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September 24-27

At work... Temporary free spaces – Reni Hofmüller

Spaces temporarily freed by Reni – street intervention
Poliphonic Orchestra – performance
Appropriation as an artistic practice with political background – presentation
Important places for a history of women

The discussions, presentations and performances that took place over four days included topics such as: the necessity to create some spaces free of the ideology of the profit, the importance of an attitude aware of the political significance of everyday gestures, the relation between gender and technology, the role of free software and open source in promoting the freedom of information, women as content producers in the field of culture and technology, etc. The contents of the discussions were not established in advance but they were decided together with the participants in a democratic, non-hierarchical situation.
The photo documentation realized during these discussions was used for a symbolical appropriation of the space of the city, of locations in Bucharest that have an importance for the alternative history of women.
Another way of showing the necessity of the appropriation of the public space, which belongs less and less to each of us was the street intervention Spaces temporarily freed by Reni. During this intervention a street with large-windowed empty shops from Lipscani area (a central area of Bucharest in the process of gentrification) was marked for a very short time as a possible space for action, an open place, truly public, a space that proposes as a hypothesis the possibility of being more creative and free.
The performance Poliphonic Orchestra involved musicians and people who have nothing to do with music in an „orchestra” that created a democratic space in which people who don’t know each other are working together and each separate voice can be heard.

Reni Hofmüller, based in Graz is an artist, musician, composer, performer, organizer and activist in the fields of (new) media technology usage and of their political importance in general, engaged in the development of contemporary art and convinced that thinking makes a difference.