Invitation to participate in a platform on women’s heritage
Each one of us has their own methods of navigating through a “peculiar” reality. Some of them have been woven under our skin by society, and others have been painfully gained so that later we can spontaneously draw them out like aces up our sleeves and fight for them with blood. We elevate each of these methods to the extent of them becoming a myth or at least house rules and we nurture them and un/consciously pass them on.
Clothes airers as panel dividers in the function of establishing boundaries and enclosing personal space, “going out for coffee” to the driver’s and passenger’s seat of a car parked in front of the house, deeply meditative states of moving the furniture around the flat, solving administrative tasks while on the toilet, gaining insight and writing down the essence of life in the course of staring at the water that is boiling right now, feeling of absolute independence and victory over the demon of powerlessness after fixing household problems, practicing yoga on that one square meter area between the cactus, the armchair and the dustbin, serious discussion with the person in the mirror, health counselling via whatsapp group and evaluation of the situation a few days later via zoom, singing the instructions or leaving messages on post-it notes to those who “can’t hear” us, worshiping our late grandmothers by safe keeping a banknote in an obsolete currency that she gave us as a gift for “God forbid” cases, selfie as a form of keeping a diary, disembodying you expected “femininity” while playing with children, brushes and laundry clips that are used as a hairband, garden in a jar, atelier on the balcony, ...
Alices in Wonderland, Pippi Longstockings, etc., we know them all and we call upon them if necessary.
By exchanging scenes and stories that depict our living habits we want to celebrate the diversity of the fantastic mechanisms of woman’s self-organisation and resilience! Primarily, we want to contribute to the normalisation of all the states we find ourselves in and all the feelings from which our personal patterns of behaviour grow, encourage reflection on gender in/equality and give space for the current tension to grow into recognition, compassion, tears or laughter.
Write to us, take a photo, shoot a video, collect and organize something or take notes and share what represents your female heritage to utkanopodkozu@gmail.com. For all additional explanations and questions, we are available at the same address.
The maximum size of the publication is:
- 5 photos/photo montages
- 2 videos up to 5/10 minutes each
(send it via WeTransfer, google disc or upload it to YouTube or Vimeo and send the link)
- Sound recording of maximum length 5 minutes
- Gif
- Piece of writing exclusively with a photo/gif/video up to 1000 characters at most
- A combination of these.
Incoming mail will be shared in the form of a publication on the websites of the project Utkano pod kožu (Woven under the skin):
Materials will be used in the documentary video “Njihova tkanja” (Their weaves) as part of the Utkano pod kožu (Woven under the skin) project and presented as part of the exhibition that will be opened from May 27, 2022 at Galerija Događanja (Gallery of Events) of the Knap Cultural Centre in Zagreb. Over the duration of the exhibition a discussion on female heritage will be held for all those who are interested to join.
By participating in this project, you give your consent to the use of the submitted materials for the above listed needs of the project (publishing on the website, Facebook and Instagram accounts of the project, being represented in the project’s video documentation and presenting at the exhibition) and the promotion of the project. Upon the request of the authors, some scenes and stories can be presented anonymously.
If for whatever reason you don’t want your publication to appear in the video, please let us know in advance.