BODY OF WORK is the first publication of the feminist collective FAK.
It is devoted to the linkages between body and work: The significance of the outer appearance on
the labor market has increased, our body is supposed to represent our adaptability as well as our
individuality. We are surrounded by others who are speaking the body language of success, assuring
us that we can make it just as far as long as we work hard enough on ourselves. This makes us dream
of social advancement, but while our surface shimmers and glows the appreciation of our work is often missing.
In the cultural and creative sector we produce artworks, texts, furniture and clothing, we make our
private households look as representable as our homepages while we’re simultaneously clicking on the
‚attending‘ button for the next exhibition opening. But is all of this work or hobby and where does
wage labor begin? Where is the line between passion and self-exploitation?
BODY OF WORK discusses the work on and with the body and asks for the possibilities of emancipation.
With the publication FAK begins to search for the potential of our body as a means of opposition and
subversion and examines how ideals of resistance are often reused as empty slogans and undermined by
capitalism. Is emancipation even possible in this cycle and what is the price we have to pay for it?
Is ironic affirmation the only remaining solution?
Within this issue, a dynamic arises between assertion and appearance, between theory and practice,
between a stance of subversive refusal and radical advocacy, between a collective body of FAK and
the work of each individual. Instead of solving contradictions FAK wants to celebrate its Body of Work
in all of its ambivalence.
The magazine contains work submissions by:
Mona Altmann, Lisa Bergmann, Bless, Lisa Bor, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Hannah Cooke, Klemens Czurda, Carmen Donet Garcia, Kerstin Drechsel, Ahu Dural, Lotte Meret Effinger, Susan Funk, Ulrike Gerhardt, Guerilla Girls, Hasan Halilovic, Katrin Hassler, Johanna Hoth, Anja Kaiser, Jonas von Lenthe, Hanne Lippard, Lucija Matić, Katrin Mayer, Isabel Mehl, Michaela Melián, Seraphine Meya, Karin Michalski, Grażyna Roguski, Romy Rüegger, Stefan Schweigler, Martha Schwindling, Selene States, Rebecca Stephany, Eva Tatjana Stürmer, Tatjana Turanskyj, Lene Vollhardt, Antonia Wagner, Paula Winkler and Ulrike Zöllner.
FAK (Feministisches Arbeits-Kollektiv) engagiert sich für
die Chancengleichheit der Geschlechter. Anlass zur Gründung des
FAK war der geringe Anteil der Frauen im Lehrstuhl der Hochschule
für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. In unserer Arbeit vereinen sich verschiedene
Disziplinen: Wir sind junge Künstler*innen, Philosoph*innen, Designer*innen und
Kunstwissenschaftler*innen. Über zahlreiche Aktivitäten wie
Plakataktionen, Konzeptbars, Symposien und Vorträge versuchen wir seit 2012,
Sichtbarkeit für unser politisches und gesellschaftliches Anliegen zu schaffen.
FAK fordert neue Ordnungen, durchlässige Strukturen, Blickverschiebungen
und die Umsetzung bisher ungedachter Möglichkeiten.