Irena Z. Tomažin:
If Anything, Being Womanly Means Being On The Side Of The Weak
Kaja Draksler:
About Identity, Being in Shape, Groups, Gender and Quotas
Nina Dragičević:
Feminism Isn’t About Hating Men, It’s Pure Criticism Of Inequality
Maja Osojnik:
Since When Is Being Female Considered A Genre?
In recent years, City of Women festival has been involved in international project that present and support the work of women composers, improvisers and sound artists. Musica Femina is an international project in which, in addition to the City of Women, German Heroines of Sound and Arhiv Frau und Musik, the Hungarian Gryllus Kft and the Austrian maezenatentum.at also participate.
The exhibition features the portraits of Austrian and Austria-based women composers, excerpts from their compositions and overviews of their oeuvres, ranging from film music to jazz, from contemporary music to experimental and electronic sounds. The Ljubljana exhibition is a fragment of Musica Femina – From Shadow to Light, a larger exhibition, curated by Irene Suchy in Clarisse Maylunas, which presented a historic overview of women composers in Schönbrunn, Vienna, in 2018.
The Ljubljana edition of the exhibition will also include Slovenian artists: composer, sound artist, poet, critic, theoretician and writer Nina Dragičević, pianist, composer and improviser Kaja Draksler, voice artist, improviser, dancer and performer Irena Z. Tomažin and recorder player, electronic musician, vocalist, composer and improviser Maja Osojnik. The author of the interviews is Tomaž Grom. The interviews are part of collaboration between Centralala and City of Women.
The opening of exhibition is on 4th of October at 20.00 in Stara elektrarna. The exhibition will be on view until October 13. On the same day, the festival hosts the famous Berlin improviser electro-acoustic trio Contagious, formed by Andrea Neumann on inside piano and mixing board, Sabine Ercklentz on trumpet and electronics and Mieko Suzuki on turntables and electronics. You can learn more about the exhibition here, and more about the festival here.
