February 25, 2014
Ahoy Amsterdamers and those passing through – on March 7th Perdu and the gifted Joost Baars will present SONDERBAUTEN, my project about government and state-based use of rape and gender-based war crimes, focusing on the rape brothel at Dachau and other concentration camps. SONDERBAUTEN just ended its 5-month solo exhibition at the Jüdisches Museum Berlin | Jewish Museum Berlin.
I’m appearing via live video projection, and Joost will be presenting, discussion and sharing the work live via projections and lectures…a combination of the poems, photographs, films, and performance documentation. I am very deeply honored to have the work shared and discussed in such company.
NOTE: I’ll be talking a bit about my ongoing and increasing frustration with rape brothels being referred to as sites of “forced prostitution,” in particular in the publicity and journalism surrounding the museum exhibitions of the project over the past year in Berlin and Munich. Prostitution is the sale and commerce of sexual acts. Rape is sex without consent. They could not possibly be more different. Forced prostitution is a euphemism that fails to accurately represent situations in which humans are raped for profit. Despite my contractual requests to the contrary, this wrongful phrase continues to be used in conjunction with
Located in Amsterdam, ‘Stichting Perdu‘ is a literary foundation interested in new developments within the field of prose and poetry, in avant-garde forms of literature of the 20st Century and in crossovers between literature and other art forms. We mainly focus on certain aspects of literature that remain under exposed within the mainstream literary scene.
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Dichter en programmamaker Joost Baars zal beeldend werk van Quintan Ana Wikswo (New York City, VS) uit haar Sonderbauten-project (2011-heden) bespreken en een interview met haar houden. Het fotografische werk, geregistreerd met camera’s die in concentratiekamp Ravensbrück geassembleerd zijn door gevangen joodse vrouwen, spreekt op meerdere niveaus over zowel deze arbeiders als de groep vrouwen die in bordelen tot seks gedwongen werd. Op 21 april a.s. opent voor het eerst in Ravensbrück een permanent museumonderdeel dat aan deze seksuele mishandelingen aandacht besteedt.