Saturday, September 30 – 3pm – Galerie Rabus

Gerburg Treusch-Dieter
Buildingsite Europe
The Town of Women

Buildingsites are untidy, anarchic and muddy. Europe is clean. It brings peace, democracy and human rights even to those which don't want them. And in spite of Europe's fight against terrorism and structural unemployment, nobody won’t mind it, if Europe fights at the same time for its Christian God as if he had ever been part of the enlightement. But it is Europe and no other continent, where the name of this God had to justify the burning of millions of women at the stake, and this at the beginning of modern times. 1405, some decades before this burning, Christine de Pizan opposes with her book "The Town of Women" the whole writing culture, that has developed since the Day of Creation under the condition: Women are nothing. "Do not exist", means for her, this system of doctrines has to fall, while the town of women will be erected. 1487, the papal inquisition tries to stop this rebellion by a book, that functions as a guide for interrogation, torture and killing. It is the "Hexenhammer" by Sprenger and Institoris, with which not only the burning of the bodies like paper in the fire of the stakes began, but also the process of the so called Gutenberg Galaxis. "Do not exist", means now, the trinity of printing stock, god and capital is the guarantee against everybody, that wields a formidable pen. Europe is clean. Should there be still an untidy, anarchic and muddy buildingsite, it will be presented as a showsite - even as a mass grave. But never mind it, follow me! I am sure, that we will find the foundation stone of the town of women!


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