Womanifesto Way

Womanifesto is a women-centred arts collective that began in Thailand in 1995. It has since worked with more than 150 collaborators from 45 countries.

This website presents the history of Womanifesto as a network of people, practices and ideas - what we have called "makers", "makings" and "musings". You can explore this history through images, documents and other archival materials, alongside newly commissioned texts. 

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 (event or artwork), or a Musing (a new essay or text) and then see who and what is connected to this. The network visualises the extensive global connections created over decades by the Womanifesto collective through their art and community. 

CATEGORIES allows you to explore this information as a set of posts presented in a more traditional grid. Select 'Maker', 'Making', 'Material', or 'Musing' to start exploring.

The Womanifesto Way Digital Anthology Project is a collaborative artist-led archival, anthology and art history project. 

The women-centred arts collective, Womanifesto, has, across nearly three decades, worked with more than 150 collaborators from 45 countries. The longevity and diversity of this independent network suggests there is much to learn from women- and artist-led approaches to intergenerational and cross-cultural exchange. 

The project examines the ‘Womanifesto Way’ and the importance of collectivity for women artists. 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.

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. 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, this brings the archive into the Anthology so readers can follow non-linear paths through the texts and view archival documents, photos, video and more alongside the essays. The digital platform offers new perspectives by bringing together creative and scholarly reflections in various media and languages. It will be the first digital publication of its kind to focus on the evolving and living histories of woman artists associated with the collective Womanifesto, and would not be possible without the generosity and commitment to collaboration of the artists in the collective.