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6.11.07

24-27 septembrie

La lucru... Spaţii libere temporare– Reni Hofmüller

Spatii eliberate temporar de Reni- interventie in oraş.

Poliphonic Orchestra- performance.

Aproprierea ca tehnică artistică cu o bază politică – prezentare

Locuri importante pentru o istorie a femeilor.

Discuţiile, prezentările si performance-rile care au avut loc în decursul celor patru zile sub titlul „La lucru... Spaţii libere temporare” au avut subiecte ca: nevoia creării unor spaţii eliberate de ideologia profitului, importanţa unei atitudini conştiente de semnificaţia politică a gesturilor de fiecare zi, relaţia dintre gen şi tehnologie, femeile ca producătoare de conţinut în domeniul culturii şi tehnologiei, etc. Conţinuturile discuţiilor nu au fost prestabilite, acestea hotărându-se împreună cu participantele/participanţii în cadrul unei situaţii non –ierarhice, într-o atmosferă de lucru democratică. Fotografiile de documentare făcute în timpul acestor discuţii si a situaţiilor de lucru care s-au creat au fost folosite apoi pentru o apropriere simbolică a spaţiului oraşului, a unor locuri din Bucureşti care au o importanţă pentru o istorie alternativă a femeilor.

Un alt fel de a arăta necesitatea unei aproprieri a spaţiului oraşului, care e tot mai puţin al fiecăruia dintre noi, a fost intervenţia Spaţii eliberate temporar de Reni, unde o stradă cu vitrine încă goale din zona Lipscani (zona centrală în Bucureşti, aflată în plin proces de gentrificare) a fost marcată, pentru un răstimp foarte scurt, ca fiind un loc posibil pentru acţiuni, un loc deschis, cu adevărat public, un loc care propune ca o ipoteză posibilitatea de fi mai creativi şi mai liberi.

Performance-ul Poliphonic Orchestra a implicat muzicieni şi persoane care nu au nici o legătură cu muzica într-o „orchestră” care a creat un spaţiu democratic în care oameni care nu se cunosc lucrează împreună şi în care vocea fiecăruia e auzită.

Reni Hofmüller este artistă, muziciană, compozitoare şi activistă în domeniul folosirii noilor medii, tehnologiei şi a însemnătăţii politice a acestora. Reni Hofmüller trăieşte şi lucrează în Graz.

24th-27th of September

At work... Temporary free spaces – Reni Hofmüller

Spaces temporarily freed by Reni- street intervention.

Poliphonic Orchestra- performance.

Appropriation as an artistic practice with political background – presentation

Important places for a history of women.

The discussions, presentations and performances that took place over four days included topics such as: the necessity to create some spaces free of the ideology of the profit, the importance of an attitude aware of the political significance of everyday gestures, the relation between gender and technology, the role of free software and open source in promoting the freedom of information, women as content producers in the field of culture and technology, etc. The contents of the discussions were not established in advance but they were decided together with the participants in a democratic, non- hierarchical situation.

The photo documentation realized during these discussions were used for a symbolical appropriation of the space of the city, of locations in Bucharest that have an importance for the alternative history of women.

Another way of showing the necessity of the appropriation of the public space, which belongs less and less to each of us was the street intervention Spaces temporarily freed by Reni. During these intervention a street with still empty window shops from Lipscani area (a central area of Bucharest in the process of gentrification) was marked for a vey short time as a possible space for action, an open place, truly public, a space that proposes as a hypothesis the possibility of being more creative and free.

The performance Poliphonic Orchestra involved musiciens and people who have nothing to do with music in an „orchestra” that created a democratic space in which people who don’t know each other are working together and the each separate voice can be heard.

Reni Hofmüller, based in Graz is an artist, musician, composer, performer, organizer and activist in the fields of (new) media technology usage and of their political importance in general, engaged in the development of contemporary art and convinced that thinking makes a difference.

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Appropriation as an artistic practice with political background – presentation


Important places for a history of women.


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Aug 28, 2007 5:07 PM



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Dear Reni,

Here there are a few ideas for places relevant for an alterative history of women. We hope you would find them interesting for you to use them for your virtual appropriations of space. Let us know what do you think:

  1. The University for Political Sciences where the first gender studies department in Romania was founded in 1998.
  2. The starting point for Gay Pride march in Bucharest, which was at its third edition this year and which always takes a lot of courage for its participants in the condition in which the big majority of Romanian society is strongly homophobic (it's a lot to talk about here, but we could do this when we meet).
  3. AnA Centre for Feminist Analysis is the first organization that in the end of nineties publicly declared a feminist position.
  4. A high school in Bucharest where in 2004 a girl called Roxana Iosif publicly declared in her graduation discourse (which is usually some formal appraisal of the school and teachers) the fact that the school system is constructed on unfairness, cheating and lies. Her courageous discourse had a great impact in the media at that time, leading to discussions about the problems of the educational system.
  5. The headquarters of ACCEPT Association the first and most important organization that fights for LGBT rights.
  6. An informal (and illegal :) pub called Punkoteca where the women who organize ladyfest in Romania are having their meetings.
  7. A building that used to be called The Women House and that used to belong between the two world wars to the women movement associations.
  8. A building called Ateneu, where important discourses of the first Romanian feminists from the beginning of XXth century where held.

Kisses from us 3!

Maria, Rodica, Anca