by starsky
15.03.2025 – 28.03.2025
Opening: 14.03.2025 | 18:30
At the opening, Tina Kult, Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic, and starsky will speak, followed by a feminist discourse.
Closing: 28.03.2025 | 18:30Jamsession at die Feminismusmaschine with Mimu Merz, starsky, and special guests.
Opening Hours
Fri, March 14 | 18:30h – open end
Sat, March 15 | 15:00 – 19:00h
Fri, March 21 | 18.30 – 21:00h
Sat, March 22 | 15:00 – 19:00h
Thu, March 27 | 17:00 – 20:00h
Fri, March 28 | 18:30h – open end
Or by appointment with starsky at booking@starsky.at
A sentence can burn itself in. It can settle, provoke, and set things in motion. It contradicts, interrupts, and connects with others. Die Feminismusmaschine is a collection of such sentences and statements, build in apparatuses that blare, rattle, and scream. They are toys, instruments, and disruptions all at once—rejecting the exhausting repetition of patriarchal arguments. In a participatory act, one can activate the machine, rub the colorful knobs, press the golden keys, and stroke the crocheted genitals. These sensory devices take up the feminist struggle—an acoustic intervention that claims space, demands participation, and resists. Loud, confrontational, and with a lot of humor.
For starsky, language is material, tool, and attitude all at the same time:
“I am convinced that language shapes our thinking and vice versa. That’s why I believe precision in language is so important. What you cannot say, you cannot think. And what you cannot think, you cannot say! You recognize everyone by their language. You recognize the machos by their language, the fascists by theirs. Their ideology is embedded in the very way they speak.”
starsky works with highly precise and direct texts that leave little room for distortion. These texts are meant to be understood, to challenge, to irritate. She reclaims words and writes against structures. In doing so, she amplifies voices that are otherwise unheard.
“I do not accept feminism as a slur—I reclaim the word. In fact, I reclaim many words that have been discredited. I wear the word feminism with pride and honor. And I honor all the work that has gone into it, for decades, centuries—work that must be upheld.”
Since the 1990s, she has worked with large-scale projections, taking over public spaces. She has developed her own controls for slide and film projectors, allowing her to rhythmize and animate images in real time. Her happenings and light installations occupy buildings, rip words out of their usual context, and rewrite the city. For her, it is primarily about reclaiming space, uncovering power dynamics, and confronting people.
“If you can afford a massive billboard, you are everywhere—I mean the people with money. Ordinary people are erased. They are allowed to walk through public space, but that’s about it. That’s why it is so incredibly satisfying to project a hundred-meter-long text onto a building and take up that space. As a woman, you are not given space—you have to claim it for yourself.”
Team
starsky / Peter Koger / Renate Alber / Tina Kult / Paul Hübl / Geoffrey Wirth / Michi Habla / Ulli Schöflinger / evasee / Mz*Baltazar’s Lab-Team, uvm …
