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   [Date]: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 16:55:46 +0200
   [From]: Brigitta Fritz <brigitta.fritz@chello.at>
     [To]: forum1@hkw.kbx.de
[Subject]: Woman's Art and Politic's Connection


Hello everybody,
 
We hoope that forum is going on.

I will be abble to translate all my Idees and projects in
english in the next half year. Art an Social are may important red line
in my live. Much of my power goes in womenprojekt an cultural projekts.

This was the information from yesterday:
ART an Politics of women(Theater, Multimedia, Music, Internet etc.)
We are looking for women they are interessting to cooperate with us.
Till the 8 of March the building should be finished
At 8 of March we want to start:
<Women 2000> more about this later in english


What is Link, what is Kosmos what about the Idea of womensroom:

KOSMOS = the space

LINK - IDEA

LINK is the combination of art and politics

LINK is public space explicitly dedicated to women

LINK  creates communications

LINK will help to understand the daily life situations of women, their
economic, political  and cultural contributions to society and their
claim to publicity and recognition.
It will help to examine, discuss and connect
Female aspects, give them artistic shape and test new thinking models 
within a representative and playful framework.

LINK - NEED

PURPOSE: women speak up, women represent themselves

AIM: Women do speak, women are in the picture
Women re-claim their part in history and presence,
men have a need for the female shares of life.

LINK will meet these needs and improve the communication between men and women.

Women need public space to make the relations and utopias of 
Female lives a subject of talk, and to represent  and connect their
political, cultural and artistic work.

LINK   in SPACE    -                                       
a place of meeting, sensual perception and creative communication, a
multifunctional, lively cultural space.
A former cinema, in the middle of a vivid cultural district,next ro
Spittelberg with Amerlinghaus and Filmhaus, near the Museumsquartier ,
Literaturhaus, several 
Stages and places of cultural interest.

Data:  850 m2 on three floors, hall about 220 m2,
5-6 m high,max. 200 seats, side rooms , office
conditions: restauration necessary

KOSMOS Frauenraum
Siebensterngasse 42
A-1070 Wien



4.LINK - REALISATION

There are artistic and political events on topics of central interest.
A previously fixed range of themes, a topic, scheduled for 2-3 months,
combines guest performances  of  artists and free  artistic groups  from
 home and abroad, co-productions and own productions  with  political
events and podium discussions, workshops, lectures and meetings


LINK  creates jobs and urgently needed space, where artists  from  the
fields of theatre, music, dance, action painting, performance,
installation, painting, new media   as well as scientists, teachers and
communicators etc  can exchange and present their ideas. It is aimed to
create connections  between the various fields. Women are given preference.
Men are offered a chance  to get deeper insight into the 
Daily life situation of women.

LINK  will cultivate  political and cultural exchange all over Europe,
create connections  und thus strengthen the position of women  and the
awareness of female problems  in the public. 
A cultural sub-structure and spreading effect are the basic requirements
for the realization of equal chances. 
Economic enterprises will be given the possibility to 
Positively identify with the emancipation and promotion of women. The
KOSMOS can be used to present projects for the promotion of women,
organize events, present products, award prizes , hold parties  and also
serves as a starting point to create  links to art and politics.

LINK  History

Cultural politics is social politics. Austerity measures, un-equal
treatment, unemployment, new poverty and discrimination  of women  often
find their correspondent  artistic and cultural expression, even if it
is by ignorance. The demand for public space and better integration  of
women into arts and politics.

If you want contact or german Information send a mail.
Greetings Brigitta Fritz