![]() ![]() As a pioneer of performance art, installation art and video art, EXPORT has consistently broken through the boundaries separating media genres, while using her own body as an artistic medium. VALIE EXPORT’s multimedia work eludes any simplistic categorisation or definition. Gallery label from Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980, Septem– Janufrom the MoMA website Nd Cited ![]() VALIE EXPORT had the image screen printed in a large edition and fly-posted it in public spaces. Born of the 1968 revolt against modern consumer and technical society, her defiant feminist action was memorialised in a picture taken the following year by the photographer Peter Hassmann in Vienna. Challenging the public to engage with a real woman instead of with images on a screen, in these works she illustrated her notion of “expanded cinema,” in which film is produced without celluloid instead the artist’s body activates the live context of watching. This act of provocation would characterise her future performances, especially TAPP und TASTKINO (TOUCH and TAP Cinema) and Aktionhose: Genitalpanik (Action Pants: Genital Panic). Export was the name of a popular cigarette brand. Eager to counter the male – dominated group of artists known as the Vienna Actionists – including Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler – she sought a new identity that was not bound by her father’s name (Lehner) or her former husband’s name (Hollinger). Tap and Touch Cinema is an example of how re-interpretation can activate the public.”Īt age twenty-eight, Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to VALIE EXPORT, in all uppercase letters, to announce her presence in the Viennese art scene. For as long as the citizen is satisfied with the reproduced copy of sexual freedom, the state is spared the sexual revolution. The tactile reception is the opposite of the deceit of voyeurism. At last, the curtain which formerly rose only for the eyes now rises for both hands. feel, touch) the film, the viewer (user) has to stretch his hands through the entrance to the cinema. But the cinema has shrunk somewhat – only two hands fit inside it. “As usual, the film is ‘shown’ in the dark. © VALIE EXPORT, 2022, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Werner Schulz Installation view VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs, Fotomuseum Winterthur At the interface of film, video art, drawing and body art the photographs offer a new perspective on her creative oeuvre. The show examines EXPORT’s use of photography as a critical exploration of processes of depiction and representation. 1940), whose at times provocative performances and experimental installations have been a source of controversy. VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs is the first exhibition to focus on the photographic oeuvre of the artist VALIE EXPORT (b. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Many thankx to the Fotomuseum Winterthur for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Upcoming postings continue the theme with exhibitions by Ming Smith, Ernest Cole, Hannah Villiger, Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems, and Lucinda Devlin. Postings have included exhibitions on the femme fatale, queer lives and Ukranian modernist painting and artists such as Samuel Fosso, Jimmy DeSana, and Andy Warhol. Recent postings have hit a rich vein with exhibitions on artists and concepts which challenge the patriarchal, hegemonic status quo… through an exploration of diversity and the enunciation of different points of view. © VALIE EXPORT, 2022, ProLitteris, Zurich Portfolio of Doggedness (VALIE EXPORT, own words, conversation with Elisabeth Lebovici), in cooperation with Peter WeibelĬourtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and the artist Exhibition dates: 25th February – 29th May 2023 ![]()
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