negative names for women

Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006
From: Renee Turner
Subject: [-empyre-] Tactics and Strategies
http://www.subtle.net/empyre

"we have been archiving the negative names for women over several years (ranging from the virgin to the whore) and have turned them into a set of T-shirts sold in our webshop.
http://www.geuzen.org/current/geuzennamen/catalogus.htm

Our net stats show us that people often come to our site because they are searching for porn. (their keywords reveal them ;-) And oddly enough, they linger.

We actually get teenagers that email us because they want to add to our list of words, or they want to buy a T-shirt.

(sorry this project is in Dutch but hopefully you get the idea: "
http://www.geuzen.org/current/geuzennamen/


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I get the idea alright, check out the advertising.

If you run the site through altavista you discover that the grey box contains a list of insulting names for women and you can vote for your favourite. This market research assists in determining inventory levels.

http://vote.sparklit.com/poll.spark/645771

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De Geuzen (a foundation for multi-visual research) is Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renee Turner. Collaborating since 1996, they have deployed a variety of strategies both on and offline to explore their interests in female identity, critical resistance, representation, and narrative archiving.

Their research-oriented works and DIY activities have been featured in Rhizome, Manifesta 3 (Slovenia) Mute and the Kuenstlerhaus Bremen (Germany).

Some of their most recent projects include,
a temporary conversion of a bridge-watcher's house into a news kiosk,
a workshop on future mobile media,
a Global Anxiety Monitor
(http://www.geuzen.org/anxiety/ )
and a Critical Browser (http://www.geuzen.org/browser/ )

While some of their projects are by commission,
many are self-initiated. For a general overview, see:
http://www.geuzen.org/