Four days dedicated to the female voice of rebellion and pleasure!

It all begins on Friday 11 September, with an evening lecture on the technological popularisation of the full anatomy of the clitoris, followed by a series of workshops at which everyone will lend their efforts to the mission of spreading cliteracy. At the lecture, participants will be introduced to how the clitoris has been addressed (and censored) in history and learn how sonograms and 3D printers prompted female artists from around the world to create artwork inspired by the shape of the clitoris.

During the workshop portion of the programme, attendees will learn how to make 3D-printed models of the clitoris and then draw it and create a character at the introductory workshop, which could even get published in the Clitzine!

After a fun yet educational weekend, the atmosphere will heat up when women’s experiences are discussed more widely and loudly. As part of the Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture project, Female Lives Louder will present three new artworks by female Croatian artists during guided tours through the streets of Rijeka.

The tour begins at 6 p.m. with the unveiling of Marina Mesar OKO’s mural, which is painted on a wall at 42 Vodovodna Street. The audience will then be led downtown to see Vlasta Delimar’s latest performance, performed on a balcony, which she devised together with girls from Rijeka, before finally heading to the venue of a new dance performance by the artist Josipa Bubaš, which will close the programme at about 9 p.m.

SCHEDULE

Cliteracy Weekend (11 – 13 September)

Friday 11 September at 9 p.m. – Lecture: The Technological Popularisation of Cliteracy (Karla Horvat Crnogaj)

Saturday, 12 September at 8 p.m. – Clitoris 3D printing workshop (Mario Pavlić)

You can sign up for five different time slots: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m., 2 p.m. – 3 p.m., 3 p.m. – 4 p.m., 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Sunday, 13 September at 8 p.m. – Clitoris illustration workshop (Tanja Blašković)

All Cliteracy Weekend activities will be held at Filodrammatica (28 Korzo Street). You can sign up to participate by contacting horvat.crnogaj@gmail.com by 8 September. The number of participants is limited and being familiar with 3D printing and illustration techniques (or the detailed anatomy of the clitoris) is not a prerequisite!

Female Lives Louder guided art tour

14 September at 6 p.m. at 42 Vodovodna Street, duration: up to 2 h

Sendi Bakotić, a female artist from Rijeka, will guide the audience in character as Super Clit from the unveiling site of the new mural by the artist OKO to the venues of new performances by Vlasta Delimar and Josipa Bubaš in the public space of the city of Rijeka.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES

With the mural “Is she a wizard already?”, which is inspired by motifs hand-embroidered by elderly women who were masters of their craft, the female artist OKO draws attention to the importance of our collective ethnological heritage at a time when consumerist pop culture is ravenously devouring everything in sight. By setting up traditional motifs as contemporary street art interventions in the public space of an almost forgotten street near the city centre, the artist deftly juxtaposes the past and the present by emphasising our historical heritage, which is imprinted in all of us and which we so readily forget by succumbing to various fads.

On this tour guided by the artist Sendi Bakotić, we follow Super Clit, the oversized anthropomorphised version of this otherwise invisible and (historically) concealed organ, on a walk through the city. This guided walk takes the audience from the unveiling site of the mural and through the city centre to Korzo, where they will see a performance that vocally deconstructs norms.

In continuation of her earlier practices, Vlasta Delimar tackles gender stereotypes and educational and cultural prejudice. Together with girls from Rijeka, she has mapped out, collected, and analysed prejudicial and stereotypical statements that hinder and confine women while seemingly attempting to educate and socialise them. The artist and her collaborators will perform a piece called Rapunzel, which is visible (and audible) in the public space of the city as they position themselves inside of it using both their bodies and many decibels.

With her new dance performance Immersion, Josipa Bubaš addresses the vague, unspoken, female and socially-conditioned feelings of guilt, responsibility and burden, as well as implicit wisdom, strength and pleasure. The author utilises words, the body, voice and images to comment on marginal and marginalised emotions, impressions, thoughts and inherited patterns by considering the position of women within a social context and in intimate acts.