Is There a Women’s Issue in Our Country?

sound work, 11:15, 2017

Is There a Women’s Issue in Our Country? is a sound work in which parts of the text from the reports and plenary sessions of the Central Committee of the Women’s Antifascist Front (AFŽ) of Yugoslavia are used. The voice of a nine-year-old girl from the present intervenes in the past, activating the political potential of the ideas and problems that characterized the women’s AFŽ movement and the ideological situation of the socialist period from which it emerged. The soundtrack reflects and connects gender, social and cultural contexts and the process of emancipation that began in socialism and is still on-going.

Voice: Petra Tadić
Postproduction: Studio St_Iva, Iva Stanišić

The work was created within the exhibition Comrades – Women’s Movement in Montenegro 1943-1953. The author used materials from the magazines of the Women’s Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia and Montenegro: Žena danas (woman today) and Naša žena (our woman). The title is taken from the report by the President of the AFŽ of Yugoslavia Vida Tomšič “Is there a women’s issue in our country?”, published in the magazine of the AFŽ of Yugoslavia – Žena danas, No. 3, 1952.