FIFTITU% - The network of women* in art and culture on Austrian women's politics

FIFTITU% is Austria's only networking and advice center for women* in the arts and culture. We spoke to them about their work, problems in Austrian women's policy and a year of black/turquoise/blue austerity, but also why good women's policy is not dependent on political color.

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Gabriela Gordillo is a sound and visual artist. For Gordillo,sound is used as an extension of the senses connecting matter and mind, and thus part of a whole. She describes process of making "music" or "sound art" as a collateral effect of working with instruments, with a noisy or raw aesthetic bounded to their mechanisms. Her material varies from recordings, sampling, generative synthesis, electronics, the body and the act of listening, that blends in a personal imaginary.

Gabriela Gordillo held sound performance in July at the Haager Noisetage in Haag, Lower Austria. Soon after, we met in Linz, where we discussed her sound art practice, influences, female sound artists and her plans.

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Dear friends, cooperation partners and members!
FIFTITU% is taking a summer break from July 28 to September 1, 2019.
We will be back for you as usual from September 2.

With feminist greetings

Oona Valarie Serbest
and the FIFTITU% board team

In the current 52-minute radio program we hear numerous text interventions by: Daniela Brodesser, maiz - Autonomous Center by & for Migrants: Sex&Work section, Julia Pühringer, Elisabeth Murhammer, Tobias Humer, Wiltrud Hackl, Susanne Mayrhofer and Abena Twumasi.
In between, the results of the second women's report of the City of Linz can also be heard.

squeezed up

In memory of the Linz architect and artist Gabriele Heidecker, the Green Party of Linz awarded the Women* Art Prize for the seventh time this year. This was initiated and endowed by City Councillor Eva Schobesberger.

We are visible! Feminist interventions on the Linz Women's Report

Meeting point: 8 pm (sharp!) Linz main square / Neptune fountain

Women's suffrage was fought for 100 years ago, the abortion solution 40 years ago, in 2019 Austria had a female chancellor for the first time but never a female president. On average, women* in Austria still receive 43% less pension and in 2016, women* in Linz only earned 61% of the gross salary of men* in Linz. Linz has never had a female mayor and throughout Austria there are more mayors called Josef than female mayors in total. These are just some of the facts that prove that women* are still structurally disadvantaged in Linz and that both their demands and their promotion must be taken seriously!

We cordially invite you to the 2nd Linz Dyke March!

This demo traditionally takes place one day before the big Pride to once again draw special attention to the visibility of women* who identify as lesbian, bi, pan, genderfluid / trans and who (also) love women/*.
This year also specifically flint people in the community, drag kings* & sex workers. Allies also welcome.

Meeting point: June 28, 7 pm, Hosi Linz (Schillerstraße 49)
We will then walk quite punctually towards Hauptplatz (Schillerstraße - Südtirolerstraße - Landstraße - Hauptplatz) and merge with We are visible ! Feminist interventions on the Linz Women's Report.

We look forward to seeing you! Let's March, Dykes*!

In the current issue, we focus on articles on the topic of "100 years of women's suffrage in Austria". We broadcast excerpts from the opening of the exhibition 100 Years of Women's Suffrage - "They mean it politically", which took place in the Old Town Hall in Linz at the beginning of May.

We are many

Our society is a pluralistic assembly in which many different interests come together. Coexistence in a democracy must be renegotiated on a daily basis: It is about everyone, about each individual as a being of many possibilities.

We see art and culture and their institutions as open spaces - spaces that make diversity and ambiguity tangible.

In Austria, art has already been defamed as degenerate. Art and culture were misused for inhuman propaganda purposes. People were devalued, robbed of their livelihoods, persecuted, expelled and murdered. As art and cultural actors in Austria, we are aware of the responsibility resulting from history.

FIFTITU% initiates, demands and promotes free spaces and sees itself as a driving force in the cultural shaping of participation and equality:

• FIFTITU% is a public forum for artists, cultural workers and cultural managers
• FIFTITU% is a clearly audible mouthpiece that draws public attention to the quality and scope of female* cultural production
• FIFTITU% demands that political decision-makers take cultural and women's*political measures to improve the framework conditions for women* in terms of production, presentation and reception
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