MFK @ 16 BEAVER
Saturday 11.21.09
We Won! A feminist Utopia
Initiated by Malmoe Free University for Women
CONTENTS:
1. About this Saturday
2. How do we do it?
3. About MFK
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1. About this Saturday
What: Staging a feminist utopia - hands-on!
When: Saturday 11.21.09
Where: 16Beaver Street, 5th Floor
When: 11 am - 5 pm. You need to participate the whole time.
Who: Free and open to all feminists. Limited participants - rsvp is necessary, please send us an email at: info.mfk@gmail.com with your name and number at the latest November 19.
Malmoe Free University for Women (MFK) hereby cordially invites you to take part in a collective staging of a feminist utopia! Let's treat ourselves to a temporary amnesia about the practical aspects of the here and now and instead try to visualize an INTENSE ECSTATIC FUTURE together.
We concentrate on the room we are occupying and within the surrounding walls we imagine no longer being in opposition - no more defenses, no longer the feeling of being two steps behind. We imagine the world as it will be when we have won, the day after the revolution, when patriarchy, capitalism, racism, sexism and their brothers have fallen, and a new world rises from the ashes. We allow ourselves no compromises, going all the way, to the extreme. And from that glorious point in the future we recount our steps back to where we are today, mapping out our path to success. ___________________________________________________
2. How do we do it?: This will be a collective creative process were we will work with practical exercises, lively discussions, personal reflection and writing. Use of the body is obligatory, a hands-on, mapping of the future. If you are not ready to get down and dirty – don’t bother knocking.
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3. About Malmoe Free University for Women – MFK Malmoe Free University for Women (MFK) is an ongoing art project initiated in Sweden in 2006 by artists Lisa Nyberg and Johanna Gustavsson. The goal of MFK is to create a place where art, politics and feminism are brought together and combined, to enable space for creative, intellectual, political dialogue and action. MFK activates alternative kinds of knowledge production and distribution through activities such as workshops, lectures and film screenings. Issues of art, feminism and politics are discussed with a specific focus on how to counter dominant power relations, gender structures and normative thinking. By combining theory and practice MFK explores the meaning of collective action. www.mfkuniversitet.blogspot.com
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16 Beaver Group 16 Beaver Street, 5th fl New York, NY 10004
for directions/subscriptions/info visit: http://www.16beavergroup.org
TRAINS: 4,5 Bowling Green R,W Whitehall 2,3 Wall Street J,M Broad Street 1,9 South Ferry
What: Staging a feminist utopia - hands-on!
When: Saturday 11.21.09
Where: 16Beaver Street, 5th Floor
When: 11 am - 5 pm. You need to participate the whole time.
Who: Free and open to all feminists. Limited participants - rsvp is necessary, please send us an email at: info.mfk@gmail.com with your name and number at the latest November 19.
Malmoe Free University for Women (MFK) hereby cordially invites you to take part in a collective staging of a feminist utopia! Let's treat ourselves to a temporary amnesia about the practical aspects of the here and now and instead try to visualize an INTENSE ECSTATIC FUTURE together.
We concentrate on the room we are occupying and within the surrounding walls we imagine no longer being in opposition - no more defenses, no longer the feeling of being two steps behind. We imagine the world as it will be when we have won, the day after the revolution, when patriarchy, capitalism, racism, sexism and their brothers have fallen, and a new world rises from the ashes. We allow ourselves no compromises, going all the way, to the extreme. And from that glorious point in the future we recount our steps back to where we are today, mapping out our path to success. ______________________________
2. How do we do it?: This will be a collective creative process were we will work with practical exercises, lively discussions, personal reflection and writing. Use of the body is obligatory, a hands-on, mapping of the future. If you are not ready to get down and dirty – don’t bother knocking.
______________________________
3. About Malmoe Free University for Women – MFK Malmoe Free University for Women (MFK) is an ongoing art project initiated in Sweden in 2006 by artists Lisa Nyberg and Johanna Gustavsson. The goal of MFK is to create a place where art, politics and feminism are brought together and combined, to enable space for creative, intellectual, political dialogue and action. MFK activates alternative kinds of knowledge production and distribution through activities such as workshops, lectures and film screenings. Issues of art, feminism and politics are discussed with a specific focus on how to counter dominant power relations, gender structures and normative thinking. By combining theory and practice MFK explores the meaning of collective action. www.mfkuniversitet.blogspot.
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16 Beaver Group 16 Beaver Street, 5th fl New York, NY 10004
for directions/subscriptions/info visit: http://www.16beavergroup.org
TRAINS: 4,5 Bowling Green R,W Whitehall 2,3 Wall Street J,M Broad Street 1,9 South Ferry
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