The Piazzetta Hamburg was organized by the artists’ group “Frauen und Technik” (“Women and Technology”), which was founded at the Academy of Fine Arts, where Mike Hentz was a professor at the time. It was one of the most active Piazzettas, which went on the air from the Ponton media lab in Hamburg, sometimes several times a day. In their contributions, they combined methods from feminist and performance art with an examination of the medium of television. Regular program items included “penis envy games”, a parody of a game show, but also activities that were reminiscent of artistic performances, such as when group member Cornelia Sollfrank showed only a close-up of her mouth or herself meditating for an extended period of time.

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Screen shots of Piazzetta Hamburg