Deconstructions through Sweet; feminist, participative public action

Looking back to my grandmother’s stories, I remember Zagreb had several streets dedicated to women, heroines from the Second World War, deleted at the beginning of the nineties of the last century. The idea for this action is to renew pieces of information about important women’s endeavors in science, art, activism, labor rights, architecture, aviation, directing, literature, music, acting, etc. The focus is collecting and sharing women’s history, which I encourage through the eat-art action of exchanging healthy cakes. I’m standing in the center of the square with a table on which there is a plan of the city of Gorica with streets that have no names. By the poster, passersby are offered handmade, two types of cakes. I dedicated one part of the cake to selected women from recent and distant history; however, their names are written so that some letters are missing, and visitors have to logically guess them. Whoever succeeds gets a cookie as a reward and can rename the street, square, or park on the map. My goal is also to collect the names of women or women’s organizations, for which passersby and passersby think that they somehow contributed to the overall betterment of the city of Velika Gorica. Those who tell convincing stories also get a special cake as a thank you for the exchange of information, and they write her name on the map. All cookies are vegan and made to the greatest extent from local ingredients, so they are also climate-neutral.