Online-workshop with Nadja Buttendorf: For a long time, there have been big demonstrations in Germany. Demonstrations with huge banners. Demonstrations about climate change. Greta Thunberg became famous with that. But: the times of these big demonstrations are over. Since the Coronavirus pandemic started, protests have moved to the internet, to social media. On the internet, protest signs have become smaller and smaller. Wordplay and ironical-critical comments also play a role there. People use hashtags to protest, for example: #ClimateStrikeOnline and #LeaveNoOneBehind.
The Workshop will take place in a video chat. In the chat, we paint our protest onto our fingernails. We demonstrate online. We create protest images which can be used on social media. We call our protest: Never not striking nails. Fingernails are a very small part of the body. But they are always visible – and thereby the protest is, too. WE WANT HOT NAILS, NOT A HOT PLANET!
Important: Before the workshop all participants will be provided with material boxes by our delivery service. These will contain everything that is necessary for the workshop. Let us know if you need technical support from us to participate!
Nadja Buttendorf questions: which norms and codes make a man a man? And which make a woman a woman? And in what ways do men still hold more power than women? What is the worth of a body? What difference do technology and digitalization make in that regard? Nadja Buttendorf’s video projects are stories from a new perspective. They show us: Women are part of the history of technology. In Nadja Buttendorf’s videos they become visible. Nadja Buttendorfs works are interactive. That means: they are shaped by their audience. That is also the case with the online workshops. Nadja Buttendorf creates video tutorials for the internet. And she makes very peculiar jewellery which are good conversation starters. The jewellery and the video tutorials show that there are many things you can make yourself. Even with little money.
Works and workshops by Nadja Buttendorf have been on display in these places, among others: at HKW Berlin, at the Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund, at the Künstlerhaus Bremen, at LaGaîtéLyrique Paris, at MU EIndhoven, at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, at the Halle 14 Center for contemporary art Leipzig, at D21 Leipzig, as well as the pankegallery Berlin. She has given Lecture Performances, among other places, at the Re:publica, at the CCC, Creamcake or the nGbK Berlin. Nadja Buttendorf is a trained goldsmith and studied Fine Art at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.
