Tarifabschluss im öffentlichen Dienst - die große Tarifrechtsreform?

Stellt der Tarifabschluss für Arbeiter und Angestellte von Bund und Kommunen einen Beitrag zum Einstieg in eine umfassende Neustrukturierung des öffentlichen Dienstes dar, oder wurde vor allem an den bisherigen alten Strukturen des öffentlichen Dienstes festgehalten? Für Dr. Thomas Böhle, Vereinigung der Kommunalen Arbeitgeberverbände, wird "das bisherige Tarifrecht … durch ein modernes, leistungsorientiertes und transparentes Tarifrecht ersetzt, das den Anforderungen einer modernen Verwaltung für die Bürgerinnen und Bürger gerecht wird". Auch Dr. Ralf Stegner, Finanzminister des Landes Schleswig-Holstein, sieht positive Elemente: "Der Potsdamer Tarifabschluss vom 9. Februar 2005 ist der erste Baustein zur großen Tarifrechtsreform durch Einführung einer neuen Entgeltordnung, in dem auch die Gewerkschaften durchaus ihre Reformfähigkeit unter Beweis gestellt haben.… Im Detail gibt es aus Ländersicht aber auch kritisch zu hinterfragende Entscheidungen." Weitaus skeptischer ist Prof. Dr. Walter A. Oechsler, Universität Mannheim: "Die Analyse macht deutlich, dass die Tarifreform nicht die große durchgreifende Modernisierung des Tarifrechts im öffentlichen Dienst darstellt." Nach Ansicht von Prof. Dr. Monika Böhm, Universität Marburg, stellt der Tarifvertrag einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Einstieg in eine umfassend erforderliche Neustrukturierung des öffentlichen Dienstes dar, obwohl weitgehend an den bisherigen Strukturen festgehalten wurde.Öffentlicher Dienst, Angestellte, Arbeiter, Tariflohn, Leistungsorientierte Vergütung, Tarifvertrag, Deutschland

The Eagle Document

The Eagle Document forms the second stage of an ongoing project by artist Monika Oechsler. Oeschler visited Farnham last September with a radical live performance combining modern dance, performance art, experimental music and a falconry display. Stage two of the The Eagle Document is the culmination of filmed performance rehearsals, and bird flights presented on five screens. The installation examines notions of performance and 'live' art using projections onto multiple screens. The theme of the bird, the Eagle, is carried through into the new installation and used as an object/prop within the projections. The viewer experiences multiple views from different camera angles and their non-synchronised timelines and sound creates overlaps and repeats; this repetition playing on notions of time and duration. The screen configuration also echoes the mechanism of film production, its rhythms of flow and interruption, to be experienced as a physical and spatial phenomena. The Eagle Document was originally inspired by Marcel Broodthaers' Musée d'Art Moderne, a critical commentary on art production at the end of the modernist period. Broodthaers challenged the notion of the permanent art collection, the museum and the status of the art object by creating a series of nomadic, non-permanent and fictitious museum collections. One of these fictitious collections The Département d'Aigles (a collection of diverse eagle paraphernalia) cancelled the status of the eagle as a symbol of power and reappropriated the art objects as a method of display. The installation borrows Broodthaers device 'the object as method' and investigates the 'object' within expanded art concepts. Both choreography and action are reminiscent of the early video performances of Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn. The work also looks at 'body and space' a familiar theme in performance art. The installation contrasts the closed space of performance with the open space of the installation. Thus viewing and experiencing the work involves the onlooker navigating the space and assembling images and sounds

The S.C.U.M. Manifesto dinner

A performative event with 25 participating artists, including students

Subjectivity and feminisms: peepshow project

Investigating the manipulation of the act of viewing, Peepshow will deny the public access to Project Space 11 with the intention of arousing curiosity of what lies within it. Presenting a small peephole well above eye-level, viewers will have to climb a small set of steps outside the spaceʼs shutter to view the work. This act of looking will position the viewer raised on a platform, highly visible to the other market users. However, with only one person being able to view the work at a time, this highly public scenario will also be a potentially private and intimate one. The project could make reference to the notion of voyeurism (Hitchcockian motifs, ʻrubberneckingʼ, Soho peepshows etc), or more formally address the gender politics that are connoted by the peephole-viewing construct (for example Bergerʼs notion of ʻthe gazeʼ)

The impenetrable power of the phallic matron: the Sarah Palin syndrome

A performance dinner

Salon for a speculative future

The Salon for a Speculative Future was inaugurated in March 2019 in celebration of Women’s History Month, as a platform for cross-generational and cross-disciplinary exchange. Reflecting on the current political and economic global situation, in particular the exponential acceleration of a technology-driven platform capitalism, many women advocate positive change for an ecologically sustainable and humane future. In The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin argues that science fiction does not simply extrapolate from the present to predict the future—instead, the fiction writer engages in thought-experiments where ideas and intuition move within the confines set by the experiment. This book hosts imaginative thinking by seventy-five women artists, sharing their influences, inspired by women’s contributions to diverse fields, from art, education, and science to political activism. Salon for a Speculative Future honours and shares insights and experimental thinking towards a positive future