Above: Katunayake Free Trade Zone (2006) at globale, Berlin, 2007. Seminary
(as part of the installation) on Free Trade Zones with Padmini and Ayomi
from The Women’s Centre. And The Women’s Centre tealounge that also were
part of the installation.


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Katunayake FTZ and The Kotmale Project (2006)
at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, studio 2, 2006


Katunayake FTZ and The Kotmale Project (2006)
at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, studio 2, 2006

The Women’s Centre
video (43 min. 2006)

The Women’s Centre is based on a group interview with women (workers and activists) connected to the Women’s Centre at Katunayake Free Trade Zone in Sri Lanka. The main issues discussed in the video are the circumstances and politics around the free trade zones, gender politics and women rights in the zone and the society.

This video are part of the Kotmale/Katunayake Free Trade Zone project that consists of a series of videos, a billboard, texts and images that investigates the political context and impact of Free Trade Zones and the Kotmale project, as well as WB and IMF restructural adjustment policies initiated in the late seventies in Sri Lanka, and the policies that WTO suggests for the country today. The project investigates the relation between capitalism and gender structures; cartographies of struggle; and counter hegemonic narratives.