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\nTadej Poga\u010dar, CODE:RED, Red Umbrellas March, Venice, 2001, C-print, 147 cm x 193 cm (each, 4 pcs), ed.: 1\/3 + 1 A.P.<\/span><\/p>\n
Panel discussion<\/strong> Opening<\/strong> Introduction:<\/strong> The\u00a0Red Umbrella Struggles\u00a0<\/em>is an international group exhibition that revolves around the controversial and multifaceted topic of sex work. The show takes its inspiration from two newly commissioned projects by Edith-Russ-Haus\u2019s 2018 Media Art Grant holders, Petra Bauer and Daniel Jacoby. Both artists are interested in investigating the topic through strategies of collaboration and dialogue.<\/p>\n Rather than merely representing and picturing sex workers and their industry, the artists of this exhibition, through means of conversation, move the emphasis from voyeurism or victimization to questions of dignity and rights. In acknowledging that sex workers are experts on their own lives, these artist projects look at how the complexities of gender, migration, and labour are involved in this battlefield of ideologies.<\/p>\n The various political and moral discourses on sex work tend to deprive sex workers of their voice\u00a0and pose difficulties to their attempts to differentiate and shape their own identities.<\/p>\n Red Umbrella\u00a0Struggles\u00a0<\/em>pictures the social struggle of this marginalized profession, which is mirrored in the mutual support likewise involved in the artist collaborations. The title of the exhibition references the international\u00a0symbol of the sex workers\u2019 rights movement, the red umbrella, which was first used\u00a0in 2001 during a performative\u00a0event organized by the Slovenian artist Tadej Poga\u010dar for the 49th\u00a0Venice Biennale.\u00a0The Red Umbrella March\u00a0<\/em>was part of Poga\u010dar\u2019s complex and long-running participatory project\u00a0CODE:RED<\/em>,\u00a0which researches and discusses various aspects of sex work as a\u00a0specific parallel economy. The project, which started\u00a0in 1999 and is still ongoing, is represented in\u00a0its entirety within the framework of the exhibition.<\/p>\n Red Umbrella Struggles\u00a0<\/em>pictures artists\u2019 attempts at dialogue, listening, and understanding in relation\u00a0to sex work and sex workers through a variety of mediums, including photography, archival\u00a0materials, installations, and documentaries.<\/p>\n
\nWednesday, 17 April 2019| 5 p.m.<\/strong>
\nwith Petra Bauer, Stewart Cunningham & Sally Green (SCOT-PEP), Daniel Jacoby, Tadej Poga\u010dar, Lilla Sz\u00e1sz<\/p>\n
\nWednesday, 17 April 2019| 7 p.m.<\/strong>
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\nWelcome:<\/strong>
\nDr. Nicole Deufel<\/strong>
\nLeiterin des Amtes f\u00fcr Museen, Sammlungen und Kunsth\u00e4user<\/p>\n
\nEdit Moln\u00e1r & Marcel Schwierin<\/strong>
\nDirectors Edith-Russ-Haus<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/arhiv.zavod-parasite.si\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/thumbnail-300x300.jpg\")
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