17.00, Gallery Alkatraz
Web magazine presentation / Discussion
Beauty and Health with a Smile (Slovenia)
Plotki (Germany)
A critical view on women's magazines that sell stereotypical representations of (beautiful, healthy and ever-smiling) Woman by advocating "pre-tested" guidelines, advices and ultimately more feverish consumption. Ana Grobler's and Sladana Mitrovic's interactive web magazine Beuty and Health with a Smile takes an ironic and parodic stand on the vast differences between representations of Woman and women's daily realities.
The magazine is going to be presented by the authors. In Slovenian.
International femzine Plotki is based in Berlin and includes feminist rumours, news, art and reports "from around bloc, the East, South-East...". It is a platform for alternative communication, kept together by the ongoing discussion about feminisms - and the need to expand them.
The femzine is going to be presented by the Plotki collective members.
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18.00, Klub Gromka
Erotic and porn film screenings
By exploring sexual fantasies and realities, rather than their generic - and gendered - definitions, the program is going to present a variety of both amateur and professional, explicit and poetic, documentary and fantastic, queer and straight independent films that deliberately ignore, resist, laugh at or comment on what the mainstream porn industry has to offer.
Friday's film screening will be introduced by two of the selectors, Anna Ehrlemark and Tea Hvala, in discussion with Lana Zdravkovic.
The film screening will include films by Dayna McLeod (Canada), Jennifer Lyon Bell (USA/Netherlands), Emelie Jouvet (France), Girls Who Like Porno (Spain), Arantxa Martinez (Spain), Shine Louise Houston (USA), Chel White (USA), Barbara DeGenevieve (USA) and KeriOakie (USA).
Everybody's welcome to all screenings. Please, act respectfully - and enjoy!
Entrance fee: 2 €
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19.30, [A] Infoshop
Book Presentation / Discussion
Merchandise Women. On The Traces of Modern Slavery from Africa to Europe
Austrian political theorists and journalists Mary Kreutzer and Corinna Milborn, the authors of Ware Frau. Auf den Spuren moderner Sklaverei von Afrika nach Europa, have followed sex trafficking of women from Nigeria to Europe in a book that combines reportage and political analysis with testimonies of trafficked women from Nigeria. The authors discuss the causes of human trafficking and leave no doubt that the unequal distribution of resources between Europe and Africa, post-colonial structures, increasing demand for cheap sex, and more and more restrictive migration politics of European countries are at the very core of the problem.
The book is going to be presented by the authors. In English.
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20.30, Photon Gallery (Poljanska Street 1, Ljubljana)
Photography Exhibition / Opening
Luca Donnini (Italy): Insanely Great
Every one of Luca Donnini's portraits is a serious pursuit of nudity. To make the game challenging for both, he looks for his models in those marginal areas of society where the supposedly odd nude body, the sex or perversion, the sex change or ambiguous identity is not a taboo but a way of living.
Open until March 13th 2009.
Mon-Fri: 14.00-18.00 and Sat, March 7th: 12.00 -18.00.
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10.30pm, Menza pri koritu
Concert
Cherry Sunkist (Austria), Gustav (Austria)
Video artist and musician Karin Fisslthaler has been producing music and performing as Cherry Sunkist since 2004. Equipped with her laptop, drum computer, synthesizer, electric guitar, voice and her own visual effects, Cherry is going to present her witty semi-pop debut OK Universe.
Gustav is back in town! Viennese musician and singer Eva Jantschitsch alias Gustav released her second and long-awaited solo album Verlass die Stadt last year and caused quite a stir. Her, or rather his music is a perfect fusion of catchy pop songs, ironic Schalgers and laptop experimentation that catches you quite unprepared... for poetic and political strategies that reach into the yet unheard.
After the concert, nasty Djane Hellga is going to spank, punish and exhaust you in a dance orgy of soul, pop, bb, DnB, ethnoelectro, electroclash, and stiff-cold electronica.
Entrance fee: 7 €
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