Pants Wear Skirts

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The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994

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Pants Wear Skirts explores the Erfurt Women Artists' Group, founded in 1984 under Gabriele Stötzer's influence. This collective challenged GDR's rigid societal norms through a decade of radical creativity. Their work, encompassing experimental Super 8 films, live performances, and fashion-object shows, defied conventional gender roles with wit and defiance. Costumes served as provocative alter egos, blending audio, dance, and literature. Their activism peaked in 1989 during a historic occupation of the Stasi headquarters, initiated by group members.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is ideal for readers interested in feminist art, GDR history, and underground cultural movements. It appeals to enthusiasts of gender studies, experimental film, and political activism through art.

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Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stötzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over a period of ten years. Subversive, witty, borne of a liberating sense of defiance against normative gender roles, their artistic expressions provide an insight into the little-known feminist subculture in the GDR.

Their pioneering role in terms of an exploration of female identity is particularly reflected through five experimental Super 8 films, subsequent live performances, and fashion-object shows. Often unfolding intuitively from sequences of audio, dance, and literary elements, self-created and provocative costumes that served as alter egos of the artists took centre stage.

Their political commitment culminated in December 1989 in the first occupation of a Stasi, State Security Service, headquarters, initiated by five women, three of whom were part of the group.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775752589

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 March 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 200 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Sonia Voss
Edited by Susanne Altmann
Edited by Kata Krasznahorkai
Designed by Klimaite Klimaite, Berlin
Edited by nGbK Berlin
Edited by Franziska Schmidt
Edited by Christin Müller

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 195.0mm

Height: 265.0mm

Weight: 780g

Pages: 256

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

The ERFURT WOMEN ARTISTS' GROUP remained active with personnel changes-Monika Andres, Tely Büchner, Elke Carl, Monique Förster, Gabriele Göbel, Ina Heyner, Verena Kyselka, Claudia Morca Bogenhardt, Bettina Neumann, Ingrid Plöttner, Marlies Schmidt, Gabriele Stötzer, Harriet Wollert and others-until 1994.