e-Galaxy in Frankfurt & Vienna: Participation, Performance & Women’s Networks
In September and October 2025, ‘e-Galaxy’ extended beyond the exhibition space into a series of encounters, presentations, and participatory actions connected through long-standing international women’s artistic networks based in Europe.
These events created opportunities to share the project in different contexts — from symposium discussions and outdoor collective actions to intimate conversations around technology, sustainability, embodiment, and participation.
Frankfurt — International Women Theatre Festival at Protagon
Just after the opening of the Munich exhibition, I was invited to Frankfurt by the International Women’s* Theatre Festival at Protagon, part of the Magdalena Project network. I presented ‘e-Galaxy’ during the symposium Performing Ecofeminism held at the Frankfurt Historical Museum, sharing the development of the project and its participatory approach to electronic waste, collective reflection, and embodied engagement with technology.
For the festival’s closing event, I also created an outdoor labyrinth using rope sourced from the theatre’s backstage set storage. Participants were invited to slowly walk the spiral together, creating a temporary collective space for reflection, listening, and presence. Unlike the electronic waste labyrinths of ‘e-Galaxy’, this version was stripped back to gesture, movement, and relation — a simple shared structure activated by bodies in space.
The Magdalena Project network has played an important role in supporting connections between women and gender-diverse artists internationally for many years. Being able to share ‘e-Galaxy’ within this context opened meaningful conversations around participation, care, transmission, sustainability, and collective artistic practices.
Vienna — VBKÖ Activation & Presentation
Following Munich and Frankfurt, I travelled to Vienna for a presentation and activation organised by radio producer and presenter Zoe Gudovic at VBKÖ (Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs / Austrian Association of Women Artists), one of the oldest organisations of women artists in Europe.
The event brought together artists, activists, and participants interested in ecology, technology, feminist histories, and participatory art practices.
VBKOE on instagram:
“The event may be over, but its echoes keep traveling – like a galaxy made of many possible futures.”
The atmosphere of exchange and generosity strongly resonated with the spirit of the Magdalena network and with the broader questions at the core of e-Galaxy: how we live together, create together, share knowledge, and imagine more sustainable futures. These experiences in Frankfurt and Vienna reinforced the importance of international artistic networks and collective spaces of dialogue in sustaining long-term interdisciplinary and socially engaged artistic practices.
‘e-Galaxy’ has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body,
and supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.