The right to vote for women now seems to us an obvious right. However, we have to remember that women did not obtain it until the end of the 19th century. Before only men could vote. The first country to grant women the right to vote was New Zealand in 1893. Austria has granted it only in 1918 and France in 1946. This 100 years anniversary raises a lot questions.
What is the evolution of the women’s vote? When we look at voter lists, are women the majority? If so, how to explain the current evolution? If they register and vote, it means that the current situation suits them. This means that few women manifest the will to be in the Spotlight and lead. Why?
One of the most powerful women in the world governs Germany. However, in the Bundestag the proportion of women has fallen again since the 2017 federal elections, from 36 to just over 30 percent. If we look at the different political parties, which one has the most women in positions of responsibility and in positions to obtain mandates through elections? And the questions is the same as far as the number of women represented in other high-level public offices is concerned.
When one considers this reality, one can perhaps come to the conclusion that progressivity is the fruit of a minority. On the subject of minorities, there is another minority of women who are not often mentioned and who are active, who participate in the life of society: all foreign women living in Austria. What does Austrian and European legislation say about their ability to participate in public life and debate? When they are non-Austrian but European and when they are not Austrian but not European
***PROGRAM***
Doors open: 19h
moderated by ULLA PILZ | Austrian radio journalist (ORF), singer, cabaret artist and music educator for radio and TV. Since 2015, she is senior lecturer at the University of Graz.
CONCERT
*KOEHNE QUARTET | founded in 1987 by Joanna Lewis, counts as one of today’s outstanding interpreters of contemporary music in continental Europe
JOANNA LEWIS Violine
ANNE HARVEY-NAGL Violine
LENA FANKHAUSER Viola
MELISSA COLEMAN Violoncello
Guest Artists:
*ERIC ABROGOUA : Performance : “Fuck Codes and Containment” | has been developing his practice as an artist and performer working around gender, identity, uprooting and displacement.
*GOD´S ENTERTAINMENT/KARL WRATSCHKO : Art –installation | collective which transcendates conventions of theatre. GE works in the area of performance, happening, visual arts and sound. Their work confronts Austria´s political and cultural identity.
DISCUSSION PANEL
*AMANI ABU ZAHRA | studied philosophy and intercultural studies at the University of Vienna and Salzburg. She is a writer, activist and public speaker.
*DENISE VANDECRUZE | computer engineer and documentary artist, especially interested in the ways that race and nationalities are connected in the collective imaginations and how this plays out in the lives of black people living in Europe.
*GERD VALCHARS | political scientist with a research focus on citizenship and electoral rights, migration, the Austrian and the European political system.
*TIM VOSS | Künstlerhaus Wien artistic director.
moderated by
*FRANÇOIS LUAKABUANGA | freelance webdesigner and online communication consultant.
*DJ FLO REAL | FLO REAL's musical roots can be found in soul, disco and the boogie funk sound of the 80s.
Eine Kooperationsveranstaltung von: Künstlerhaus, Grüne Bildungswerkstatt Wien, Chateau Rouge, Association (CH)AMBER, Kulturen in Bewegung und "Dis-Othering Beyond Afropolitan & other Labels", a Creative Europe collaborative project. Thanks for the support of Brunnenpassage.
