Womanifesto is a women-centred arts collective that began in Thailand in 1995.
Womanifesto Way is a networked history and digital anthology.
This website presents Womanifesto as an expanding network of people, practices and ideas—here called 'makers', 'makings', and 'musings'.
Womanifesto's history can also be traced through hundreds of archival records, gathered here as 'materials'.
In the network, you will also find newly commissioned content—such as essays, recorded conversations and artist's recollections.
As much about the content as the connections between, we invite you to experience our collective the 'Womanifesto way'.
Explore the website
You can explore this history in two ways.
EXPLORE NETWORK will show you the Womanifesto as a network of connected people, artworks, events and archival materials. You can select 'nodes' on the this graph (that might be a Maker (person), Making (project, event or artwork), or a Musing (a new essay, recollection, or conversation) and then see who and what connected to it. The network visualises the extensive global connections created over decades by the Womanifesto collective through their art and community.
BROWSE CATEGORIES allows you to explore this information as a set of posts, presented in a more traditional grid. Select 'Makers', 'Makings', 'Materials', or 'Musings' to start exploring by category.
Project overview
The Womanifesto Way Digital Anthology Project is a collaborative artist-led archival, anthology and art history project.
The longevity and diversity of this independent arts collective suggested there was much to learn from women- and artist-led approaches to intergenerational and cross-cultural exchange and as such the project has followed the collective's lead, using a participatory and multivocal form of art history making. The development of this project has included in-person and digital presentations of collaborative art practices and exhibitions, alongside scholarly writing, conversations, and, experimental modes of visual communication suited to digital publication.
Essays, archival documents, images, videos, transcripts and other records are all connected through the network. The project links to the hundreds of archival materials recently digitised by Asia Art Archive, bringing the archive into the Anthology so readers can follow non-linear paths through original sources and contemporary reflections.
Led by an editorial collective of Yvonne Low, Varsha Nair, Roger Nelson, Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Marni Williams, this anthology, archive and visual network presents a record of Womanifesto’s people and projects.
The digital platform offers new perspectives by bringing together creative and scholarly reflections in various media and languages. Such a project would not have been possible without the generosity and commitment to collaboration of the artists in the collective.
For more insight into Womanifesto, their 'way', and the ethos of this publication, visit Introducing the Womanifesto Way.