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WBB’s Relevance to Academia
August 23, 2021WBB has been a catalyst for creativity and collaboration in many areas and has been interpreted by a variety of adjunct projects. Presented here are a few examples of how WBB has crossed over to academic disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, women’s studies, art education, art history, and public practice…
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Formosa Tales Exhibition
April 21, 2021Women Beyond Borders are proud to announce that we have opened a new exhibition in Taiwan in conjunction with Red Room, a community-driven creative arts platform fostering inter-generational, cross-cultural expression…
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Pieces of Dialogue
October 30, 1995Sometimes it seems so complicated, this being human. Especially now, in the 90s. Maybe it always seems difficult for those whose age it is, but certainly it is…
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Goodbye Saigon
March 21, 1995April 1975, Vietnam: Everyone knows the communists will overrun Saigon, but no one expected it to happen so fast. Over the last month the sound of gunfire and explosions have slowly increased…
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SWITZERLAND
April 28, 1996Anne-Kathi Wildberger, Educational Curator and Heide Bilderbrand, WBB Austrian participant had the inspiration of including a segment of WBB along with Pandora, Women in Classical Greece, an exhibition of vessels…
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Making Art as if the World Mattered
July 4, 1991“The imperatives of a rapidly changing world are overwhelming. Art as a positive and compassionate response is becoming urgent. Much of modern art seeks to maximize profit rather than to serve social ends,” according to Lacy…
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Rib-in Man. An Imaginative Journey of a Box
May 13, 2001This exhibition further marks spaces for art made by women in Singapore. It is not on accounts that they are women that alone made such work invaluable…
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Box Network
October 6, 1995Just to set things straight, Pandora was the Athenian name for the Earth Goddess Rhea. The nasty little tale in which Hesiod, the Greek poet, blamed all the world’s follies and ills on a woman who…
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Something Out of Nothing?
May 13, 2001The title of my essay is taken from Lucy R. Lippard’s article of a similar title where she discusses the definition of women’s “hobby art.” She questions the boundaries…
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21 Leaders of the 21st Century
January 1, 2008Women’s Enews is a globe-spanning nonprofit news service covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women’s perspectives on public policy. Every year the organization honors…
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Slovenia
October 8, 2001In a time when it’s business as usual that one curator or one institution conceives, selects, and curates an exhibition, the founders of Women Beyond Borders challenge this common model by experimenting with, and re-introducing a collective approach…
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Boxes Around the World
November 15, 2005Thinking and acting globally has many faces. Ideally, it includes creating an intercultural dialogue that fosters our shared responsibilities as citizens of this world…
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Women Beyond Borders – The Art of Community Building
November 6, 2001Freedom. Love. Searching. Sex. Courage. Violence. Hope. Such are the imaginations of women around the world captured in small, almost ordinary prototype boxes, transformed into…
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Beyond Boxes: WBB Project and its Implications for Feminism Today
July 6, 2006n. paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal
Over the past decade, Women Beyond Borders has developed into one of the most intriguing and inspiring cultural phenomena at the turn of the twenty-first century, successfully reaching out to…
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Women Beyond Borders – an Essay
July 6, 1996Women in communication, sharing ideas, insights, dreams, joys, sorrows and collective memories, an age-old concept…
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AUSTRALIA
August 27, 1999The opportunities this exhibition has offered throughout its five year existence, whilst acting as an agent for the ideas and feelings of women, has encouraged and inspired creativity and above all communication…
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JAPAN
April 17, 1999“I am sure that this project is the hope of all women everywhere. Let us also hope that this Exhibition will lead to additional opportunities throughout Japan, and all the countries of all the world, to communicate and express our humanity.”
– Yoshihiro Ikka, Curator
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MEXICO
October 17, 1998The Women Beyond Borders exhibition in Mexico brought together artists from different socio-economic classes for the first time. Women from small villages in Mexico who work in crafts…
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CUBA
August 7, 1998Summer brought with it to Havana a breathless cultural activity. Opening August 7, 1998, at the Centro Wilfredo Lam was the Women Beyond Borders Exhibition, of special relevance in our aesthetic…
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CROATIA
April 19, 1998An indoor and outdoor installation of boxes from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Slovenia was arranged by Nada Beros, curator of the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art…
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YUGOSLAVIA
November 11, 1997In 1997 WBB gathered several of the most prominent Yugoslav sculptors and painters, as well as a few emerging artists. The opening exhibition of their…
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Truthful and Authentic Communication
July 1, 1996Twelve Greek women artists of different generations are participating in this unique exhibition of Women Beyond Borders, a symbolic journey enclosing and dispersing at the same time the transcultural memory of a polysemic past-present. The boxes reveal a multitude of transformations…
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A Commentary on Women Beyond Borders
July 6, 1995The prestigious Belgian anthropologist Levi-Strauss said that, looked at over the millennium, passions have not changed substantially and to omit at random ten centuries wouldn’t effect significantly our knowledge of human nature…
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