« FPR » #5

Round Table II: 21:00-22:00pm (in English) ++++++++++++++++++++ Eva Kietzmann (Bildwechsel Berlin), Maria Mohr (Pro Quote Regie Berlin), Chris Köver (Missy Magazin), The panel discussion will be moderated by Tamara Atanasoska. +++++++++++++++++++ The talks are curated by Bianca Ludewig. +++++++++++++++++

Perspectives and limits of subcultural diversity +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Is everything that glitters really gold? For example the visibility of women and men as an ambivalent dimension. +++++++++++++++++++++++ female:pressure, the international network for women in the electronic music scene, club culture and digital art, is dedicated since 1998 to a collective revision of female representation. f:p aims to show that women are just as much or differently active than men, even if their achievements are less acknowledged or even forgotten. Women in the field of contemporary music are notoriously underrepresented. Hence, the members of female:pressure are calling today anew for a sharper look at the statistics: in Germany, the epicentre of electronic music, just as in so many other countries, a women quota of 10% is nowadays above the average. This is confirmed by the newest f:p facts, which will be used as introduction to tonight’s discussion. +++++++++++++++++ f:p is looking for more diversity in the line-up of events, festivals and labels – more diversity in terms of gender, age, class, cultural identity, or (dis)abilties. The matter of responsibility and equal rights is nowadays more crucial than ever, due to the current version of flexibilised global capitalism, which is continuously causing more disparities and inequalities. Economical standards are being applied to all life sectors and citizens are asked to take over social responsibility. Girls and women are intensively affected by this. Even gender mainstreaming and feminism seem restrained by the neoliberal gender regime (usage and reinterpretation of feminist vocabulary in state institutions, pop-culture, new feminism, or diversity management). How are we as female artists, music producers or cultural workers dealing with this pressure? +++++++++++++++ f:p intervenes in the current debate over the increasingly precarious labour world, asking: how useful or necessary is networking and communication in the scene and beyond it? Where are the boundaries and which are the special dynamics of the prised networking? Another central topic for f:p is visibility. But one could ask if visibility also functions as an ambivalent parameter? Are there visibility regimes involved? Which type of women or men become visible through which cultural practices? And what is being put in the shadow? The f:p team has invited various representatives of the Berlin groups and females networks to have a discussion on this. How can we make use of data? Where do our concerns and interests converge? What is our criticism of the status quo and how did we articulate this so far? What are the strategies that increase visibility? How can we mobilise individual experience to everybody’s advantage? How can we link intercultural, subcultural, social and feminist criticism? To what questions is our feminist, critical and subcultural knowledge responding to?