URGENT BIOPOWER UPDATE, not in the dubious, never-defined sense of 'biopolitical struggle', but in its everyday, concrete meaning.  That is, institutions directly claiming administrative sovereignty over masses of human life-matter, with absolute priority over any subjective impulses from the flesh in question.  And of course it's not just any institutions or any flesh: US medical authorities are demanding that the medical system intervene to maintain ALL women's childbearing capacity regardless of those women's own wishes.  In the bluntest practical terms, t

Venezuela's 'Bolivarian constitution' contains a unique article (Article 88) recognising women's unwaged work as economically productive. Wages For Housework (WFH) has been fighting for this recognition since 1972, and has participated in the annual Global Women's Strike (GWS) since its inception in 2000. GWS members attended Venezuela's international 'Solidarity Women's Encuentro' in July 2002, and saw women at the heart of the revolution and its social changes. Laura Sullivan spoke to Selma James and Nina Lopez of WFH and GWS

[prologue] is a mutating platform for the formulation of a feminist aesthetic politics which reacts to and acts upon the New Europe as it impacts on women’s lives. Artist and participant Emma Hedditch followed it from its planning symposium in Graz to its problematic culmination in an exhibition at the Cornerhouse, Manchester. [prologue] New Feminism/New Europe runs until 18 September 2005

Helen Chadwick’s interest in the flux of being and the blurring of multiple boundaries made her far more than a precursor to the yBa’s. Stella Santacatterina reviews her recent retrospective at the Barbican

Mariarosa Dalla Costa, a central figure in the Lotta Femminista (Feminist Struggle) and Wages For Housework campaigns in the 1970s, considers here, with Dario De Bortoli, the recent movement for alternative agriculture and food policy in Italy

> Critical Wine conference, Leoncavallo, December 2003

Lutham Blissett on gender, networks and the PGA conference in Serbia

"Strange En counter 2004"

"It is often better to write your account of a conference before you go, then the facts don't get in the way of the truth", Lutham Blissett

Strange En counter 2004

Anja Kirschner reviews three films screened at London’s Lux Salon and laments the passage of radical women’s filmmaking into depoliticised, stylistic affectation

II The revolution shall not be criticised?
In response to ISEA98 Micz Flor, organiser of Revolting temporary media laboratory, asks "why now, why revolution?" Is the current popularity of the term and its associated icons anything more than Middle Youth talking to itself in the latest of a long line of fashionable lingos?

IV Net.Politics Q&A

Women, Art & Technology edited by Judy Malloy Reviewed by Vali Djordjevic and Diana McCarty

At a conference programmed to coincide with the exhibition Mons Veneris: Female Geographies at the Austrian Cultural Forum, female artists, curators and theorists gathered to discuss the role of feminist art. How, they asked, can it resist the culture industry and its seemingly universal ability to assimilate and neutralise? And, what is the significance of the waning interest in funding feminist practice?

Amongst the recent slew of oversized books on the philosophies of architectural and design practices, it is refreshing to find a user-friendly paperback pragmatically titled, THIS IS WHAT WE DO: A Muf Manual.

How does open source software relate to paper dolls, dress making, libraries and dinner parties? Lina Dzuverovic-Russell talks to the De Geuzen art collective and discovers how the geek ethos overlaps with the practice of everyday life.

How did the three of you meet and start working together?

How does open source software relate to paper dolls, dress making, libraries and dinner parties? Lina Dzuverovic Russell talks to the De Geuzen art collective and discovers how the geek ethos overlaps with the practice of everyday life