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Action in
Silence
I don't want militarisation
in my life
announcement
Action in Silence committee and FAAB are proud to announce
the inauguration
exhibition.
This exhibition focuses on the gender conscious antimilitarism
movement in
the post-9.11 Japan.
The exhibition consists of document photographs, pamphlets,
fliers, posters,
clothing and other items used for protest activities which
are installed in
chronological order. Video documentation, interviews
and performances (see
the special events) will be also shown.
In the past, male oriented anti-war movement focused on
national and
international politics and organising mass demonstrations
in which everyone
shouted the same slogans. Women's role in this movement
seemed to be
largely
limited to that of the anonymous participants or that
of the "peace loving
mother" .
But recently, there is different, more gender conscious
anti-militarism
movement. For example, Kyoto Joshi-demo started
a demonstration organised
by
girls in which they express their concern about effects
of militarism in
their daily lives. Women in Black stand at street
corners in silence.
Their
silence is stark contrast to the usual slogan shouting
and issue debating.
Great Japan Anti-War Women in Black League is a parody
of Great Japan
Women's
National Defence League during the Second World War.
It questions the
women's role in the war and violence and at the same time
provoke the
memories of victimisation of women and children in Japan
during the war.
These are done mainly by women, but they all welcome participation
of either
sexes.
The war is over, but all is not well.
The reality seems that violence is the ultimate solution.
We hope through art and this exhibition we can continue
to express our
unwillingness to submit ourselves to violence.
Action in Silence committee
FAAB
Thanks to: Women
in Black Tokyo(and elsewhere), Kyoto Joshi demo.
Exhibition information:
Date: May 31 - June 7
Time: 12:00 - 19:00
Opening party: May 31, 19:00-
Place: Pa/F Space
Shinjuku-ku Baba-shitacho, 18, Phoenix building 3F
Across the street from "Ana Hachi-man" shrine,
opposite to Waseda U. literature dept.
2 min. from subway Tozai line "Waseda" station
Event schedule:
June 1 "We don't want
militarism in our lives"
14:00-17:00
admission 800 yen
discussion with Motoyama Hisako(Women in Black Tokyo),
Mizushima
Nozomi(Kyoto Joshi demo), Shimada Yoshiko(FAAB)
June 7 "Big Head" -video showing
and talk with Denise Uyehara from LA.
19:00 - 21:00
admission 1,000 yen
4th generation Japanese (Okinawan)-American artist, Denise
Uyehara
will show a video of her new work about attack on Arab
Americans during
Iraqi
war. Discussion follows.
June 8 Performances
17:00-
admission 2,000 yen
"Tears" by Ono Nonko
"Insane Body" by Ito Tari
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FAAB (Feminist
Art Action Brigade) !
We would like to announce the inauguration
of FAAB, the newest feminist art
organization in Tokyo.
"Feminism? Isn't it dead?"
Well, no. In the past decade or two, we thought
modernism is dead, history
is dead, etc., but old habits die hard. While we
thought ideologies
weredead, Imperialism, colonialism, and militarism all
made great comebacks.
The bad old patriarchal system is more alive than
ever. They have become
unapologetically ruthless. Faced with this harsh
reality, we think
feminism
is still one of the few ideals we can hang on to in order
not to be
completely disillusioned by the state of the world today.
We know there are
many different versions of "feminism". Our version
of feminism is made
clear
in the statement below. We would like to stress
that our feminism is not to
expand the rights of the "biological female".
"All we need is Action!"
FAAB is not a fraternity club. We are a brigade
of artists who use our
artistic expression as weapons. We don't have one
"commander", instead,
whoever plans a project is responsible for the completion
of that project.
Our current projects are:
"ACTION IN SILENCE" exhibition in which documentation
of world wide
anti-war,
anti-imperialism movement will be shown along with performances
and
installation.
"MINI QUEER SHOW" a preparatory exhibition for a big international
queer
show
in the future.
Whoever or whatever group which want to do something with
us, participate in
our events, support FAAB, be on our Mailing list, please
get in touch with
us.
e-mail (English OK) yoshimada@aol.com
http://www.egroups.co.jp/group/FAAB-net/
Ito, Tari
Lim, Desiree
Nishimura, Yumiko
Ono, Nonko
Shimada, Yoshiko
Takahashi, Fumiko
Yasuda, Kazuyo
(in alphabetical order)
FAAB Manifesto
FAAB questions the prevailing social and artistic value
system.
What is valuable art and who can be artists?
Rather than making a pyramid shaped value system, can
we make a horizontal
system in which we all express ourselves equally and freely?
We think feminism is still one of the most useful and
practical ideals to
make this happen.
What we call feminism here is not a movement for increasing
women's equality
to men.
What we call feminism is for all, not only for the biological
female.
We think that patriarchal system is pretty much responsible
for the current
awful world of violence and greed, but we are not a negative,
"anti-male"movement at all. Rather, we seek for
A better, equal system for
all.
We will work with minority people, groups, individuals
who are striving to
make a change in the prevailing mainstream social system.
Our action is not confined in the so-called "cultural"
activities.
Culture is closely connected to society, nation, world
politics. We are not
afraid to be political as well as artistic, at the same
time.
Membership
Each member can participate in the mailing list.
Projects are planned and decided by the project committee,
which now
consists
of the above members. Those who want to be in this committee
must present
his/her own project and act as the responsible person
to realize the
project.
Correspondence:
FAAB
Fenicks build. 3F
18 Babashitamachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo Japan
??e-mail yoshimada@aol.com
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Women in Black Tokyo
http://home.interlink.or.jp/~reflect/WIBTokyo/home.html
FAAB http://www.egroups.co.jp/group/FAAB-net/
GAAP (Gender and Arts Project)
http://home.interlink.or.jp/~reflect/GAAP/index.html
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Information obtained from:
Fatima Lasay
digiteen@ispbonanza.com.ph
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