SATURDAY, 31 MARCH 2007, 19 h

Faces mailing list members, introduced by Valie Djordjevic (D) & Diana McCarty (USA/D) 

at the Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs
Austrian Association of Women Artists
Maysedergasse 2
1010 Vienna

2007 is the ten year anniversary of the Faces mailing list. The  Austrian Association of Women Artist invited us to celebrate it during their exhibition "Cyberfeminism past forward".

One of the starting points of Faces were the Face Settings dinner events organized by Kathy Rae Huffman and Eva Wohlgemuth at diverse locations throughout Europe. The project created informal settings that invited women to come to the table for a good meal and to discuss their work (an archive of the project can be seen here). Both Kathy and Eva lived in Vienna at the time and so the city plays a role in the founding of the list. We would like to mark the ten year of our existence by looking back at the beginnings and talk in informal interviews about what has changed in the past ten years. We would like to invite old and new Faces members to tell about their experiences of the last ten years and about their plans for the next ten years. What do women want to achieve? What are the strategies? Where can we find lines of collaboration? Tyeing in with the past we would like to combine this interviews with sharing meals with the participants and the audience - even going as far as preparing the food together.

The presenters of this event are Diana McCarty and Valie Djordjevic, two of the founding members of Faces.