12th International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women

City of Women 2006 shall investigate the various meanings of history and memory. Situated on the intersection between our personal lives and collective culture, experience and memory involve both the individual and the social body. As a shared artistic and social practice, cultural memory links the present to the past. In doing so, cultural memory has strong ethical and political aspects. The arts are continuously engaged in non-linear processes of remembering and forgetting, characterised by repetition, rearrangement, revision, and rejection. A wide range of contemporary practices in art have recently attempted to create a place for individual voices and histories.<br> <br> The Festival will present around 45 women artists from Canada, USA, Croatia, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Germany, Serbia, Switzerland and Slovenia. The City of Women anticipates a fruitful interdisciplinary exchange. In attachment you can find this year s festival programme.<br> <br> More information will be found online (www.cityofwomen.org), since the CoWeb project City of Women Goes Web! will again join the (this time even more numerous) City of Women team into a team of authors who will provide daily on-line information about the Festival in words, images and sound. Our team will produce reviews of events in different languages, talk to the Festival guests, and ask visitors about their opinions and impressions.<br>