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This section highlights projects, websites, publications and other works within the realm of "women in music" using varied media such as video, visual art, print and sound. If you have any projects for inclusion, please get in touch.
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Ursula Mayer "Acoustic Mirror" (2004)
Video Installation (9 min)
For women, the punk rock movement of the 1970's and 1980's enabled access to a subculture which transcended established roles and sexual mores. In particular, female performers began to adopt both a new masculinity and a confrontational glamor.
For the installation "Acoustic Mirror" different pairings of a singer and guitar player are staged in a mirrored room to perform the song "Come Again" from the English new-wave band Au Pairs. The Au Pairs were able to use their mixed line-up to highlight gender topics in their songs, with lyrics celebrating female sexuality and the struggles between the sexes.
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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, "Sometimes you fight for the world, sometimes you fight for yourself" (2004)
Video, 5 min
Pauline and Renate's video "Sometimes you fight for the world, sometimes you fight for yourself," references the film work of Jack Smith in a queer appropriation of gender and the exotic. The video stars an androgynous duo miming the words to "Her Story" from the new-wave band Flying Lizards as the lyrics scroll past at the bottom of the screen. It is set amongst the foliage of a 19th century botanical garden in a commentary on colonialism with it's obsession of the exotic, male/female coding and its focus on money and desire.
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BORN TO BE A STAR, Exhibit
Künstlerhaus, Vienna Austria, 25. June 2004 - 15. August 2004
Born to Be a Star was an exhibiton exploring the ambivalence of stardom, performative identity structures and the backstage within the framework of female stars in music. Enveloping the entire Kunstlerhaus in Vienna plus the pedestrian underpass outside with live acts, projections, sound works and installations. |
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ANDREA THAL, Project Series
Various Places, Zurich Switzerland, since 01. October 2004
Over the past few years Andrea Thal has amassed an impressive collection of music, with a special concentration on female independent musicians from the 1970's and 1980's Since October 2004 she has instigated a series of installations in which she invites a contemporary European female led band to interpret a chosen song from a female group of the early punk era. The song is then performed at a one-off live show.
In conjunction with each installation Thal publishes a newspaper edition featuring interviews and commentary from the original band members.
So far the series has included the following pairings: X-Ray Spex & Kunst; Unknown Gender & Mosh-Mosh; Delta 5 & mate; Bush Tetras & Namusoke; Mother's Ruin & G. Rizo.
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HER NOISE, Project Series
London UK, November 2005
Her Noise explores a large scope of collaborative methods and individual practices by women artists as it brings together installation work, video production, sound art, modern composition, laptop electronica and online sound communities to map out the network that draws such disparate artists together.
The project consisted of a national touring exhibition starting at the South London Gallery in November 2005, and included a catalogue, a programme of live events and educational activities, a CD compilation and an expanded website. |
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LOST AND FOUND, Exhibit
Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik, Zürich
11. May 2007 - 15. July 2007
Lost & Found looks at the reception of cultural productions and with it the possibilities of cultural self-empowerment which arise out of an engagement with a song, a work, an individual's life plan or the appropriation of mainstream - featuring works by Pauline Boudry, Anna McCarthy, Stella Glitter, Melissa Gordon, Annette Kelm, Jutta Koether, Didi Neidhart, Sabine Reinfeld, Aurora Reinhard, Dimitrina Sevova, Andrea Thal, and Anne-Käthi-Wehrli. Organized by Alice Cantaluppi, Isa Reiss and Anna Vosswinkel.
11. May Vernissage
17. May Judith Halberstam lecture on alternative life and gender visions in various current animation films for children, a genre she calls pixarvolt.
26. May International archive meeting with the Women in Punk Archive (ed. Nicole Emmenegger), K-Set Archive (ed. Karo Cerbaro), AKW’s Fanzine Archive (ed. Anne-Käthi Wehrli), The Riot Project – A Riot Grrrl Primer (ed. Anne-Marie Payne and Passenger Books), and grrrlzines.net (ed. Elke Zobl and Haydee Jimenez).
21. June Elke aus dem Moore will guide through and comment on the film programme ResiDance.
6./7. July Symposium "What’s that got to do with me?" addressing pop and survival, survival with pop, the debate about the economisation of niches and the state of DIY today. Organized by the editors of the zine Elend und Vergeltung and Kommerz contributors include Martin Büsser, Mercedes Bunz and Sonja Eismann.
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Jenny Woolworth Women in Punk Mixtape
The Jenny Woolworth Women in Punk mixtape cd was created as part of the Lost and Found exhibition in the Shedhalle gallery in Züirch in May 2007. The edition was limited to 100 copies on CD.
Here's the tracklist:
01+02 Manisch Depressiv - Gott ist tot / Würde Würde Würde sein / Aber wir wissen / Aufstehen / Was ist los mit Amerika / Zeitmaschine / Existieren sie Nicht / Es gibt sie nicht / Die Maschine / Gott ist tot
03 As Mercenarias - Oh Oh
04 Avengers - Thin White Line
05 Dog Faced Hermans - Too Much for the Red Ticker
06 Kitchen And The Plastic Spoons - Happy Funeral
07 Snatch - Joey
08 Grylurnar - Sisi
09 Carambolage - City Großmarkt
10 The Vyllies - Purple Gorilla
11 The Plastics - Robot
12 Hermine - La valse de 99 ans
13 Inflatable Boy Clams - Marin
14 Belaboris - Odotus
15 Dolly Mixture - How Come You’re Such a Hit with
the Boys, Jane?
16 Look Blue Go Purple - Grace
17 Neonbabies - Blauen Augen
18 Bloods - Blue Chevrolet
19 Unknown Gender - Real/Unreal
20 Dangerous Birds - Smile on your Face
21 Scrawl - Clock Song (Go Girl Go)
22 Grylurnar - Trollathvadur |
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