Cordula Ditz, They Speak to Us in Dreams, 2024, Videostill
Feminist Wikipedia writing workshop
with a lecture by Sonja Eismann (Missy Magazine) and Wikimedia
Sa, 9.11.2024, 2–5:30 pm
Participation is free
Registration via e-mail until 27 October to: register@kunsthaushamburg.de
The vast majority of art historical sources were written by men about men, and this phenomenon subsists in the digital age. For example, in 2023, still only eighteen percent of English-language articles on Wikipedia covered biographies of women, and only around twenty percent of all articles were written by female authors according to internal statistics.
As part of the presentation of Cordula Ditz’s video and sound installation They Speak to Us in Dreams, which is based on intensive research into the invisibility of women in art history, participants will compose articles on women artists of the past and present who were or are active in Hamburg, in order to increase their visibility on Wikipedia.
Lectures by Wikimedia and by Sonja Eismann, journalist and co-founder of Missy Magazine, will provide input for the workshop. In her talk, Sonja Eismann will combine the stories and foundations of feminist journalism with the practice of Missy Magazine and show where connections could be drawn to a contemporary approach to a knowledge resource that really wants to be there for everyone.
The participants will then become active themselves. Research material on selected female artists will be provided in cooperation with the organizers of the exhibition The New Woman at the HFBK Hamburg and can also be contributed by the participants themselves to write about female artists of their choice.
Please bring your own laptop and if needed research material.