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Some impressions from the Feminist Repair Café | NGBK Workshop
Thanks to all who came to the Feminist Repair Cafe on Saturday, 21. May, and big thanks to the No play – feminist training camp group for making it possible! (check the Facebook event)
On Saturday, 21. May I organized the first feminist Repair Café in the exhibition space of the NGBK, Berlin. With experts Elektra & Flora Könemann.
Together we tried to repair small appliances like broken radios, lamps, headphones, tea kettles, CD players, hand blenders, mobile phones, etc (no printers / TVs / amplifiers – because there is not enough time and we don’t have the appropriate tools). Every participant could bring 1 to 2 broken things.
*** Why a Feminist Repair Café? ***
Without the volunteering “experts” the Repair Cafés would not exist. But unfortunately there is still too often the case that men are reinforced as experts of soldering iron and women in repairing the sewing machines. In our Feminist Repair Café we want to break these gender structures and create a space where women, lesbians, Inter and Trans* people would also engage and stand in the foreground of the electric field and act as “experts”; where they help each other in repairing stuff and inspire others to take on this otherwise male dominated area.
More about the No play – feminist training camp:
https://noplayfeministtraining.wordpress.com/
www.noplay.ngbk.de /
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/no-play-feminist-training-camp/
For more general information about the Repair Café movement see:
http://repaircafe.org/
https://www.reparatur-initiativen.de (Germany)
Podcast TV
This is a broken TV I found in the street. I connected the old, but still functioning, speakers to a new amplifier so that we could use the hole object as an Audio Installation for the No-PLAY Feminist training Camp exhibition in the NGBK. This will be use to play the Podcasts that will be produced during the feminist training camp, from 21. Mai to 24. Juni 2016.
21 Mai 2016 | 12-17h: Feminist Repair Café in the NGBK
Repairing electrical appliances, figuring it out together (dt/eng).
Helpers: Elektra, Flora Könemann & Birte Gerstenkorn (Flirtefunk) & me.
More infos and registration:
http://ngbk.de/
https://noplayfeministtraining.wordpress.com/
facebook event
Japanese manga artist Saori Oguri in the Repair Café
Saori Oguri came to the Repair Café and interviewed me and other voluntary helpers in the Repair Café. She is writing/ drawing her new graphic book, it is about all those interesting projects in Berlin that are very special (or new) from a Japanesse point of view.
Introducing the Repair Café for the Palestinian Association for Empowerment and Local Development – REFORM
The Palestinian Association for Empowerment and Local Development – REFORM has started, with the support of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the first Innovation Hub in Ramallah, Palestine. Read More
Alles für die Müllhalden? Globalisierte IT Industrie vs. lokale Strategien | 16.08.2014
In August 2014 Julia Otten from Germanwatch e.V. organized a two day event about throw away society and about local initiatives fighting it. They made a visit to my atelier where I talked about the Repair Café as a strategy against planned obsolescence and the growing amount of electrical waste.
Here you can find the more details.