Are you a Feminist?

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6 pm: Live interviews with HERstory and Käthe Wenzel
7:30 pm: Discussion
with Julie Crenn, Pascal Lièvre, hn. lyonga (tbc), Sarnt Utamachote and Käthe Wenzel
Moderation: Eva Bentcheva

What does it mean to call oneself a “feminist” these days? This question has been the subject of many debates and definitions recently. From the fight against gender inequality to the recognition of intersecting identities, intersectional conditions and socio-political realities, feminism continues to generate much conversation in the fight for social justice.

Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre (HERstory oral archive)
HERstory is a compendium of oral interviews that artist Pascal Lièvre and curator Julie Crenn have been gathering since 2012 on gender and sexuality discourses in art, making it accessible online. The audiovisual archive, which originally started in France, now includes hundreds of interviews from all over the world and is supplemented with Berlin queer feminist actors.

Eva Bentcheva
is an art historian and curator with a focus on transnational archives, conceptualism, performance and participation art in South/Southeast Asia and Europe. She is Associate Lecturer at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (Heidelberg University), as well as Postdoctoral Researcher and Publications Coordinator for the international research project Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation. She completed her PhD in Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on The Cultural Politics of British South Asian Performance Art, 1960s to the Present.
Her previous positions have included Adjunct Researcher for the Tate Research Centre: Asia, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Goethe-Institut Fellow at Haus der Kunst in Munich where she co-curated the exhibition Archives in Residence.

hn. lyonga
is a Black, queer, multi-genre writer, and curator of perspectives, MA student in American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, co-founder of the Black Student Union at Humboldt, member of the Kuratorium of BARAZANI.berlin – Forum Kolonialismus und Widerstand, the artist collective Field Narratives, with interest in Black speculative literature, fixity of land as infrastructure and storytelling as an act of memory reconfiguration.

Sarnt Utamachote
is a Southeast Asian nonbinary filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. They are a co-founder of un.thai.tled, an artist collective from the German-Thai diaspora, and curated many film events and exhibitions regarding postcolonial histories, Southeast Asian diaspora and activism. This includes the recent research-based exhibition Where is my karaoke? Still, we sing (2022) in Leipzig, Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park (2020), and the annual Celestial Festival in Berlin. Their short films such as Sonic Reverbs (2022), I Am Not Your Mother (2020) or Soy Sauce (2020) have been screened internationally. Currently they work as a programmer/selection committee for Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin and Short Film Festival Hamburg.

Käthe Wenzel
is a queer artist concerned with participation and collective authorship, machines and service interventions, public spaces, hybrid bodies, and queer ecologies. Her works function as speculative to dystopic footnotes to world events. They aim at participation, communication and the subversion of hegemonic culture – from the street to the internet. To this end, she uses interventions, interviews, mechanics/electronics, speculative fiction, and street art.
Since 2016, she has been Professor of Aesthetic Practice at the European University of Flensburg; previous positions include Substitute Professor of Art and Art History at the International Jacobs University Bremen 2012; Visiting Professor and Fulbright Exchange Scholarship at the School of Visual Arts, New York 2009 and 2010.

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