>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Piet Zwart Institute
> institute for postgraduate studies and research
> of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool
> Rotterdam
>
> trans / gender symposium
>
> 11th of January 2003
>
> 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
>
> Zaal de Unie
> Mauritsweg 34
> Rotterdam tel. 010-4141666
>
> "Transgender is a term whose exact meaning is still
> in dispute, and I
> consider that a very healthy sign. The most widely
> accepted definition
> is that transgender includes everything not covered
> by our culture's
> narrow terms "man" and "woman"." (Sandy Stone)
>
> Since the beginning of the '90s, the discussion
> surrounding the process
> of defining sexual identity has gained momentum.
> The introduction of the term gender, which permits a
> wider
> interpretation of masculine and feminine, and the
> concepts of queer and
> transgender are good examples.
> The trans / gender symposium is an interplay among
> gender (theory and
> practice) and archaeology, new media and art.
> Furthermore, it takes a
> closer look at the space between trans and gender,
> the space around the
> symbol "/". This is the space the symposium will
> explore.
>
>
> for information and reservations:
>
> Nina Hoechtl and Suzanne van Rossenberg,
> organization:
> trans_gender@???
>
> or
>
> Anke Bangma, course director Piet Zwart Institute,
> fine art:
> A.Bangma@??? /(0031)-0-10-4045054
> admission: ¤5,00/students ¤2,50
> (reservation is recommended)
>
>
>
> Gender, Material Culture and Time
>
> Marjolijn Kok - Theoretical archaeologist M.A.
> Co-founder and editor of the journal 'p.i.t.:
> archaeological
> experience'. Currently working as a Phd-student at
> the University of
> Amsterdam, on the subject: Iron Age offering sites
> in a watery context
> in Noord-Holland.
>
> "Archaeology is a social science. Most
> archaeologists are generalists,
> this means that we attribute more significance to
> similarity -which
> gives us the chance to define cultures- , than to
> difference -which may
> tell us something of how individuals dealt with
> their culture. Studying
> gender in archaeology means to stop generalizing and
> look at the
> so-called noise. For only this way we may be able to
> get a glimpse of
> the complexity of social life." (Marjolijn Kok)
>
>
> A Transgender Body: The Construction of Body and Sex
>
> Marieke van Eijk- feminist political scientist, M.A.
> (Women's studies)
> and student M.A. Social and Cultural Theology at the
> University of
> Amsterdam; currently a teacher at Women's studies at
> the University of
> Amsterdam.
>
> We lay without speaking for a long time. I broke
> finally the silence
> with a question: "Do you think I'm a woman?"
> Edna got up on one elbow and looked at me. "What do
> you think?" she
> asked gently. I sighed. "I don't know. There's never
> been many other
> women in the world I could identify with. But I sure
> as hell don't feel
> like a guy, either. I don't know what I am. It makes
> me feel crazy"*
>
> *from: Feinberg, Leslie, Stone Butch Blues,
> Firebrand books, New York
> 1993
>
>
>
>
> "Through the works of Thomas Laqueur, Michel
> Foucault and Judith Butler
> and through examples of people who are living in an
> area between the
> sexes male and female, I would like to make clear
> that a person's sex is
> as unnatural as the body." (Marieke van Eijk)
>
>
> "Are There Any Women Here Today?"
> Beyond the Stone Butch Blues. Fe/Male Troubles
> Revisited from a Feminist
> Point of View
>
> Verena Kuni - Art & Media Theorist M.A.
> Research, teaching, projects & publications in the
> field of contemporary
> art, electronic media, and gender studies. Currently
> ass. researcher &
> teacher at the university of Trier as well as for
> the project
> <gender/media/art> at HfG Offenbach and the Centre
> for Gender Studies in
> the Arts at the HfMDK Frankfurt/M.
>
>
> "No doubt, images of transgression are en vogue.
> When looking at what's
> circulating on the displays of contemporary art and
> popular media, from
> the galleries to MTV, it seems like our society is
> starving for the
> chance to get in touch with "Gender Blenders" and
> "Gender Benders",
> "Drag Queens" and "Kings", "Transvestites" and
> "Transsexuals"- at least
> as long as this encounter takes place in the neat
> framework of the
> media, of course. However, the question is not only:
> What happens when
> we decide to leave the surface to enter either the
> realms of the
> imaginary ruled by diverse economies of desire or
> the social spaces
> ruled by diverse politics of power? Even when
> pretending it is "just the
> images" we want to deal with, we won't be able to
> avoid to ask: How do
> you look at it?" (Verena Kuni)
>
>
> About the Production and the Representation of
> Gender Identities in
> Exhibitions
>
> Doris Guth - art historian (Phd) at the Academy of
> Fine Arts, Vienna
> (Institute of Theory, Practice and Mediation of
> Contemporary Art);
> leader of a study-group for equal treatment
> questions.
>
> It is Not a Matter of Choice.
>
> Risk Hazekamp - fine artist based in
> Rotterdam
>
> In her photographs and videos, Risk Hazekamp
> attempts to create a
> reality in which a different identity rules. By
> uniting the archetypal
> images of man/woman, there is a focus on the
> androgynous personality,
> unlike society's so-called 'boy meets girl'.
> The borderline where the 'masculine' and the
> 'feminine' brush shoulders,
> is a dominant factor. Another aspect is the
> impossibility of defining
> one's own gender without reference to 'the other'.
> Within the
> distinction between 'us' and 'them', Hazekamp
> prefers to be 'one of
> them'.
>
>
> Who is afraid of...? Feminist Interventions in the
> History of Art
>
>
> Mirjam Westen - art historian, art critic and since
> 1991 curator of
> contemporary art at Museum voor Moderne Kunst
> Arnhem.
>
>
> "Art history could be understood as a series of
> representational
> practices which actively produce definitions of
> sexual difference and
> contribute to the present configuration of sexual
> politics and power
> relations. In my lecture I will go through 30 years
> of feminist
> interventions in the history of art: interventions
> that make gender
> central to terms of historical analysis. Referring
> to influential
> publications (a.o. Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollack,
> Christine Battersby,
> J. Kristeva), to exhibitions (a.o. Women Artists.
> 1550-1950; Feminist
> Art International; Inside the Visible) and
> discussing the interventions
> of some important women-artists I will highlight
> issues such as gender
> and genius; gender and canon; gender and avantgarde
> and gender and
> representation. Are we witnessing a paradigm shift
> which will rewrite
> all cultural history, as art historian Griselda
> Pollock states it?"
> (Mirjam Westen)
>
>
>
>
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