July 7th

Antigoni Theodorou

July 5th

Vera Varlamova

How to play?

July 4rth

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou

July 2nd

July 1rst

June 30th

June 29th

By Olia Sosnovskaya:

I am writing this in Vienna, Austria. Due to the total neglection of the coronavirus pandemic by the Belarusian president A. Lukashenko, who refused to imply quarantine and orders to lower the official statistics (if you follow it – just don’t trust it) and the number of tests, the situation there is really frightening. People and businesses crowd-fund for medical supplies. Every time I hear and read about someone of my friends’ relatives, colleagues and friends being sick or dead. At this moment, Belarus is rated with the highest coronavirus risk by the Austrian government. It is unknown when we would be able to move between the Schengen borders more or less ‘freely’ again, even if having visas.

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June 27th

A Trip to Dagestan, by Victoria Lomasko:

https://drawingthetimes.com/2016/victoria-lomasko-trip-dagestan/?fbclid=IwAR289csjJEZSyODlnRaslFk3j_IucXiBl6Ejqqv9eVE_pza8QJfktudBVvg

By Nagrane Narva:

https://hopeisnohome.tumblr.com/

June 26th

by Nicola Schüschke:
At the moment I am trying to understand the phenomenon of „Heimatroman“, a sub-genre of the German “Groschenroman”(dime-novel). Even if this kind of pulp literature seems absurdly outdated, it is being read widely throughout this country. People read them in order to get distracted, as the end is always a happy one, there’s nothing much you can miss. They are perfect to make yourself think that there are no problems in this world other than choosing between the rich and the beautiful. The stories follow strict rules: no politics, no sex, no surprise! They are full of reactionary images, submissive sexism and romanticized nationalism. Especially the cover images show what it’s all about: on most of the novels there’s a young couple or a girl smiling in the middle of nature. Even the colour-schemes often include the colours of the German flag. Absurdly, the Heimatroman is being published in higher numbers that any other books in Germany. I asked myself what kind of story the main author of German fiction, Angela Merkel, would write about. I figured out, it must be about „Grenzenlose Liebe“ – endless love, love without borders.
Still – even if Horst Seehofer doesn’t seem to come up with another volume of prose but just repeats his same old verses – I don’t lose hope that there are at least some others out here who have other ideas about “Heimat” than a flirt with the hunter on a castle in Bavaria!

June 25th

Today we continue with our marathon with Batoul Baty Sedawi:
Women are the most vulnerable to injustice in the war-torn countries, but in my country, the injustice will be doubly unfair as they are subjected to the worst kinds of torture and rape in the prisons, and after their release, they are ostracized by their families and society where they are considered to have brought shame to them.
النساء هم الاكثر تعرضا للظلم في البلاد التي تعاني من الحرب، لكن في بلادي سوف يكون الظلم مضاعفا حيث انها تتعرض لابشع انواع العذاب والاغتصاب في المعتقلات، وبعد خروجها تتعرض لنبذ من قبل اهلها ومجمتع حيث تعتبر قد جلبت عار لهم .

video:

by Baty Sedawi

June 22nd

Today we continue with Lada Nakonechna‘s work:
This project took place on the different streets of Zurich. People were proposed to create the secure place by delineation their own territory using yellow chalk (this color signs public space places which are privatised). At the end the chalk circle makes people immovable inside.

June 20th

This day is dedicated to The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation, Athens.

https://www.facebook.com/Το-Σπίτι-των-Γυναικών-για-την-Ενδυνάμωση-τη-Χειραφέτηση-1452231711753592.

Here comes the message from Shayan, one of the former detainees of the Petrou Ralli prison, please, take the time to hear the witness of Europe today:

link to Shayan’s message

A small fragment from the zine by Shayan, she and others from the community of The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation publish and distribute it for those who are still in prison:

Letter of Denunciation: human rights activists and everyone else, please, don’t let this document pass your attention.

Our initiative ‘The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation’ is part of the anti-authoritarian solidarity grassroots movement. We are a self-organized feminist collective opposed to all states and borders, political parties, public or private institutions and NGOs. We are committed to the struggle for women’s emancipation and the end of gender based and racial violence, homophobia, transphobia, sexism and the trafficking of women and children that is reproduced by the machinery of patriarchy globally. For almost 4 years, we have been meeting with detained women, starting our visits at Εlliniko and then at Petrou Ralli. We listen to detainees’ stories and demands and document the problems they face, attempting to answer their questions and give voice to their denunciations. At the same time, we try to foster and sustain a broader local and international social network of solidarity with other individuals and collectives through organizing events around imprisonment and other gender issues. We work to build and strengthen our relationships and empower one other, even after women are released from the detention center. Together we struggle for our liberation.

FOR THE BREAKDOWN OF BORDERS, THE ABOLITION OF DETENTION CENTERS, PRISONS & CONCENTRATION CAMPS,
AGAINST THE PANDEMIC OF PATRIARCHY,
SOLIDARITY AND SELF ORGANIZATION ARE OUR WEAPONS
Email: spiti.gynaikon@gmail.com
Fb: Το Σπίτι των Γυναικών, για την Ενδυνάμωση & τη Χειραφέτηση

Some photos from the process: The House of Women for Empowerment & Emancipation is making their poster for The Economy of Borders action…

June 19th

By Sarah Kwasnicki:

Arrival without landing My daily arrivals: home, Schlesische 27, Neue Nachbarschaft// Moabit, friends, garden – where I feel safe, full, grounded, where I feel strong and loved. I arrive because I see my future and I want to stay. People who flee blocked from arrival. Violence at the borders, people held against their will, under inhumane conditions. Once the European border is crossed, the decisions come from above – if you’ll stay, if you’ll be deported, where you’ll to live, what you are permitted to do, what will be denied of you. A container, a fence, no voice, no choice, – on repeat – that’s not arrival. The right to live, the right to vote, the right to work, the right to move, the right to home, the right to friendly neighbors, the right to be together, the right to a garden, the right to learn, the right to be seen, the right to be heard, the right to love, the right to peace, the right to happiness, the right to a bathtub, the right to arrival We are living in privilege that we don’t want to see.

Heute mit Sarah Kwas

Ankommen statt Unterbringen – Tagtäglich komme ich an – zu Hause, in der Schlesischen 27, in der Neuen Nachbarschaft// Moabit, bei Freunden, im Garten, … – kurzum, an Plätzen, wo ich mich wohl und sicher fühle, wo ich geerdet bin, Kraft tanken kann, das Miteinander genieße. Ich bin angekommen, weil ich weiß, dass ich eine Perspektive habe und bleiben will. Tagtäglich wird Menschen auf der Flucht ein Ankommen verwehrt. Sie werden gewaltvoll an Grenzen aufgehalten und es bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen zu verharren. Und wurde die Europäische Außengrenze überquert, wird von oben herab entschieden, – ob du bleiben darfst, ob du abgeschoben wirst, wo du leben musst, was du zu tun hast, was dir verwehrt bleibt. Und wieder, ein Container, ein Zaun, keine Entscheidungsgewalt, keine Stimme, keine Perspektive – das ist kein Ankommen. Ein Recht auf Wohnen, ein Recht auf Wählen, ein Recht auf Arbeit, ein Recht auf Umziehen, ein Recht auf zu Hause, ein Recht auf nette Nachbarn, ein Recht auf Miteinander, ein Recht auf Garten, ein Recht auf Lernen, ein Recht auf Anerkennung, ein Recht auf Liebe, ein Recht auf Frieden, ein Recht auf gute Laune, ein Recht auf Badewanne, ein Recht auf Ankommen. Und wir leben unsere Privilegien, erkennen sie nicht und treten sie mit Füßen.

June 17th

Clara Stella Hüneke

The documentary „Parko“ deals with an occupied space which used to be a commercial parking spot and got transformed into a lively green park during the uprising of 2008 in Athens. It delivers an intense view on life during the crisis and we see the collective in a dialog about self-organisation and a city from below. The film accompanies their assamblies and see how they are organized, how the place got squated and why they believe in a collective space. It highlights one microcosm fighting against capitalism with an open space for everyone.

Website: www.parkofilm.net

https://www.facebook.com/parkofilm/posts/1877301739211791

Clara Stella Hüneke Leave Noone Behind

June 16th

We continue our Marathon with Nadira Husain! Nadira is installing this week her exhibition with two other artists Amina Ahmed and Varunika Saraf at Heidelberger Kunstverein which will open on Friday. And she sends us these images:

Marina Naprushkina

June 15th

WISH is a non-mixed group of 10-15 women refugees and activists on the island of Lesbos, Greece. We were born in different places, we have different ages, experiences, dreams and fears. But we share the idea that solidarity is our best weapon.

Most of us live in the refugee camp of Moria, others in the camp of Kara Tepe or in Mytilini. We have been working on the island for two years. We create spaces of resistance in this world full of walls and borders, full of prisons, racism, sexism and injustice. Resistance means mutual support, care of the others and respect.

Since the beginning of this year the increase of violence -xenophobia, racism, COVID-19, and systemic neglect of those seeking asylum – threatens the lives of people on the move and those in solidarity. This worsen the already harsh situation in the island’s refugee camps, where there are currently more than 20,000 people without access to any basic right. In this context, it has become more evident than ever that our main strength is our links, which allows us to adapt and continue.

Poster by WISH

“We are the face of the refugee woman.

We are the young women who live in Moria.

Also the old ones, the single ones and their kids.

We are those who try hard.

We are those who lost themselves, we don’t know who are we.

We are our future, but we lost our hope.

We thought me were humans, now we know we are refugees.

We are those supposed to have rights.

We are strong.

We are together, we hold each other to change our moods.

We are the ones who walk together.

The ones who stand together.”

Facebook page: @wishlesb

Email: wishlesbos@gmail.com

Solidarity Box in Sisterhood

June 14th

Vanessa Gravenor: Sicherheitsbesessener Staat   June 13th

We would like to introduce Uma Gаdzieva and her book “Grandma”. Heute möchten wir Uma Gаdzieva vorstellen und ihr Buch “Oma”, das sie für ihre Mutter geschrieben hat. Das Plakat für die Ausstellung basierte auf einer Zeichnung zum Buch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 12th We would like to introduce our participant Yevgenia Belorusets: we are so happy about her participation! Coinsidentially, simultaneously, she was awarded the HKW International Literature Award 2020 for her book “Glückliche Fälle”. The book has been published by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin. This reading is in German, but we invite you to meet Evgenia on the parasemantic level:

Yevgenia Belorusets is a photographer and writer and lives in Berlin and in Kyiv. She is the co-founder of “Prostory”, a journal for literature, art and politics, and a member of the interdisciplinary curatorial group “Hudrada”. Her works move at the intersection of art, literature, journalism and social activism, between document and fiction. Her artistic method was established in her long-term projects such as “Gogol Street 32”, which portrayed the residents of a communal apartment building during their daily activities in a slowly decaying living environment, or in the project “Victories of the Defeated”, which included series of documentary photographs, texts and interviews and was dedicated to the coal miner communities, which continued to exist in Eastern Ukraine on the very edge of military conflict. To accomplish this work Yevgenia Belorusets visited between 2014 and 2017 cities near and in the warzon of Donbass Region in Ukraine. In 2018 / 2019 she has published a book of stories called Fortunate Fallings (Shchastlivyie padeniia) about women living in the shadow of the now-frozen, now-thawing conflict in the Donbass region, caused by Russian military intervention after the Kyiv Maidan of 2014. The publishing hous Matthes & Seitz issued it in Germany in 2019.

Yevgenia Belorusets, 2020

June 11th

Today we post a letter and two paintings from Raha Amiri:

Raha Amiri, Batwoman, 2020

Raha Amiri, Burnt Nest, 2020

Greeting and regards
With respect to all
I am Raha Amiri 24 years old from Afghanistan i have a girl she is 8 years old we are in Greece, Moria.
I would like to talk about my experiences. My work is about beauty and art with women. I am really exited sharing my paintings and my feelings to “The economy of borders” with all of you. “Burnt Nest” is one of my paintings about all human around the world who lost their home and their family. So I wanted to share my feelings sympathy with these people. My second painting is “Batwoman”, about all women who have forgotten their power and considered themselves weak. I shared my feelings about refugees with paintings because each of them has embraced their sad possessions stories. How beautiful it is to be in solidarity, understand each other, so we all end up in this house whose name is the world so we dont forget to give love and affection to each other. Let’s build a beautiful world for a big family because we are a family in the world.

Thanks to the friends who efforts hard for this beautiful program wish for victory and peaceful

My contact instagram: raha.tattoo1995
Facebook: raha amiri