*event title

Vernissage "Rosa feminist fragment posters"

Rosa Fragment
Fragment poster
achive
library





WORK NOTES


Les pistes potentielles: 




Feedback Rosa 21st of February

From their email:


- Well that is not possible within the budget, and the distributor can't be calling the shots?


From Be.Brussels:


- See sheet of sketches and comebacks




We asked ourselves how we would approach the topic of objectification without reproducing harmful or violent images of women being objectified. Our question was who are these posters for and whose experience are they talking about?

It is our opinion that we are past the moment of debating wether women get objectified or not, and our aim with these posters are not to cater to the education of some men who might not yet understand this, but to celebrate the many local feminist movements who have fought against it, be it on a public platform or on a personal level. Every woman we know has felt the creepy belittling and lack of empathy that is objectification and how it undermines you as a person and a being. We therefore dive into this topic focusing on the power of thought, humanity, poetry, philosophy and love that has poured out of the feminist and queer movements, and how Rosa is a center of access to all of this heritage.

Our posters therefore depict a mixture of the experience of being at Rosa, the multitude of voices that is part of their library and archive, and the herstory that represents both past and present. 

If we were to number and summorise them, it would go a little something like this :








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Which language do we write the bottom line? "Fragments from... " ? 



Objectification, 




*APPLICATION INFO

Structure:

Project around the 8th of March with RoSa
Application deadline 5th of Nov

Calendar:

Budget print: 600 € = 200 x 5 posters = 1000 posters + separated colored layers (10 x 10 = 100) for the installation


*Activating the feminist library - rough proposal description to be translated to NL

Our proposal is to create an installation that is visual and interactive, to open up/activate the library's many sections and bring them together, with both an emphasis on collecting illustrative fragments in the archive and library to display the visual heritage of feminist movements, and by showcasing the mixture of languages that represents intersectional feminism in Brussels today through gathering texts with the visitors. 

The installation has two parts, that are presented together. 

Part 1: A window display with a large collection of fragments of visual icons from the RoSa's library and archive of local, feminist herstory. By collecting these visual fragments we want to share an impression of what kind of visual heritage exists from the feminist movements in Belgium and beyond. + what is in RoSa: make a sort of entry door into the collections, an overview on the diversity of the collection (books, posters, documents) and its different contents.
Creating this collection and displaying it to the public is a way to show off the massiveness of the herstory that exsists in this country, using visual language to appeal to all the different language communities at once, backing up the fight for women's right with a message of historic support. We believe that displaying this richness of heritage sends a positive message in a time when many feminist activists might feel a shift in the political climate, and that using the perspective of the last decades will be a way to encourage future engagement in feminist causes. 

Part 2: An interactive installation that uses the principle of the dadaist exercise "cadavre exquis" to collectively write texts using different sentences from the entire library. This will work in the way that every person that enters the library and would like to participate will spin 3 custom made tombola-wheels, one to select a book shelf, one to select which number of book in the shelf, and the last one to select which sentence to pick from said book. Creating a kind of treasure hunt to open up a specific yet random book, the person will then take this sentence and add it to a collective text. Bit by bit the text that is created together forms an eclectic impression across languages and feminisms around the library. The exercise can also be limited to specific shelves to create short texts that are sourced from a specific field. The texts created will then be displayed around the library, as a way to open up all kinds of litterature, from the bold and famous to the unnasuming and forgotten, and be a nod to the many feminist collectives that have helped shape this city and the human rights we live with today. 

Both elements are also selected because they generate something to give back to the archive/library that can be further built upon in the future, and is therefore not a dead end. They are also both suitable for Brussels many languages and types of feminisms, and once created will demand minimal resources to be activated in the library. The installation will also be visible from the street, using RoSa's large, glazed facade as a key element of the display.


Work hours estimate
Details
·       Production hours
§  Visual heritage search (library, archives, posters) 3 x 5h = 15h (+ help from Rosa team) 
§  Visual heritage's scans/pictures cleanup of files and preparation for posters (+help from Rosa 15h. ↤ we would not take this more down as cleaning up of files takes a lot of time, after they are scanned all images need to be adjusted, cropped, edited etcetera.
§  RoSa will do Coordination clearance copyright.

·       Coordination production
·       Installation =  6h 

=  51 hours x 36 euro = 1836

Print estimate
 
Posters (for on-site installation + distribution)
Riso print of 255 posters (85 times 3 different types of poster) = ca 450 euro

Total:
(approximate) 450 + 1836 = 2286

*Just for the record CV

Just for the record is a collective investigating how gender is represented in new media and writing/publishing tools, and how it influences the way history is recorded. Just For The Record is a project initiated in 2015 by Myriam Arseneault-Goulet, Loraine Furter, Sarah Magnan and Mia Melvær, coming from diverse artistic backgrounds like visual art, sculpture, object design and graphic design, and working from several perspective as teaching, solo or collective practice.

The project was created shortly after an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon organised by Loraine Furter in March 2015, which called attention to the need for more gatherings that investigate how to create more diversified contributions to online knowledge platforms.

http://justfortherecord.space/

Selected projects:

2018
November      Presentation for Eriazo, Kasko, Basel, Switzerland
October     Discussion for Tashweesh Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE
June         Speculative design residency, Abattoirs de Bomel, Namur, BE
May         Solo exhibition, Le Casier, Brussels, BE
January        Website for the project Engagement, anti-sexism campaign

2017
Sept.-Dec.        Chanting and recording, event with presentations, performances and 
        workshops, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE
October         Design Marabout, presentation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
October         F-Word, presentations and workshops, Amsterdam, NL
October         Voix de femmes, presentations and workshops, Namur, BE
September        Extra Citizen, participation to Grant Watson’s project How we behave,         Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, BE
May         Wives And Daughters Of: Changing The Narrative On Wikipedia, 
        presentations and workshops, Ladyfest, Maastricht, NL
March        Relocation: Queer and Feminist Archives, presentations, RoSa, 
        Brussels, BE
March         Memory Factory, presentations and workshops, La Bellone, 
        Brussels, BE
March         Installation for the International Women's Day, Muntpunt, Brussels, BE

2016
December         Performative reading, DiVersions, organised by Constant, Brussels, BE
October        Red Links, presentations and workshops, Beursschouwburg, 
        Brussels, BE
June        Bots, robots, cyborgs, presentations and workshops, Muntpunt, 
        Brussels, BE
April        Gender Redirect, performances, presentations and workshops, 
        Amazone and the Student, Brussels, BE
February        Heroines, performances, presentations and workshops, Pianofabriek, 
        Brussels, BE


Question:
Shall we highlight relevant outside-of-jftr-projects? Examples: OSP (graphic design + tool-making) to BAL (collecting grassroots fragments), Myriams sculptures (combining fragments to a whole), Engagement website, feminist publishing from Loraine etc. ? 

Feedback to RoSa



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COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE