‘The calendar is made up of the past, for those at the top. So that it will stay that way, the powerful fill it up with statues, holidays, museums, homages, parades. That all serves the purpose of keeping the past in place; where things have already happened and not where they will happen,’ says Don Durito, a well-dressed, pipe smoking beetle from the Lacandon Maya jungle, who appointed Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Liberation Army to be his shield bearer.
Daily, Friday 26th August to Monday 29th August in the Glo Lounge. The effects of the colonial project and its relevance today told through first day covers
Heroine Lisl Ponger explores the eurocentricity of museum collections in new installation, on show at Das Weisse Haus, Vienna until July 3 2021.
Die österreichische Künstlerin Lisl Ponger kuratiert bereits seit dem ersten Lockdown ein wöchentliches Filmprogramm auf der britischen Website Hundred+ Heroines.
In the latest episode of our podcast series, “Voices”, Heroine Lisl Ponger, curator of our weekly Online Film Festival, talks about how her way of working and living has changed in 2020, as well as her favourite programmes from the festival.
Objects made by hand, some traditional, some unusual, some unexpected, and all show the ingenuity and dexterity of their makers.
Week 35, Health, Drugs and Rock n Roll, Drugs can heal or destroy, they can cause death or prevent it.
Week 34, I am Unbeatable, This programme is about violence against women – violence against minority groups, domestic violence, human trafficking, child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and femicide. The problem knows no geographical borders, race or class boundaries, it is embedded in the power structure and inequalities of patriarchal society.
‘The calendar is made up of the past, for those at the top. So that it will stay that way, the powerful fill it up with statues, holidays, museums, homages, parades. That all serves the purpose of keeping the past in place; where things have already happened and not where they will happen,’ says Don Durito, a well-dressed, pipe smoking beetle from the Lacandon Maya jungle, who appointed Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista Liberation Army to be his shield bearer.
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