On Wednesday, 28th February 2018, a dust protection sheet is set up on the construction site of IIG, Innsbrucker Immobilien Gesellschaft, at 10 Bienerstraße in Innsbruck, but this sheet differs decisively from any others. Artist Katharina Cibulka uses the large expanses of textile to embroider slogans clarifying the continuing necessity of feminist demands: “As long as I speak of career and you mean family management, I am a feminist.“ The method of embroidering into the construction nets means that a male domain is literally penetrated and reoccupied. Relevant social statements are transported in a radical and yet still subtle way.

Katharina Cibulka asked people in her environment the following questions during the run-up to the action: “How long do we need to stay committed to feminism? 
Have we already reached the peak of emancipation? 
How long have you been a feminist?”

The sentences generated by these questions, which are concerned with such thematic fields as profession and family, sexual harassment, gap in wages/double burden, power and discrimination, and also respect, are visible at various construction sites in the Tyrol.

Katharina Cibulka selected sentences which relate to the situation of women in Austria/Europe. Her inspiration came from an interview conducted by journalist and author Angelika Hager with the famous British artist Tracey Emin for the news magazine profil in 2015. Emin responded to the question of whether women’s fierce grip on feminism was outdated: “As long as somewhere in the world a woman is burnt to death because she has smiled at a man, as long as a teacher’s hand is chopped off because she teaches young girls to read and write, I will be a feminist.”¹

Mesh 1: Bienerstr. 10, Innsbruck. Duration: February – mid May 2018, Developer: IIG, The Real Estate Company of the City of Innsbruck | Mesh 2: Schrofensteinstr. 7, Landeck. April 2018, Developer: Alpenländische Gemeinnützige Wohnbaugesellschaft | Mesh 3: Reichenauerstr. 45-47, Innsbruck. May – July 2018, Developer: NEUE HEIMAT TIROL; Developer: BIG | Mesh 4: Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. July 2018 – 2020 (follow-up project) | Mesh 5: Cathedral of St. Jakob, Innsbruck. July – September 2018