mag. Jelena Micić, MA Born 1986 in Knjaževac, Serbia. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2020), Textual sculpture class (Heimo Zobernig).
MA in Philosophy (2012) and Graduated philologist of Scandinavian languages (2010) University of Belgrade. PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Founder of the informal group UMETNIK* and feminist collective I KNOW I CARE. Artistic director of WIENWOCHE.
Interdisciplinary artist, DJ and community organiser QUEER BLACK LOUD PROUD