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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd

2 PM Que(e)ry Pedagogy towards Identity? – Deconstructive Pedagogics with Jeannette Windheuser

For a long time, pedagogics could not be thought of without terms like “personality-” or “identity-development”. What happens, when education practice and queer theory meet in the effort of fighting discrimination? If criticizing the means of power and inequality does not generate a free subject, but shake up well-defined and categorized identities?

Elisabeth Tuider (2004) states, that within pedagogic actions, the point is not “to be the one or the other (male or female, heterosexual or homosexual) or something third (like bisexual or transsexual). Neither does it mean to be nothing at all anymore, but to be all. The issue is, to tolerate different possibilities of situating sexuality and culture, relationships, desires, lust and taste inside education sciences.” This is not only done to develop ethical determination or a pedagogic utopia, but first of all to take a look at one’s own paradigms and behavior. Using methods of didactics, those interested and concerned by pedagogics are invited to reflect chances and troubles in deconstructive anti-discrimination work.

4 PM Intimate Partner Violence with Almut Dietrich, coordinator of the Anti-Violence-Work for the LSBT of the state NRW in the RUBICON, Cologne.

“I thought, I was the only one, this happened to …” Violence within romantic relationships – a tabu within lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer associations? Violence between partners – offending words, but also concrete physical or sexual sway: most people automatically connect this subject to a classical heterosexual partnership. But what if violence occurs between two women, two men or within a trans-identical / queer couple? Does violence within these relationships really occur more seldom or less “violent”, as often supposed? Which notions and estimations do persons affected have, and which are those of their environment? How do those perceptions have an impact on handling violence in lesbian / gay or queer relationships? What can be done in concrete cases to end violence in a relationship? Dealing with these and other questions is the aim of the workshop as a possibility of altercation.

6 PM Boundless?

“Separation”ambitions by feminists often cause discomfort. Against the background of the posit of deconstruction, in- and exclusion are called into question. But why in fact do those try over and over again to win “free spaces”, “women-spaces”, who represent the postulate? Why do they have to be fought for instead of being self-evident? What is the difference between strategic separatism and specification of female identity? The people speaking will trace these questions and offer wide space for discussion.

6 PM Jingles

Introduction to the production of Jingles and other audiorecordings – for demos, websites, parties, … . With a normal computer, a microphone, the open source program “audacity” and great ideas good results are achieved easily. Here you learn how it’s done! Bringing your own laptop would be practical, but isn’t necessary. You will receive step-by-step instructions to assist you in future-use at home.

8 PM “Was HAT die denn?” (What’s UP with her?)

With “was HAT die denn” a thought-provoking radio interview with Gerburg Treusch-Dieter from the year 2005 is set into the spotlight by Anja Herden and Sebastian Kreyer. The sociologist explains herself, the world and the commonalities of coitus and kitchen. Freely translated citation: “Anja Herden had settled down homely and philosophized about the gender role, sexuality, morals, genesis and the benefit of work, to render moot. Thereby common philosophers and psychologists are cited [...], crazy and shrill, quasi right in the middle of the audience.” stadtmenschen.de

Since 2008 Anja Herden directs the “Strachinsky-Ensemble” in Hamburg, an independant theatre company, performing in Hamburg and on festivals. Since 2008 Sebastian Kreyer is the assistant director of the Schauspiel Cologne. He studied theatre sciences, philosophy and sociology in Leipzig and Berlin. During his study he worked, among others, for the Theaterverlag (performance rights organisation) and as a lecturer for the Volkshochschule (adult education centre). He met Gerburg Treusch-Dieter at the Humboldt University of Berlin – an enduring impression, generating the theatre evening “was HAT die denn?”.

10 PM Party with Hello Shitty (electro-riot / trash-pop) and Miss Stereo.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th

12 AM Open NoiseLab with Tina Tonagel and EOSIN (Kachelsaal AZ)

Visitors are invited to visit the noise lab all day and work with artists in order to explore different techniques of noise production. Tina Tonagel will assist you in building instruments on overhead projectors. Together with EOSIN you will learn how to use the turntable as a synthesizer or as an instrument; a synthesizer and sampler at the same time.

prepared TURNTABLE + deformed VINYL RECORDS workshop with EOSIN

EOSIN (Diana Combo) will lead this workshop allowing for participants to make their own unique noise sounds and loops and create their own compositions, to play alone or together with others. 
The idea is to treat the turntable both as a synthesizer and a sampler, as an instrument and a player. Vinyl records will be deformed in different ways, cut and glued together in sound collages; household objects will be assembled to the turntables providing an unusual variety of sounds; feedback and noises from the electric connections will be welcome.
Participants will be able to explore and record the sonorities and then play improvised sets.

Art and music with the overhead projector with Tina Tonagel

Tina works with a set of rotating invented instruments that mostly resemble string instruments. these are automated and produce sound by hitting and scratching on strings or directly on piezo elements. You are invited to build instruments with Tina, develop improvised sets during the day and can take your results home for further use.

2 PM Bondage with Mel

Bondage refers to practices of ravishment, in which the body is tied up, arranged elaborately or even decoratively (or simply for practical reasons). The bondage workshop addresses everyone who is interested and is open for all gender. No skills required. It is meant to be an interactive workshop, where the participants get together in groups of two or three and will tie each other up (WITH clothes on of course). Ropes are available, please bring a mat if required.

2 PM Community Accountability

Workshop Block 1 : Community Accountability for Sexual Violence

Does your community have a plan for how to react if someone you know and love is sexually assaulted?

‘Community Accountability’ is a framework developed by organizations in the U.S. for holding perpetrators of oppressive or violent behavior responsible through a process organized by communities, outside of State institutions. The concept comes out of the belief that communities are both responsible for, and affected by, the violence that happens within them. It was designed by and for people of color and queer/trans communities, often targeted by police and the State.

Workshop Block 2 : Transformative Justice : Perpetrator Accountability

The second workshop will build off the concepts discussed in the first, and focus more closely on models for perpetrator accountability processes within a community accountability structure. Transformative Justice seeks more transformative, less punitive ways of addressing violence in our communities. It is based on the belief that individual justice for survivors and social justice for us all are mutually supportive.

All workshops will be presented in English, and discussions can occur in German. Translation is available.
2 PM Gender Struggle from the political right wing – reactionary and emancipatory trends within the male-movement with Thomas Gesterkamp

Networks for the rights of men currently team up against feminism – using the internet as their main tool. The online networks claim that the equality between genders has been attained and that emancipation has ended. An end must be put to the “organised favoritism” of women.

The male-movement (if one wants to call them that) presents itself heterogeneously. Gender dialectical orientated alliances – under the auspices of the church – are presently founding a “National forum for Men” as a pendant to the German Women’s Council. Other activists scent the discrimination of men everywhere. They wail about a “caste of gender functionaries”, whose cultural hegemony restrains all contradictions.

Antifeminism is the main reference of the men’s-rights-activists. Also very typical is the reinterpretation of terms. In the fight for the sovereignty of interpretation they try to define words for their causes; pristine emancipatory terms like “liberation” and “gender-democracy”. Another important theoretical pattern is their anti-etatism: Referring to “principals of liberation” and the realm of civil society the activists of the male-movement wish to fight governmental dictation and warn against “re-education” by public institutions.

The referee is a journalist, author and a political scientist. For the production series “WISO-discurs” he wrote an expertise about the activism of “masculinists”.

4 PM DJ_ane with Chantal

On the basis of the computer program Rane Serrato and Timcode Vinyls the participants will gain basic knowledge of spinning the records. This includes hooking up the equipment and mixing the tracks. The focus will lie on electronic dance-music and last, but not least, the question why it is important, that women spin records!

Other issues are encouraged (e.g. about techniques (alternative programs); mixing; vinyl, computer or cd’s favored; costs, networks, etc.) and are welcome to be discussed.

The workshop addresses people who are normally at an disadvantage within this area of interest.

People who are:

+ WomenLesbianTrans*
+ without experience
+ physically challenged

4 PM Autonomous Opportunities for Action in the Daily Routine

Workshop with and for Women_Lesbian_Trans*

Different structures of power, hierarchy and paradigms are reproduced subtly in everyday life. Humans are pressed into categories or rather learn to function and to fulfill the role assigned to them. STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IS (NOT) A STATE OF NORMALITY!

During the workshop we will examine every-day situations from sterical (physical and spatial) perspectives. Along with theatre exercises and improvisations we want to improve perception and to advance our ability to behave autonomously.

… how can I deal with every-day stress and feeling awkward?

… how can I take my personal needs seriously?

…and how to be more sensitive to the boundaries of others?

4 PM About Fags, Twinks and Tough Guys: gay manliness, gay self-hate, gay politics with Patsy l’Amour laLove / Patrick Henze

The hegemonic prospect of only one valid masculinity is reproduced day by day and thereby verified within the public discourse. What is considered as “real” manliness leads to a very suffocated identity for each single subject: nobody can conform to the ideal. In the every-day life the failure of the hegemony of this manliness can be monitored. Through the attempt of several men to correspond to the ideal named, dynamics arise, that marginalize other, not accepted masculinities, discrediting them and discriminating against individuals. Exceedingly gay manliness is still condemned as the lived femininity, simply associated to un-manliness. Homophobic violence increases; going out as a gay-couple, exposed gay or as fag is avoided because of the threat possibly arising from it. According to these violent conditions the “own” concepts of manliness developed within guy subculture, which apparently acquire fixed ideas about manliness, transforming and paraphrasing these. Gays could therefore be seen as an example, how hegemonic and by that homophobic masculinity is reframed progressively. Looking at the gay scene of today I however ask myself: where are the fags?

Gays are discredited because of living (alleged) femininity, discredit themselves within gay contexts in many cases. Especially fags are considered as a masculinity not to be lived out on any account. Connected to that is the rejection of other forms of being: poncy, fat, disabled or trans*.

But does manliness reproduce patriarchal conceivability about manliness automatically? Or is gay manliness always subversive manliness breaking with heteronormative notions of gender?!

The lecture will focus on several gay manlinesses and analyze them. A connection will be established between the history of the Gay Movement (in Germany) and today’s situation of the (non)political gay subculture. The applied standard for the conducted consideration will be fag-political. The speaker is a polit-fag from Göttingen, and holds a B.A. in gender sciences and is active within leftist HomoTrans*-activists-groups.

6 PM Sex is Not the Enemy with Yvonne Wolz

Pornfilm festivities, Dildoworkshops, Sexparties – being sexpositive, meaning an offensive, open-minded attitude towards sexuality and her varieties has gained importance over the last years in many queer-feminist contexts and seems to be omnipresent in some cities. It gives a possibility to live different (sexual) roles, than only those provided for WomenLesbianTrans* within society, and it is an empowerment-strategy. For some this means to be confronted by even more pressure and standards and to have the feeling of being different or narrow-minded when you are not having hip, cool or even no sex at all. Especially to people who experienced sexual violence it can happen, that free-spaces don’t make them feel safe anymore. The lecture will be about this fine line, its chances and risks as well as the consequences for queer-feminist practice. Adjacent there is time to exchange experiences and discussion.

Open for WomenLesbianTrans*Intersex.

Sex Positive is a strategy for marginalized gender like WomenLesbian, who are often accused by others to have a passive and lust-ill sexuality. Furthermore it’s about sensitizing the queer-feminist / Ladyfest Scene appropriating Sex Positivist Strategies. For this reason, we decided to limit the matter of the lecture to WomenLesbianTrans*.

6 PM Illegalized Immigrants within Paid Household Work with Alex Harstall from Azade Bonn

In more and more middle-class households women gain personal equality and men gain release

from household-work through migrants, who left their home country as a result of neoliberal globalization and growing poverty. 4.35 million households are estimated to cede private maintenance to a third person – in 99% of the cases without paying any social security benefits. Is this the imperative of the device “equality for the elite – housework for the people” coming from other countries preferably? Is the emancipation of women within industrialized countries an “imperialistic illusion” (Rommelspacher) which increasingly exploits immigrants? Why is the gender conflict sourced out and avoided by the employment of cleaning- and household staff? How can we become part of the resistance and prevent to become part of the problem?

Alex Harstall, born 1977 in Bucharest is a founding member of MediNetz Bonn, the Medical Conveyance Centre for Fugitives, Migrants, people without Documents (www.medinetzbonn.de) and engages in intercultural girl-work www.azade.de.

7 PM Noise-Performances

CHALKWALK Franziska Windisch – soundperformance, 10 min.

A piece of chalk is attached to a microphone. Draught along the floor a white line is left behind. The sound originating from it is amplified and recorded and as soon as the line is finished, played back. Simultaneously a new line is drawn over the already existing one.

Franziska Windisch (*1983) has studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne since 2005. In her works she concentrates on sound recording, motion within time and space in terms of formalization and transference. Different aspects of the transforming methods are explored by installations, concerts and research performances.

Diana Combo (1983) Aveiro, Portugal

As EOSIN, an anagram of noise, Diana Combo has been creating long textures made of lock grooves, vinyl noises and other samples, adding field recordings from various sources in a parallel layer. 
She has played in Cologne, Moers and Barcelona. During the performances, the improvisation part comes from mixing records real time while playing pre-recorded and edited sounds from software to which she applies some changes during the act.
She is currently based in Berlin, where she works as an assistant to an electronic musician.

Tina Tonagel (Cologne)

Tina Tonagel is a visual artist from Cologne specialising in kinetic and mechanical sculptural works. She’s also the initiator of the overhead-based festival and workshop-outfit “Kunst und Musik mit dem Tageslichtprojektor” with Christian Faubel, Cordula Körber and Ralf Schreiber.

8 PM Open Stage, Andromakers, Jo Snyder (AZ or Bauwagenplatz “Wem gehört die Welt”)

Open Stage: For one hour you are asked to present yourself, we look forward to your registration (these will have priority).

Andromakers (South of France)

Between Trance and Dream

Jo Snyder

Jo Snyder is one of “the” singers / songwriters of the Punk / Indie Scene of Winnipeg. Together with John K. Samson (Weakerthans / Propagandhi), Todd Kowalski (Propagandhi / I Spy), Paul Furgale (Painted Thin / Sixty Stories), Stephen Carroll (Weakerthans / Painted Thin) and Chris Hannah (Propagandhi), she belongs to the most active and versed artists of Winnipeg / Canada of the 90ies. Beyond doubt innumerable PopPunk hymns from her two bands ‘Sixty Stories’ and ‘Anthem Red’ belong to the classics of this genre. After 3 LPs and 5 tours through Europe, countless gigs in North America and after the unexpected end of Anthem Red at the end of 2007, Snyder decided to take a break in the middle of 2008, to leave Winnipeg and to visit a renowned school for journalists in Vancouver in the scope of her studies. Hereupon she prepared six month for her theses and for moving to Toronto. Post-graduated in the beginning of 2010 Snyder quit her musical break to come to Europe in March/April 2010 (as she already did end of 2007) as a solo artist.

The course is set and two exclusive songs recorded for a tour EP and along as a Tour 7″. Charming but raucous singer- / songwriter ballads about life, incomprehensible injustice and the hope against hope to be able to change anything are centre themes of her songs. Snyders influences are Julie Doiron, Amy Milan and musically not unalike would be Johnny Cash, John K. Samson, or (acoustic) Cardigans. Notable hereby is especially her distinctive voice, which formed all bands until today.

11 PM Gender Suicide with Ismailova (70ies and 80ies Disco, Funk and Soul) + Zwölf Stühle (twelve chairs) + Open Juggle (for participants of the Dj_ane workshops)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th

2 PM “Institutionalized” Women’s Work (open panel discussion / Workshop)

The development, goals, possibilities and constraints of established women’s work is matter of this affair. For that purpose we invited three institutions (Lobby for Girls, 2. Autonomous Women’s House, Women against Violence e.V.) to introduce themselves and to give an overview about their work, their politics, conflicts, and their history, before we ask further questions and discuss together. The idea is to strengthen the lively exchange between different generations and fields of activities of feminists.

2 PM Trans* – transphobia – trans*support for beginners and advanced (w.i.r. – radical trans*networking NRW)

The term “trans” has been hovering about the left scene for quite a while, however many cannot embark upon this term or rather think, it is “only” a critique against the binary gender system. Others know trans*people in their surroundings but are insecure in their behavior towards them. If you are interested to learn a bit more about trans*; if you want to know what transphobia/transhostility really is and how it expresses itself and if you ask yourself, how you can be actively solidary with trans*people (with concrete persons or within your environment or all in all), you are exactly at the right event. To also be able to react on concrete questions of people, who don’t want to ask them within a big circle, we will install a “letter box” at _fest, where you can dispose your questions. This means, you can use the event to add questions you would not ask due to empathy at a party or a glimpse friend, just because the person happens to be trans*.

3 PM Two Tears for Barbarella

The Cologne Trio has recently returned from England to contribute a set of Grunge-Indie-Pop. Eerily wonderful are the pieces about broken hearts, rape-revenge-fantasies and pseudo-leftists. For fans of PJ Harvey and Sleater-Kinney.

4 PM Psychiatry and Gender with Alva Dittrich (University of Bonn)

6 PM HTML with Esra Uyanik

6 PM Living and Cultivating differently in queerfeminist day-to-day practices with Frederike Habermann.