The Old Boys Network organized the first Cyberfeminist International in 1997 as part of the Hybrid Work Space of documenta X and was active until 2001.
The aim of the obn_archive project is to process, archive and digitize this relevant history of the connection between feminism and technology.
Together with the artist Cornelia Sollfrank, a group of the documenta Studies from the Kunsthochschule Kassel (Carina Herring, Malin Kuht, Julia Stolba, Nora Sternfeld) have sifted through, indexed and discussed material from the Old Boys Network, the first international cyberfeminist organization. The guiding principles of the archive project are based on the structure and ideas proposed by OBN itself: the mode is the message - the code is the collective.
Following the invitation to activate the obn_archive, Catwings engaged with archive material, interviews and sound phragments of the Old Boys Network which merged into a sonic installation at Stellwerk Kassel in the framework of the archive is the directive conference at RuRu Haus, documenta15 Kassel.
Concept, Sound Design & Text
Theresa Zwerschke
Steph Joyce
with Catwings
Curation
Malin Kuht
Graphic Design
Hanako Emden
Sound Mastering & Programming
João Polido
2022, multi channel sound installation, leaflets, Kassel