\nCasa Punto Croce, Venice
\n24 \u2013 30 October 2021
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Twenty years have passed since the first international presentation of the CODE: RED project at the 49th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. The audience was presented with the 1st World Congress of Sex Workers and New Parasitism in the Pavilion of Prostitutes (Padiglione delle Prostitute), a tent set up next to the Giardini Park in Venice between 6 and 8 June 2001. The final part featured a public performance, The Red Umbrella March. The congress participants from Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Italy, Germany, Australia and the USA strolled with red umbrellas through the streets of Venice, from the Giardini to the A+A Gallery, where the official Slovenian pavilion was located. This action became legendary. Since 2001, the red umbrella has become an icon and an international emblem of the rights of sex workers worldwide. Today, it symbolizes the protection from abuse and intolerance that sex workers face on a daily basis. It is also a symbol of strength and resilience.<\/p>\n CODE: RED (1999 \u2013 present) is a long-standing collaborative project that problematizes and explores the models of the informal economy, self-organization of urban minorities, global sex work, and human trafficking. It includes various forms of joint work and collaboration with experts, activists, and the public, including research, activation, self-help, and public manifestations. The presentation at the Venice Biennale was organized by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art and the NGO Comitato dei Diritti Civili delle Prostitute of Pordenone, one of the leading organizations fighting to protect sex workers in Italy.<\/p>\n The Umb\u0259lla project, curated by Agnese Reginaldo, celebrates and praises what has been achieved over the last twenty years while also reflecting on what still needs to be learned for a better future for the sex workers community. But one thing is certain: Where art and activism combine, a powerful instrument of resistance and self-determination can emerge.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n EVENT CALENDAR<\/p>\n Saturday, 23 October 2021 Sunday, 24 October 2021 From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.<\/strong>: Opening of the Umb\u0259lla exhibition. Presentation of the CODE: RED project by Tadej Poga\u010dar. Performance by Nicole De Leo (LGBTQIA + activist). Followed by a presentation of the book and project\u00a0United Under a Red Umbrella<\/em>\u00a0by Mariska Majoor and Robin Haurissa. The exhibition brings a projection of two video works:\u00a0CODE: RED Sex Worker\u00a0<\/em>(2001\u20132002) and\u00a0CODE: RED Venice, 1st<\/sup>\u00a0World Congress of Sex Workers and New Parasitism\u00a0<\/em>(2002). In addition, the books, publications and newspapers of the CODE: RED project will be on view. A series of photographic works by Mariska Majoor and Robin Haurissa, entitled\u00a0United Under a Red Umbrella<\/em>, brings the voice of global activism. The book of the same title was published by the Prostitution Health Centre from Amsterdam in 2019 and brings seventy photographs and thirty-two interviews with sex workers from thirteen countries.<\/p>\n Saturday, 30 October 2021 <\/p>\n The exhibition will be on view every day between 12 noon and 6 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the anti-covid policy, the number of visitors during the events is limited. To visit, sign up at email\u00a0<\/strong>casapuntocroce@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/arhiv.zavod-parasite.si\/slo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pohod-Benetke_1-1024x685.jpg\")
\nTadej Poga\u010dar, CODE:RED, The Red Umbrella March, Venice, 2001<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/arhiv.zavod-parasite.si\/slo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pohod-rdecih-deznikov-Benetke-2001-1024x768.jpg\")
\nTadej Poga\u010dar, CODE:RED, The Red Umbrella March, Venice, 2001<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Press conference with Daniela Mannu (curator), Tadej Poga\u010dar, Hermine Letonde Ablawa Gbedo and Anita Garibalde (CDCP Management Board).<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>At 5 p.m.<\/strong>: Participants\u2019 assembly in front of the Santa Lucia stop. From there, a parade with red umbrellas will head to Campo San Giacomo dell \u2019Orio for the opening of the exhibition at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>At 6 p.m.:\u00a0<\/strong>Finissage.
\nRelease of the publication\u00a0Naked and Organized. Sex Work as Practice and Representation<\/em>\u00a0by Agnese Reginaldo. Followed by\u00a0Puttanesca<\/em>\u00a0and a projection of images of global activism. Closing-night party: DJs Silvy and Matteo.<\/p>\n