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Strategija nadmika II
Queer vikend u Beogradu

16-19. oktobra 2003.
Gayten LGBT, Beograd

Sa ponosom najavaljujemo prvi internacionalni queer događaj pod nazivom Strategija nadimka 2 (Coming Out With Nick II) koji će biti odrzan 16-19. oktobra 2003. u organizaciji Gayten-LGBT, Centra za promociju prava seksualnih manjina.

Projekat Strategija nadimka I (realizovan 2000, http://www.cyberrex.org/cown/) imao je za cilj promociju, vidljivost i artikulaciju LGBT prava u srpskim medijima. Kroz različite umetničke tehnike i prakse i bez obzira na stil, poreklo i istorijski kontekst ideja, jedini parameter koji je uticao na izbor radova je različitost i otvorenost.

Projekat Strategija nadimka I je podrzao Fond za Otvoreno drustvo i Goethe institute (Izlozba ''100 godina prava homoseksualaca u Nemačkoj'' je bila deo programa). Za više informacija posetite www.cyberrex.org/cown.

Ovogodišnja Strategija nadimka II (Coming Out With Nick II) će uključiti više inostranih gošći i gostiju u program koji čine queer izložba, prezentacija teorijskih radova, filmovi i radionice.

Strategija nadimka II koristi umetnost, teoriju i aktivizam da predstavi savremeni queer diskurs, pravce i razvoje, ali ce pokušati da artikuliše i pozicionira lokalne queer izraze.

Koristeći različite teorijske perspektive i iskustva želimo putem otvorenog dijaloga da istražimo relacije i pozicije queer identiteta u istočnoj i zapadnoj Evropi i na taj način otvorimo dijalog između učesnika, ali i prisutne publike.

Kroz radionice, prezentacije, izložbu, predavanja, filmove iz zapadnih/istočnih zemalja queer senzibiliteta želimo da pružimo mogućnost za razmišljanje o našim sličnostima i različitostima i istražimo strategije protiv represije na različitim nivoima.

Prezentujući različite forme/strategije queer kulture u Beogradu, direktno otvaramo diskusiju koja će biti relevantna da osnaži civilno drustvo i ljudska prava kao i queer izraze u srpskoj LGBT zajednici.

Za sve informacije javite se mailom na gayten@gay-serbia.com

DETALJNIJE O PROGRAMU

Izložba, Četvrtak, 18 oktobar, 18-20 h

Queer Mode >> Post

• Evolutionary Girls (USA), videti >> Evolutionary Girls
  "Oppression is the absence of choices" bell hooks
  The Evolutionary Girls Club works for peace through art and activism. Their artwork, writing, and other actions are aimed toward giving and having voice and access. We believe that oppression and violence are wrong in any form and strive to help create a world where all people are sovereign citizens with choices around how they live in the world. Especially in light of the impending war, our group is committed to working through art and other forms of activism to promote peaceful resolutions.
  
  The Evolutionary Girls Club is an inclusive group. For this reason, no one statement on any issue can adequately speak for all of our beliefs and experiences. The link below will lead you to a page where some individual members have made their individual statements in regards to issues around peace and war.
  
  
• Mighty (SCG), videti >> www.the-mighty.com
  
  
• Deivan (SCG), videti >> 'S verom u sex' i 'Elektro muškarac'
  
  
• Nordijski c/b slajdovi - od Islanda do Latvije
  
  
• art work iz Finske i Švedske ( '1st Jerusalem Pride" od Nine Boström)

Prezentacija, Četvrtak, 18 oktobar, 20:30-21:30 h

Gender Play and Genderfuck -
How Dyke/Trans BDSM Communities are subverting Gender

The binary gender system is still so strong that a lot of people who are dealing with queer theory and/or politics have problems to imagine what alternative genders could look like. Some even deny that alternative genders can exist. I believe that the perspective of what I would call the Dyke/Trans BDSM Communities in the US and in some parts of Western Europe can show that there are many ways to subvert existing notions of gender. A lot of trans and non-trans people have found a space in this community to experiment with gender. In my presentation I will give some examples from my research that is grounded in my own experiences as well.

• Robin Bauer, University of Hamburg
  

  Robin Bauer defines as a non-op trans-boy who's into BDSM and has strong
  ties to the Dyke/Trans-BDSM communities. He teaches queer studies at the
  Unversity of Hamburg and is working on his PhD-thesis on queer BDSM practices. In
  Hamburg he is working with others to build a radical queer community.

Radionica, Petak, 17 oktobar, 17-19 h

Traveling Images: Desire Draws the Body

A cooperative workshop by Antke Engel (Hamburg), Christiana Lambridinis (Athens) and Ines Doujak (Vienna) on desire as movement, text, and theory. Together with you we will produce images, words, and thoughts of and on the desiring and desired body that is moving in political field of heteronormative societies.

• Antke Engel (Hamburg/Germany) has been engaged in feminist and queer theory and activism for nearly two decades, co-edited the feminist magazin "Hamburger FrauenZeitung" from 1990 to 1997, co-organized the international conference "Queering Democracy. Sexuality, Gender, Cizizenship" 1998 in Berlin, and has been a staff member of the "International Women's University" in Hanover/Germany in 2000. At the moment she holds an interim position as associate professor for Queer Theory at the department of sociology at the University of Hamburg.
  Antke Engel got her PhD in Philosophy at Potsdam University in 2001. In her dissertation "Wider die Eindeutigkeit" (Frankfurt/M: Campus, 2002) she analyzes concepts of sex, gender and sexuality as well as a "strategy of equivocation" in queer/feminist politics of representation. Focusing on the binary, hierarchical and heteronormative gender order which is intertwined with other forms of social power relations she asks how material and structural transformations can be effected through cultural politics.

• Christiana Lambrinidis (Greece) is an independent scholar and an internationally known playwright awarded for her methodology on theater as conflict resolution. In 2000 she was given the Lillian Hellmann & Dashiel Hammett award for directing and producing ''Lesbian Blues'' - the first lesbian play in Greece, by the international organization HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, 2000. She resides in Greece where since 1992 she mentors, teaches, and actively supports creative writing / creative thinking, women's literature for women in urban and rural settings, street kids, immigrants, refugees, adolescent boys and girls at the borders, university students, teachers, medical workers - as a strategy for social change. Her own plays have been produced in universities and foundations around the world. She is the editor of the first feminist publishing series in Greece, Ť women's writing: theory, literature, philosophyť , Kohlias 2002 -, in collaboration with one of the largest publishing house of educational books in the country (Savallas Publications). For the writing projects she conducts she collaborates with the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the Forum of Left Feminists, ILGA, Women in Black, universities, and local governments. She has held visiting teaching positions at Harvard University, Wheaton College, Brandeis University. In 2000 with women, refugees, and members of the Turkish minority in Greece she co-founded (W)rightful - a write to right, a NGO that restores dignity through writing and theater. Latest and upcoming projects: ''cancer as writing and writing as cancer'' a solo performance of a 73 year old woman who survived cancer and has transformed her experience into a literature of survival. ''Families and dis-placement'' a performance of refugee and immigrant men and women from Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Balkans in 17 different languages against racist, homophobic, and xenophobic practices in Greece.

Radionica, Subota, 18 oktobar, 12-14h

• Claudia Koltzenburg (Hamburg, Germany), feminist networker

Abstract:What is networking? What can it be used for? How can I use it? How do I start? How do I take part? What makes it fun?
In this workshop we'll look at what kinds of networks there are and how they function, also, what infrastructure, what media people employ to keep things running. Let's looks closely at the matter, exchange our views and see how queering techniques can make it even more fun reaching out to people we do not yet know!

Prezentacija, Subota, 18 oktobar ,15:30-17 h

• Annamari Vanska, Researcher at University of Helsinki / Department of Art History, Finland

Abstract: ''Why are there no lesbian advertisements?"

In the 1990s fetishised images of women and men became informed by the economic logic of capitalist consumer culture, and designed to make products appear ''sexy'' and ''desirable''. At the same time, in the Anglo-American advertisements, lesbians and gays became a new marketing segment for advertisers (Gluckman and Reed 1997; Hennessy 2000; Edwards 2000). However, this paper focuses on some 1990s fashion advertisements circulated in mainstream i.e. heterosexual fashion magazines, such as Vogue and L'Uomo Vogue. It conceptualizes fashion advertisements as a ''technology of gender and sexuality'' (de Lauretis 1987; Foucault 1998), as a field of producing and reproducing knowledge about heterosexual, white, middle-class femininity and masculinity through sight. The paper shows how advertisements contribute to the production of heteronormative and heterosexist gazing structure (Mulvey 1975). It analyses certain fashion advertisements as representational moments, which produce subjects whose gaze and desire has remained untheorized also within straight and lesbian feminisms. Crucial question of the paper is how queer theory can be treated as a critique of the heteronormative gazing order and as a method of producing knowledge about gaze and desire interrupting this structure (de Lauretis 1994; Doty 1993; Evans and Gamman 1995). Doing this, the paper pays attention to the complex range of different spectator positions and shows the impossibility of clear-cut and essentializing categories of gaze and desire. It argues that queer representations are formative of the whole societal structure and queer gazes and desires have been in advertisements and their audiences all along

• Antu Sorainen, Co-ordinator of lesbian and queer studies at the University of Helsinki

Abstract: Queer ''Family'' Revisited

The law on registered same-sex partnership was passed on in Finland on March 2003. We now have the first figures of the amount of registered couples (407 women and 470 men during the first year). The legal possibility to register has caused real changes in the lives and relationships of queer people. But what about those who do not want to registrate or to live in monogamous relationships - are they going to be outlawed from the new legally grounded family-scene?
I will ask, whether it is possible to analyse queer kinship without using the concept of family as the point of departure. In feminist anthropology and sociology the concept of "family" has been horoughly problematised. The term has been criticised for being western, universalistic and ethnocentric. It excludes other forms of intimate/loyal relations than those which are comprehensible according to the western familial deology. It maintains the dichotomies and binary hierarchies typical for the hegemonic western culture. For example, anthropologists Jane Collier, Michelle Rosaldo and Sylvia Yanagisako argued in their 1997 article ''Is there a Family?'' that the concept of ''family'' is a thoroughly political and operational concept created by western anthropologists.
Kath Weston's ground-breaking research ''Families We Choose'' (1991) studied lesbian and gay kinship. Her analysis was built on a notion of how queer kinship ideologies in the USA had incorporated prevalent heterosexual symbols and justifications of authenticity (endurance, commitment, strength) but still generated uncommon meanings. According to Weston, ''gay family'' is part of a complex social struggle - never a free-standing paradigm. But is there anything subversive in the concept of queer ''family''? What kind of conceptual, emotional and practical relationships does the
concept of ''family'' exclude as a methodological tool? Leo Bersani argues in ''Homos'' (1995, 5) that we are merely reduced to playing subversively with normative identities, attempting to ''resignify'' the family for communities that defy the usual assumptions about what constitutes a family. These efforts
can fortify, rather than subvert, the principal aim of homophobia: the elimination of queers.Judith Butler has recently argued that the western understanding of kinship is always-already heterosexual. How about those who resist the concept of family and still maintain social and intimate relationships? Or what about those who choose to live outside the (queer) community? What kind of cultural concepts and justifications they can employ for their subjectivity and ''kin'' relationships?

• Antu Sorainen
  is the co-ordinator of lesbian and queer studies at the University of Helsinki and has taught queer issues from 1991. She has published widely on topics of lesbian and queer history and theory. She is completing her PhD in cultural anthropology and women's studies in 2003 on "women's same-sex fornication trials in Finland in the 1950s."

Filmske projekcije, Subota, 18 oktobar , 18:00-19:30 h

"Less than Human" -- film Amnesty Netherlands. 35 min. Homo legal rights battles in Turkey, Latin America, Zimbabwe and the United States. (English or English subtitles)

"Homophobia -- that painful problem" -- Lionel Bernard (France). 55 min.
Powerful documentary journey around the globe, with interviews, televisin coverage, cuts from feature films -- illustrating the human rights struggle. (Mostly French) (English subititles.)

"Precious Moments" -- Lars Daniel Kurtzoff Jacobsen (Norway). 16 min.
Feature film based on real legal case of a 30-year-old man arrested for having sex with a youth who lied about being 2 months under the legal age of 16.(Norwegian dialogue, English subitltes) (Winner of Teddy Bear at Berlinale 2003)

"The Last Walz" -- Teresa Fabik (Sweden). 15 min. Two older men look
back at the missed chances of their youth and try once again to reach each other before it's too late). (Narration in English)

"Cum Pane" -- Anna Kjellsson. 10 min. (Sweden) Baking bread in the
far north -- A jazz-filled documentary with a lesbian's touch of sensuality and humor. (No spoken words)

"Thin Lips, Thick Lips" -- Paul Lee (Canada). 6 min. Prize-winning
close-up of a black man and an oriental -- wondering if they should embrace in a world filled with threats and violence. (No spoken words (except an occassion shout!)


Radionica, Nedelja, 19 oktobar, 12-14 h

Mag. Johanna Schaffer
Mag. Marcella Stecher

Strong Upper Arm? Shiftable Promises?
Radical sexual politics: alternative concepts of the body and desire in queer, lesbian film/video images of S/M

The workshop:
Within feminist debate, lesbian S/M fantasies have outlined a controversial terrain between political incorrectness and a politics of visibility begging for respect. In any case, they have opened a necessary form for the discussion of sexuality, power, representation, and fantasy. We move beyond the girl-meets-girl pattern to seek out queer, lesbian representations of sex that pursue ways of situating a self (also in relation to others) as a sexual subject, beyond the myth of love and couple compulsion, beyond emotional and psycho dramas, and beyond a feminist norm that prohibits using others and allowing oneself to be used. Thus, we are seeking representations of sex where people take positions that make themselves objects, or objectify others with their consent. Our main focus is on S/M as a communal practice for producing sexual fantasies based on explicit and consensual construction and negotiation of rules, which by doing so, provide the initial enabling framework for this practice. That which fascinates us about S/M is the possibility, often negotiated, of a libidinal zoning of the body beyond genitality and the heterosexual matrix. We want to promote a common dialogue on how certain images evoke and support possible alternatives for self-empowerment with reference to sexual behaviour. We assume a readiness to reconstruct the effects of a historical feminist debate along one of its most productive points: the differentiation between representation, action, and fantasy -while acknowledging the interwovenness of these realms of reality. We understand fantasy as a unique realm of reality that does not denote an object of desire, but rather, functions as its setting. We ask that you bring the willingness to be challenged by images that touch upon one´s own borders of reasonability. We hope for an inquisitive desire to discuss, which, however, does not imply that everyone will whare the fantasies screened or that they will be accessible to all.

Intentions of the workshop:
We want to promote a common dialogue on how certain images evoke and support possible alternatives for self-empowerment with reference to sexual behaviour.
The images we chose to show were developed with regard to female, lesbian sexual subject- and also objecthood. They are very different from the issues around gay S/M imagery and culture and also the little transgendered S/M imagery that exists, that is not somewhat tied in some way to a lesbian subculture. And while we do indeed think it is highly necessary and also very exciting to confront these different genres and worlds, this confrontation and interweaving needs and opens up entirely different questions, and they need another framing. So you will indeed only see images that very clearly refer to a lesbian S/M culture.
But: if by ''queer we want to understand a movement of thought, that questions any logical combination of sexualitry (lesbian), gender (female) and desiring position (desiring another lesbian), then some of them will indeed be queer.

Topics that function as background:
- Questions of visibility politics (of how political subjects are or should be represented)
- Questions about the relation between reality and fantasy
- Genealogy: The field of the Sex Wars as a conflict about naming and ideology (violence versus power, respectively how a queer/lesbian subject is conceived in regard to sex/sexuality)
- Agency and Representation: Insofar as S/M deals explicitly and consciously about power, gender, sexuality, desire, mutual relations et.al., it might be a crucial point for thinking and talking about images/phantasies/sex and politics - also in regard to communities and subcultures

Structure of the workshop:
Duration: 2 hours
Equipment: VCR

In this workshop we want to show small fragments of 4 films/videos that deal with sex and desire in the context of S/M.These images will be very explicit.
Our focus is not to talk about bodily experiences. We will discuss viewing experiences.
For the duration of the workshop we want to create a safe environment, where everybody feels welcome with her/his attitudes.

• Johanna Schaffer:
  Studied art history, is currently writing her phD at the University of Oldenburg. She teaches as free lecturer at the university in the field of feminist critics of representation and feminist film theory; she co-founded the feminist collective for translating ''gender et alia'' and participates in several feminist, queer and anti-racist contexts.
  Selected publications: ''Kinderschutzwahn? Sexerziehung!'' In: Feministische Antirassistische Öffentlichkeiten. Sondernummer von <Vor der Information'', Wien 2000. Überarbeitet und wiederabgedruckt als ''Kinderschutzwahn? Sexerziehung! Gegen die Umcodierung des Themas ‚sexuelle Gewalt' in den Politiken der Rechten.'' In: Doris Guth u. Elisabeth v. Samsonow (Hg.), SexPolitik. Wien: Turia u. Kant 2001. ''Why Eva Did It. Monika Treuts Dokumentation‚ Didn't Do It For Love'',. in: AUF - eine Frauenzeitschrift, Nr. 103, März 99 (gem. mit Marcella Stecher)

• Marcella Stecher:
  Studied history of theatre, diploma with ''The female body as/in Science Fiction. Discursive Conditions for a Deconstruction of Ridley Scott´s Film ''Alien'', currently writing her dissertation (working title: ''The promises of the fetish. Fetishism as a filmic strategy for the representation of inferior agency''), works in feminist projects such as ''Frauenhetz'' (Center for Feminist Education and Culture) and the queer project ''Gendertalk'' (about the Politics of Feminism and Transgender).

Filmska projekcija i tribina, Nedelja, 19 oktobar, 16-18 h

Filmska projekcija ''Lesbian Blues'' i razgovor o filmu, Christiana Lambrinidis (Grčka)

• Christiana Lambrinidis (Greece) is an independent scholar and an internationally known playwright awarded for her methodology on theater as conflict resolution. In 2000 she was given the Lillian Hellmann & Dashiel Hammett award for directing and producing ''Lesbian Blues'' - the first lesbian play in Greece, by the international organization HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, 2000.