[-empyre-] geuzennamen

[blakkbyrd <blakkbyrd@yahoo.com.au>]

From: Renee Turner <geuzen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: [-empyre-] Tactics and Strategies


Or another example, we have been archiving the negative names for
women over several years (ranging from the virgin to the whore)  and
have turned them into a set of T-shirts sold in our webshop.  Our net
stats show us that people often come to our site because they are
searching for porn. (their keywords reveal them ;-)  And oddly
enough, they linger.  We actually get teenagers that email us because
they want to add to our list of words, or they want to buy a T-shirt.
(sorry this project is in Dutch but hopefully you get the idea:
http://www.geuzen.org/current/geuzennamen/ ) In a way, through mis-
recognition and the vernacular of the web, our work can move across
unfamiliar territories or finds itself viewed in unconventional
registers.


Dear Renee

I've looked at this project and would like some more information,  
please.

How is it empowering for women to have you collect insulting terms  
for women from teenage boys and then market the results on  
teeshirts?  Please direct me to the appropriate feminist theory.

I'm also intrigued how you would propose getting such an 'artwork'  
past Australia's anti vilification and anti-discrimination laws?

This looks like a red light district tourist trap to me.

blakkbyrd
[from amsterdam]



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