Years: 2017

WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany

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WOMEN IN THE DARK | Germany | 2017

project partners

Antje Krüger
President of the nonprofit Association WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany e.V.
Former Coordinator for institutions in the context of domestic and sexual violence, Bayern
Former Referent Women & Family, der PARITÄTISCHE Bayern
Munich
women-in-the-dark@aufruhr-des-schweigens.org

GERMANY
Patricia Kielinger
Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials
Former Coordinator Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen (BIG e.V.)
Berlin
kielinger.witd@gmail.com

Kunstareal-Fest


Participatory Sewing Process


WOMEN IN THE DARK at the GIVE ME 5 Pavilion (headed by Miro Craemer) in cooperation with the art education of the Pinakothek der Moderne (headed by Pia Brüner)

WOMEN IN THE DARK | BR24 (Bayerische) Rundschau | 16 July 2021

watch online: Bayerische Rundschau

Miro Craemer, Franziska Greber and Pia Brüner

WOMEN IN THE DARK Switzerland

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WOMEN IN THE DARK | Switzerland | 2017

project partners

Andrea Wechlin
Director
Correctional Facility for Women, Hindelbank, Canton Bern
Former Coordinator Violence Prevention & Co-Head of the Women Shelter, Lucerne
Lucerne
andrea.wechlin@aetap.eu

Suna Kircali
Co-Management
Avanti Donne, Association – Advocacy Group for Women and Girls with Disabilities
Uster
suna.kircali@avantidonne.ch

2017-2021
Judith Hanhart
Former head of Department Social Policy & Advocacy
AGILE.CH – The organizations of people with disabilities
Former head of the Bern Intervention Center against Domestic Violence, “pom”
Berne

events
Basel

Basel | Switzerland | 2018

Introducing WOMEN IN THE DARK | Symposium Trauma by Domestic Violence
Town Hall | Basel | Switzerland | 7 June 2018

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St. Gallen

St. Gallen | Switzerland | 2017

Launching WOMEN IN THE DARK

Organizers:
– Canton of St. Gallen, Coordination office Domestic Violence: www.sg.ch/home/sicherheit/haeusliche_gewalt.html
– Domestic Violence Shelter St. Gallen: www.frauenhaus-stgallen.ch/
– Association Friends for Kashmir: www.freundefuerkashmir.ch/

WAVE OF VOICES

WAVE OF VOICES | 2017
steel  | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500x700x400 cm

Black Boards | 2017
100 x 200 cm

selected texts by women from India

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

WAVE OF VOICES | 2017

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Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata | India | 2017


Solo Show
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 | India

the whole exhibition

ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600cm

Vernissage

RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000x600cm | fiberglass | 50×20cm

Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; 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 | 2500x700x400cm

Black Boards | 2017
100x200cm

selected texts by women from India

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

PHOTOS | 2017
Writing Process | different Sizes
&
WOMEN | 2017
Video | 30:00 min
Women from India read what they wrote on their Dupattas

BOOK | 2017
216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – each Page of the Book shows one Text, written by a Woman from India

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MAKING OF
Video | 05:20 min

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CURATOR
Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata

 
ADVISORS
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata

OPENING SPEECH
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 | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India

RESISTANCE

RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000 x 600 cm | fiberglass | 50×20 cm

Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall

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Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata | India | 2017


Solo Show
in collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director  SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization committed to ending Violence against Women and Children | Former Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata | India

the whole exhibition

ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600cm

Vernissage

RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000x600cm | fiberglass | 50×20cm

Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; 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 | 2500x700x400cm

Black Boards | 2017
100x200cm

selected texts by women from India

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

PHOTOS | 2017
Writing Process | different Sizes
&
WOMEN | 2017
Video | 30:00 min
Women from India read what they wrote on their Dupattas

BOOK | 2017
216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – each Page of the Book shows one Text, written by a Woman from India

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MAKING OF
Video | 05:20 min

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CURATOR
Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata

 
ADVISORS
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata

OPENING SPEECH
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 | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India

ECHO

ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600 cm

ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600 cm

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Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata | India | 2017


Solo Show
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 | India

the whole exhibition

ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600cm

Vernissage

RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000x600cm | fiberglass | 50×20cm

Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; 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 | 2500x700x400cm

Black Boards | 2017
100x200cm

selected texts by women from India

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

PHOTOS | 2017
Writing Process | different Sizes
&
WOMEN | 2017
Video | 30:00 min
Women from India read what they wrote on their Dupattas

BOOK | 2017
216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – each Page of the Book shows one Text, written by a Woman from India

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MAKING OF
Video | 05:20 min

more details

CURATOR
Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata

 
ADVISORS
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata

OPENING SPEECH
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 | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India

CUT THE ROPES

UNTOLD STORIES
500 white shirts | metal construction | fabric | red thread | 6 shirts with texts by women from China | Ø 300cm

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2017 | Crossroads Center Art Space | Beijing |  China

Solo Performance

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Solo Performance in Collaboration with NGOs, Woman Rights Organizations & UN Women China

For my art installation UNTOLD STORIES, 500 white shirts were tied together with thick ropes to form a huge globe. There are only a few shirts lying on the ground that are connected to the globe with a thin line of blood. This pile of shirts found their way out of the harmful prison of silence that is the globe, which allowed them to be written on.

We are here today to portray our determination to break the silence of women affected by all kinds of gender-based violence and discrimination.

The event is intended to show and confirm China’s social and societal support for these women, the seriousness of the violence, and the commitment to end it. It allows the WOMEN IN THE DARK to express themselves and assures them that people want to hear what they have to say. The act of cutting the ropes by members of NGOs and human rights organizations helps the shirts fall down and “frees“ them from being held back. These shirts will be picked up by professionals and handed out to the women who want to speak out.

In 2016 China created their first law against domestic violence. This law is very politically significant; however the cultural roots of domestic violence still need to be changed in order to remove pressure and dramatic consequences for the women. Women need to feel safe to report violent husbands and family members to the police and to seek separation from their abusers.

Franziska Greber
Artist & Psychotherapist
Switzerland

WOMEN IN THE DARK SPEAK OUT

ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600 cm

RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000 x 600 cm | fiberglass | 50×20 cm

ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600 cm

Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; 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 | 2500x700x400 cm

Black Boards | 2017
100 x 200 cm

selected texts by women from India

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

WAVE OF VOICES | 2017

PHOTOS | 2017
Writing Process | different Sizes
&
WOMEN | 2017
Video | 30:00 mins
Women from India read what they wrote on their Dupattas

BOOK | 2017
216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – each Page of the Book shows one Text, written by a Woman from India

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2017 | ECHO, RESISTANCE & WAVE OF VOICES | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata | India

Solo Show

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In collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director  SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization committed to ending Violence against Women and Children | Former Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata | India

Summary of my Speech at the Opening

Curator
Dr Jayanta Sengupta
Director
Victoria Memorial Hall
Kolkata

 
Advisors and Supporters
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan
Design | Scenography | Art
Kolkata

Opening Speech
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999
Kolkata

Making of Video

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Video | 5:20 min