Voices of Courage and Sorrow – ‚WOMEN IN THE DARK‘ in collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization | Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017 steel | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500 x 700 x 400 cm
Black Boards | 2017 100 x 600 cm selected texts
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
ECHO | 2017 fabric | chicken mesh | 2500 × 600 cm
VERNISSAGE
RESISTANCE | 2021 fabric | chicken mesh | 2000 x 600 cm | hand of fiberglass | 50 × 20 cm
Anouradha Kapoor; Franziska Greber; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall
PHOTOS | 2017 writing process | different sizes & WOMEN | 2017 Video | 30:00 min women from India read their texts
BOOK | 2017 216 transcribed texts translated into Englisch
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CURATOR Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata
OPENING SPEECHES Nabaneeta Dev Sen | writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999 | Kolkata Anuradha Kapoor | Director and Founder | SWAYAM | Kolkata | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India
ADVISORS Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata
Voices of Courage and Sorrow – ‚WOMEN IN THE DARK‘ in collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization | Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata
RESISTANCE | 2021 fabric | chicken mesh | 2000 x 600 cm | hand of fiberglass | 50 × 20 cm
Anouradha Kapoor; Franziska Greber; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall
ECHO | 2017 fabric | chicken mesh | 2500 × 600 cm
VERNISSAGE
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017 steel | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500 x 700 x 400 cm
Black Boards | 2017 100 x 600 cm selected texts
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
PHOTOS | 2017 writing process | different sizes & WOMEN | 2017 Video | 30:00 min women from India read their texts
BOOK | 2017 216 transcribed texts translated into Englisch – written by woman from India
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CURATOR Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata
OPENING SPEECHES Nabaneeta Dev Sen | writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999 | Kolkata Anuradha Kapoor | Director and Founder | SWAYAM | Kolkata | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India
ADVISORS Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata
Voices of Courage and Sorrow – ‚WOMEN IN THE DARK‘ in collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization committed to ending Violence against Women and Children | Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata
RESISTANCE | 2021 fabric | chicken mesh | 2000 x 600 cm | hand of fiberglass | 50 × 20 cm
Anouradha Kapoor; Franziska Greber; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017 steel | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500 x 700 x 400 cm
Black Boards | 2017 100 x 600 cm selected texts
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
PHOTOS | 2017 writing process | different sizes & WOMEN | 2017 Video | 30:00 min women from India read their texts
BOOK | 2017 216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – written by a woman from India
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CURATOR Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata
OPENING SPEECHES Nabaneeta Dev Sen | writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999 | Kolkata Anuradha Kapoor | Director and Founder | SWAYAM | Kolkata | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India
ADVISORS Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024
walkable spiral | 6 questions on the wall | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking:
What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? What do we avoid? — What are my fears? What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
AND NOW … ? Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience. The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
SUPPORT THE POWER OF THE ARTS by Philip Morris GmbH BMU Veranstaltungstechnik | Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024
mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024
walkable spiral | 6 questions on the wall | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking:
What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? What do we avoid? — What are my fears? What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 700 pages | stone | wire rope
the book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany on their shirts – in the original language and the German translation
BACKSTAGE | 2024 China: Video | 03:07 min India: Video | 03:37 min Mauritius: Video | 02:31 min
AND NOW … ? Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience. The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
AND NOW … ? Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience. The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
SUPPORT THE POWER OF THE ARTS by Philip Morris GmbH BMU Veranstaltungstechnik | Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024walkable spiral with 6 questions | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking:
What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? What do we avoid? — What are my fears? What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 700 pages | stone | wire rope
the book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany on their shirts – in the original language and the German translation
BACKSTAGE | 2024 China: Video | 03:07 min India: Video | 03:37 min Mauritius: Video | 02:31 min
AND NOW … ? Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience. The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
AND NOW … ? Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience. The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
SUPPORT THE POWER OF THE ARTS by Philip Morris GmbH BMU Veranstaltungstechnik | Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024 steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024walkable spiral with 6 questions | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 700 pages | stone | wire rope
the book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany on their shirts – in the original language and the German translation
BACKSTAGE | 2024 China: Video | 03:07 min India: Video | 03:37 min Mauritius: Video | 02:31 min
AND NOW … ? Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience. The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
AND NOW … ? Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience. The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
SUPPORT THE POWER OF THE ARTS by Philip Morris GmbH BMU Veranstaltungstechnik | Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
an exhibition against sexual violence in conflict in collaboration with the United Nations Office in Geneva& the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum | Geneva
APART steel | red clothes | ropes | Ø 350 cm
Ambassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker, US Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva and Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Peter Maurer
STATEMENTS FROM VISITORS; RÉFLEXIONS DES VISITEURS
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum | Geneva | 12:00 min (in English & en Français)
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Palais des Nations | Geneva May Maloney (ICRC) | Alessandra Velluci (UN Geneva) | Francesco Pisano (UN Geneva) | Diane Boulay (US Mission) Video | 14:28 min
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS
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Cordula Droege | Moderator Chief Legal Officer and Head of Law, International Committee of the Red Cross
Survivor of conflict related sexual violence and member of the SEMA Network (Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence) | Panelist
Monica Ferro | Panelist UNFPA, Director Geneva office
Michel Anglade | Panelist Save the Children (Director and UN Representative, Geneva Advocacy Office)
STATEMENTS
Peter Maurer | President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Excerpt from the speech
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HOME | 2020 Steel | wood | bed covers | sheets | pillows | metal headboards | 200 x 200 x 330 cm
HOME should be a place of safety and retreat, trust and tranquility. But war, terror and violence force people to leave their HOME or it transfers to a place of fear, pain and horror. Many women and children and other vulnerable groups are humiliated, controlled and disempowered and devalued even in peaceful times. If HOME is out of balance, they are existentially threatened, especially if they choose the path to freedom. In times of particular strain, these existing processes are magnified and multiplied. Not only does the contempt for women dramatically increase, but also racism and homophobia.
(Photo: Doris Binda)
Franziska Greber & Nicolas Galladé | City Councilor of Winterthur
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR)
APART steel | red clothes | ropes | Ø 350 cm
Ambassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker, US Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva and Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Peter Maurer
UPROOTED
Palais des Nations | Geneva
UPROOTED dead tree | upside down | 800 cm x Ø 400 cm | Concrete base | 150 x175 cm
UPROOTED
Place du Rhone | Geneva
UPROOTED dead tree | upside down | 800 cm x Ø 400 cm | concrete base | 150 x 175 cm
UNIDIR Adressing Weapons in Conflict-related Sexual Violence
Cordula Droege | Moderator Chief Legal Officer and Head of Law, International Committee of the Red Cross
Survivor of conflict related sexual violence and member of the SEMA Network (Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence) | Panelist
Monica Ferro | Panelist UNFPA, Director Geneva office
Michel Anglade | Panelist Save the Children (Director and UN Representative, Geneva Advocacy Office)
Palais des Nations | Geneva May Maloney (ICRC) | Alessandra Velluci (UN Geneva) | Francesco Pisano (UN Geneva) | Diane Boulay (US Mission) Video | 14:28 min
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS
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Cordula Droege | Moderator Chief Legal Officer and Head of Law, International Committee of the Red Cross
Survivor of conflict related sexual violence and member of the SEMA Network (Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence) | Panelist
Monica Ferro | Panelist UNFPA, Director Geneva office
Michel Anglade | Panelist Save the Children (Director and UN Representative, Geneva Advocacy Office)
STATEMENTS
Peter Maurer | President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Excerpt from the speech
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