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 it was a form of manipulation too. Subsequently, we've had to engage with a lot of things that we used to disavow as manipulation. We can't just dismiss everything as manipulations anymore, since the alternatives are constructions, too. From our perspective, from this corner of the planet, we have to admit that it's all constructed. There is absolutely no nature. Nature is one of the biggest constructions.
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 …
- 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
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…
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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