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“Could you do for me with your hands…?”

The drawings on the stickers are the visual result of a research on female representation through a survey made on the streets of Rotterdam, where several people were asked to do, using their hands, a symbol of the vagina.

These stickers are only to be pasted and experienced on public toilets. By doing so they become public but at the same time refer to the privacy with which we deal with our own genitalia, the individual vision of the collection, and also to be experienced on a single basis.

My work ACT2

Lately I have been concern with our role as citizens within the collective construction of society, our society – Europe ore more broadly if you will an occidental globalised society. Imbedded and connected by mass media and economic monopolies.

Using art as an interrogative tool to analyse the world we live in collaboration with the audience my work balances between the art world and activism.

Act 2 can be visited on the website
http://www.anti-anti.net/act2/
or the blog:
http://www.takeaction.blogspot.com

Act 2 is a look-a-like political street hand puppet theatre .It is to be placed on public squares and it is meant for participation of the passers-by. Act2 is composed by a wooden box that: when open can be used as frame for the puppet show and holder of the puppets, when closed can be easily rolled through the streets.

«Act 2- do you want to manipulate for a change? » was enacted between October 2002 and July 2003 in Rotterdam and token to Geneva in the occasion of the G8 summit. It was active during the whole war against Iraq issue. Act 2 invites the passer-by to manipulate public and influential political figures, such as Tony Blair or George Bush, whoever is starring on the world political theatre at the moment.

Act 2 invites the participant to control the masters of the world, to play their own narratives or mimic the current ones and by doing so reflecting on their role in society.

Being the first question posed by Act 2 whether they want to be mere spectators or producers of culture, with the decision of stepping into the play or not. Ultimately the provocation is to take action.

I will also take the t-shirts I have made together with my feminist group of artistic intervention: ZOiNA. These t-shirts present different ways of depicting women and the female body by reworking, altering and questioning images from fashion magazines, the result is then printed on the t-shirts by using the technique of stencil graffiti.

It's a poster bearing the words "WE BELONG TO YOU" and the GPL (GNU Public License) and is designed as a simple way to link Open Source to wider issues of the public commons. We have been distributing them in the form of a bundle of posters sent to people in an envelope with a "read me" file which explains how they can be distributed further (ie, displaying in windows, inserting into magazines, etc.).

The posters can also be added to with new content, messages, etc.

The poster is part of a series slateford have been doing, we normally work with software and these are an offshoot, extending some our interest in issues such as the "creative commons" into a more social-poetic form.

Like everything we do, the posters are very cheap and lo-tech.

http://www.slateford.org

http://www.creativecommons.org

The recent postering of public places in Canberra acted as a statement where the derogatory term UNAUSTRALIAN is reclaimed and turned on its head. This action is an example of how public awareness is being created around issues related to the detention of asylum seekers.

For more information regarding Canberra activism look at :

http://www.refugeeaction.org
www.argusonline.com.au

Hello all - not quite sure how this works - but a link to some of the projects i will be bringing along are cactusnetwork.org.uk and weareeverywhere.org
And some spoof newspapers (print only except for the_spun.org i think)

chees for now - i will see what this does and learn more...

tony (cactus)

I am also bringing stencils related to female representation and will be making them on the spot. My idea is to give kind of "how-to" lessons and exchange stencils with others.

The idea is that I can stencil my city with your stencils and you can stencil your city with mine.

Last year Zoina did a project called Urban Body in Linz in collaboration with Transpublic, an artist run space. We graffittied and stenciled areas around beauty centers, sex shops, and clothing shops with images of or text of women taken from magazines.

action in front of a military shop:

action on the main shopping street of Linz:

all packed with my Swap Meet and soft Blanket.

this is my contribution for the swap meet on the balie, how I used my blanket. As a table cloth over which I was cuting some new stencil graffitti, that could be taken away and after sprayed, preferentially on the places requested on the stencil itself, such as Algeciras and tanger, for the series - Clandestino - marroco.