14:30-17:30
Das Goldene Buch
First Workshop: 20-21. May 2023, 14:30-17:30 (only with registration )
After the workshop: Resilience & Care: Performance Evenings in collaboration with QM&A Artist Collective. (open to public), 18:00-22:00, curated by Deniz Güvensoy

“Das Goldene Buch” is the result of the fundamentally fragmented identity of women* who appear as a whole in official records. Worker, migrant, activist, mother, housewife, spouse, parent, politician, beloved, friend, etc… we are supposed to keep these identities separated, but when that fails, something new emerges from the chaos of formlessness: the Golden Book. In these fanzine workshops, we will describe the suffering due to the expectation to be “feminine” or “a woman” from society and aim to push back against practices of separation of home, and society. At the end we will publish a feminist photocopy magazine, titled “Das Goldene Buch”.

The two-day workshop is open to everyone (women*, trans, non-binary) whether they have a knowledge or skill in the arts or not. Each workshop will culminate in a zine, which will itself be part of our compilation zine, “The Golden Book”, to be launched in September. Workshop participants who contribute to the final zine will be compensated for their artistic work. After each workshop day; we will have a special evening program including cultural events, performances, music, and art tours, creating a independent platform for women* and AFAB people to find their artistic voices. After the first workshop, we will continue the evening by the performances of three artists: Zeynab Kirikou Gueye, anto_nie and Marina Leo Shamov.

Workshop tutor: Sezer Dilan Zırhlı had her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in ‘Turkish Language and Literature’ in Turkey. She has completed an MA degree in the Turkology Department at the University of Vienna. She is currently studying at the Ph.D. in Philosophy Department at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She works as a Turkish teacher/language trainer, freelance writer, literary critic, and editor in various magazines.

Please register: https://forms.gle/Np714ZhEkXtga7GF8

18:00 - 22:00
Resilience and Care
Curator: Deniz Güvensoy
Artists: Zeynab Kirikou Gueye, anton_ie and Marina Leo Shamov
Performance and Lectures,
collaboration of QM&A Artist Collective and Das Goldene Buch Project

In these two performative evenings, which will follow the first workshop of the Das Goldene Buch project, we will experience three different performative approaches that engage art with activism. All interested in the issues of trans-inclusive, queer feminism, anti-war, anti-discriminatory activism, ecology and more than human identities, the artists will present a set of a variety of manifesting political and artistic expression. Following the workshop, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye will perform ‘Homecoming’, an artwork based on story telling and a semi-hybrid DJ-Set. Sharing the nuances of learning about belonging through their embodied experience of returning to Senegal, a place of their ancestry, they will question what power lies in a Black queer consciousness multiplied by racially distinct contexts. On our second evening, anto_nie will present a lecture, taking you a ride into the world of queer/coded villains, queer monstrosity and its representation in horror movies. After that, Marina Leo will perform a rap performance “When somewhere there becomes somewhere here”, dealing with political oppression and queer resistance, based on the manifesto-songs of the Techno-Poetry cooperative, of which Marina is a member.

Biographies:
anto_nie is a mixed media artist and facilitator who comes from an activist background and incorporates care into her work. Her practice includes facilitating workshops based on adrienne maree brown’s practice, exploring ‘gossip’ as a radical feminist sonic technology, also works with 3D, game engines, immersive audio, and other ways of creating communal non-physical space.

Zeynab Kirikou Gueye is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, community organizer, founder of a digital queer-feminist platform and a DJ. Their practice is influenced by their Senegalese heritage, love for pro-Black queerness, intersectional feminism and by their interest in natural cultural ecologies and the abilities to dream of visionary futurisms amidst social depression.

Marina Leo Shamov is an artist, queer-rap performer, and LGBTQ2 activist who explores various topics in their artistic practice, such as bacterias, plants, political imagination, identity politics and non-human identities. After being detained for participation in queer pride, opposition to transphobic laws and their anti-war stance, during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Marina Leo emigrated after holding seven anti-war dance pickets in St.-Petersburg.

Program :
20th May 2023
19:20- 20:00 “Homecoming”, semi-hybrid, DJ set and performance by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye
20:00- 22:00 Music and drinks
21th May 2023
18:00 - 19:00 ‘Build your own dream villain’, Lecture performance by anto_nie
20:00 - 20:40 Marina Leo Shamov, When somewhere there becomes somewhere here”, Musical Rap Performance
20:40-22:00 Music and drinks