I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out what happened when you leave behind the voyeuristic mode and confront people with reality. But that's what was so interesting for me to discover: People don't want to see reality. It's a pretty simple idea, really, this question of how we deal with reality. When something is constructed, when it's projected onto a screen, it's acceptable, but it's different when it's there in front of you in a public space.
I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out wh… - Valie Export
I was trying to develop a completely new, nonvoyeuristic approach to the female body as something other than a visual object. I wanted to find out wh…
- Valie Export
The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard … - Valie Export
The female body has always been a construction. Even feminist art of the 1970s fashioned a body in accordance with its own ideas, and in this regard …
My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. … - Valie Export
My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. …
Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which m… - Valie Export
Much of the art of the 1960s, from body art to video and direct performance, was concerned with similar issues. And then there was media art, which m…
Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no s… - Valie Export
Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no s…
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