Syntagma centres on a woman and her body. Locke’s works are the antithesis of messy, sensationalized spectacles. The Body Politics festival presents six choreographic solos by artists from different corners of the planet, all outside the West. We are in the midst of what, during my East Coast childhood, would be the long pause of summer. As a source of sustenance for centuries, bread symbolises nourishment and the earth from which wheat grows, as well as links to the human body and motherhood which now becomes a burden. All rights reserved. See more. These are perhaps conducive conditions for looking at art, at least in the way Mark Van Proyen advocates for in his review: “the only way to come to terms with this…is to silently sit there…, July 14, 2011. A body politic is a metaphor in which a nation is considered to be a corporate entity, being likened to a human body.A body politic comprises all the people in a particular country considered as a single group. We in the western world live on bread; our existence depends on this drug, the principal element of which is putrefaction, which we are obliged to modify with a poison to render it less unwholesome. About museum. Art Practical is not interested in either delineating geographic boundaries around artists or defining regional aesthetics, but in investigating art’s potential to coalesce…, January 13, 2011. Surrounded by water and fog, its shape-shifting sensibility is cultural as well as geographic: one becomes oneself here. She has gone beyond representing identity to producing identities. These days I'm doing a lot of performance where the participants in the piece are the audience. As Young notes, the destruction of the Twin Towers was the most mediated and spectacular event in contemporary history, and so the re-coordination along different sight lines becomes, in part, an effort to reconsider encounter. In protest of the Smithsonian’s act of censorship, we have replaced all the images intended for inclusion in this issue with a still from Wojnarowicz’s film; this version will run through Saturday, December 18. Her work has been both embodied and interactive; she has situated it far outside the institutional realm of the museum, in places that are liminal and virtual. They will hate me. I think that if governments were more enlightened, they would make good use of us. Following her Diploma in Design, Valie Export started working in the film industry and co-founded the Austria Filmmakers Cooperative. 0 Reviews. Central to the structure of MOCA was the fact that it was not a collecting institution. Since 1968 Valie Export has taken part in many important international exhibitions, including documenta 6 and 12 (1977 and 2007) and the Austrian Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 1980. Some of those conversations are documented in this issue’s features, and more will be presented in the coming weeks, as podcasts and articles. Guestbook. Perhaps it’s an effort to create continuity between…, June 2, 2011. Embedded in the outcries that led to the censorship of A Fire in My Belly from the current (privately funded) exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery was the hackneyed refrain of “not with taxpayer dollars,” which could portend further attempts to erode the already sparse civic funds available to the arts. Art Practical’s third thematic issue, “Performance: The Body Politic,” examines more than four decades of the marriage between politics and performance art in the Bay Area. Entitled Shop Talk, the conversations will focus on survival strategies artists develop and adopt to gain recognition and financial viability. The other thing that I get out of it is that I can be silly, which is how I think about my sexuality. For the artists profiled, the body serves as a political arena in and of itself. For example, there is a substantial body of work in international relations and security studies on art’s operation in violent conditions, offering political interpretations of art (and culture) in the context of violence, terrorism, and war. Brian Andrews and Duncan MacKenzie of B@S, in particular, take an inquisitive and informed approach that combines an evident respect for their subject with self-depreciating…, December 20, 2010. … Body politics was first used in this sense in the 1970s, during the “second wave” of the feminist movement in the United States. Body Politics in Iranian Art - … Feet and hands touch and feel a sheet of glass, a tongue is pressed against a transparent wall, an ear listens at the cold surface. Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. A series of interviews and essays pulls this historical thread through to the current day. These questions drive the practices of many artists concerned with issues of domination, exclusion, and equality. It turns out that these frozen motions of the body represent a canon, a doctrine. The forthcoming exhibition in Salzburg will focus on works from her series of Körperkonfigurationen [Body Configurations] (1972-82), the three-part photographic work Identitätstransfer 1-3 [Identity Transfer 1-3] (1968), documentations of the performances HOMOMETER (1973) and HOMO METER II (1976), two showcases on the theme of Hand Figurations and Body Configurations (1972-82), the photo collage EXTREM / ITÄTEN DES VERHALTENS [EXTREM / ITIES OF BEHAVIOUR] (1972), the video installation Body Tape (1970), as well as the videos/films Body Politics (1974), Syntagma (1983) and Bewegte Bilder über sich bewegende Personen [Moving Pictures about Moving People] (1973). 1940, Valie Export is concerned with issues of domination, exclusion and. 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