Valie Export

"Nibby" (nibby68) 10/15/2014 at 16:46 • Filed to: None

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A performance artist who did a lot of work concerning how we see gender and identity, sexuality, violence against women, etc. Some stuff she did was walk her boyfriend around on a leash, invite people to touch her breasts enclosed in a theatrical box, etc.

In her 1968 performance Aktionshose: Genitalpanik (Action Pants: Genital Panic), VALIE EXPORT went into a cinema – supposedly a porn theatre – in Munich, wearing crotchless pants, and walked around the audience with her exposed genitalia at face level. On the black-and-white photographs associated with this action and taken one year after, the artist is facing the camera, sitting on a bench in her torn pants, with her legs wide open and brandishing a machine gun. This violent setting recalls the notions of guerrilla warfare and revolution, particularly pertinent at that time. EXPORT had them screen-printed as a poster so as to flypost the picture in public spaces and on the streets. The performance at the cinema and the photographs were both aimed toward provoking thoughts about the passive role of women in cinema and confronting the private nature of sexuality with the public venues of her performances, metaphorically reinforced by the male phallic symbol of the gun in the photographs.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 10/15/2014 at 16:50

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...and this being Germany, nobody batted an eye.

#cheapshots