Fear and Gender in Public Space
Part of the exhibition Soft Power, curated by Jiyoon Lee
World Women´s Forum 12-14th September 2007 in Seoul.
Fear and Gender in Public Space is an ongoing curatorial and research process by Veronica Wiman presented as part of the exhibition Soft Power curated by Jiyoon Lee, during the World Women´s Forum 12-14th September 2007 in Seoul.
The site specific presentation and intervention during the World Women´s Forum in Seoul presents four video/photographic works by artists, filmmakers and photographers Zanele Muholi, Gerard Marx/ Lara Foot Newton, Pinar Asan and Gina Osterloh. invited by Veronica Wiman. With the Swedish artist collective r a k e t a´s sculpture and questionnaire, visitors of the presentation and the Hotel are also invited to take part in the global journey and investigation of Fear and Gender in Public Space.
>>> Who is the city for, by whom is it created and what shall we do there?
There is a "rape park" in almost every city. Women's fear and vulnerability in public space is universal and a subject of society - but as well yours and mine. Our patriarchal society also dominates public space and contemporary moral sense and it continues to demand women to take responsibility for male sexuality. Fear and Gender in Public Space investigates art in the public realm and the power of artistic practice to research and effect civic concerns. Through the exchange within the interdisciplinary group and encounters with the city's architecture and society designers, civics develop personal and collaborative understandings and practice.
Fear and Gender in Public Space unfolds in curatorial, social and educational practice and is part of an ongoing international curatorial/research project by curator Veronica Wiman called Fear and Gender in Public space taking local perspectives from a multitude of global contexts as a starting point. So far the project has travelled to and been implemented in Cali (Colombia), Los Angeles (US), Helsinki (Finland), Banff (Canada) and Johannesburg (South Africa).
WORK TITLES
ENRAGED BY A PICTURE
Zanele Muholi
AND THERE IN THE DUST
Gerard Marx/ Lara Foot Newton
ANY NOON
Pınar Asan
SOMEWHERE TROPICAL
Gina Osterloh
Questionnaire by r a k e t a
Book of Questions by r a k e t a
