Womanifesto is a women-centred arts collective that began in Thailand in 1995. Three decades of inclusive projects and creative reinventions have seen Womanifesto work with more than 150 collaborators from 45 countries.
The ethos of this diverse and dispersed group of artists, sometimes called the Womanifesto way, celebrates hospitality, communal activity and togetherness, focusing on the position of women and the wealth of women’s knowledge. Womanifesto aims to strengthen connections between artists internationally and engage local communities while promoting new and emerging forms of artistic expression.
Through exhibitions, workshops, artists’ residencies, and other in-person and online programmes, Womanifesto links practitioners from Thailand with regional and international artists, highlighting shared cultures and establishing fresh exchanges. Many voices, and many ways of making and knowing are cherished and championed.
This publication aims to share and reflect the Womanifesto way. It intends to document and discuss Womanifesto’s past activities, while also suggesting possibilities for ongoing and future creative collaborations.
Consistent with Womanifesto’s ethos of inclusiveness and hospitality, this publication features a wide variety of contributions, far exceeding those found in a typical monograph or scholarly volume. Conventional, scholarly essays appear alongside more experimental and unconventional texts, as well as images, and audiovisual contributions. English, Thai, and other languages commingle.
The Digital Edition includes an Anthology of newly commissioned texts, a network visualisation of the connections between different Makers (artists and other participants), Makings (projects, events and art), Musings (essays, conversations and texts) and Materials (archival documents, photos and video), and a digital archive and database that draws together new essays and texts, with histories of events and projects, digitised archival documents, photos, videos and biographies.