a film by ff. Feministisches Fundbüro
2019, 20min, HD, colour, stereo, de/en
ff. Feministisches Fundbüro is a collective whose artistic research focuses on queer-feminist archival politics, history, work, and emotions. It takes care of things lost by their authors, owners, and minders and gives them a place in feminist historiography. Its current members are Malu Blume, Andrea Haas, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Franzis Kabisch and Juliane Saupe.
Palais, pavilion, patriarchy—the ff. Feministisches Fundbüro takes the venue of the exhibition, the Palais Eschenbach, as its starting point for an artistic exploration of feminist stories of protest. We pay special attention to the history and present of feminized precarious work, which is still made invisible and devalued.
Our collective engages in several site-specific investigations and interventions in the city. We forge bridges between the Palais Eschenbach, which the later Österreichische Gewerbeverein (Austrian Craft and Trade Association) had built in 1872, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which uses the basement and ground floor of the building as an exhibition space from 2019, and the Prater, where the Vienna World’s Fair organized by the Gewerbeverein took place in 1873—an imperial major project of the monarchy that also included the presentation of the Pavilion “of Women’s Labor.”
We move from the Prater to the Archives of the Women’s and Lesbians’ Movement, from conversations in our living rooms to the Palais Eschenbach, from Silvia Federici to various futures and back to the present. The same question crops up at all points: which connections are there between women labor made invisible, women’s and men’s labor movements, and queer care, or how may such connections be established?
a film by ff. Feministisches Fundbüro
2019, 20min, HD, colour, stereo, de/en
ff. Feministisches Fundbüro is a collective whose artistic research focuses on queer-feminist archival politics, history, work, and emotions. It takes care of things lost by their authors, owners, and minders and gives them a place in feminist historiography. Its current members are Malu Blume, Andrea Haas, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Franzis Kabisch and Juliane Saupe.
Palais, pavilion, patriarchy—the ff. Feministisches Fundbüro takes the venue of the exhibition, the Palais Eschenbach, as its starting point for an artistic exploration of feminist stories of protest. We pay special attention to the history and present of feminized precarious work, which is still made invisible and devalued.
Our collective engages in several site-specific investigations and interventions in the city. We forge bridges between the Palais Eschenbach, which the later Österreichische Gewerbeverein (Austrian Craft and Trade Association) had built in 1872, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which uses the basement and ground floor of the building as an exhibition space from 2019, and the Prater, where the Vienna World’s Fair organized by the Gewerbeverein took place in 1873—an imperial major project of the monarchy that also included the presentation of the Pavilion “of Women’s Labor.”
We move from the Prater to the Archives of the Women’s and Lesbians’ Movement, from conversations in our living rooms to the Palais Eschenbach, from Silvia Federici to various futures and back to the present. The same question crops up at all points: which connections are there between women labor made invisible, women’s and men’s labor movements, and queer care, or how may such connections be established?