Valie Export (b. 1940)
...Remote... Remote...
(1973)
Human behaviour in contrast to that of machines (animals) is influenced by past events, no matter how long ago they occurred. This has led to the existence of a spiritual para-time that runs parallel to objective time and is constantly subject to the influence of the prayers of fear and guilt, of the incapability to overcome, of deformations that tear open the skin, of visual manifestations. I point to something representing past and present.
With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal state. In front of a police photo showing two children who were sexually abused by their parents, she tortuously cuts into her cuticles until blood drips into a bowl of milk on her lap. On top of the symbolic plane of blood and milk, the physical effect on the viewer of her destructive act of self-mutilation is extreme.
VALIE EXPORT is an Austrian artist. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts.
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Valie Export
VALIE EXPORT: Projekt
Valie Export: BIOGRAPHY
The Body Politic, by Robin Rice
Roswitha Mueller, Valie Export: Fragments of the Imagination, on Oxfordjournals
The practice of love: lesbian sexuality and perverse desire by Teresa De Lauretis (googlebook)
Issues in feminist film criticism Von Patricia Erens (googlebook)
VALIE EXPORT's Films, Avi Feldman, Associate Curator of Avant-Garde Film Jerusalem Film Festival
Expanded Cinema as Expanded Reality, by VALIE EXPORT
Senses of Cinema
Elfriede Jelinek and Valie Export: Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Electronic Arts Intermix
The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
Women artists in the 20th and 21st century, von Uta Grosenick (Googlebook)
Exhibition: re.act.feminism at the Akademie der Künste, March 4, 2009
DIGITAL TRANSIT, An Exhibition of Ars Electronica and MediaLabMadrid
Beyond art: a third culture : a comparative study in cultures, art, and ... (Googlebook)
MEDIA AND PERFORMANCE ART at MOMA
Action Pants: Genital Panic 1969 at Tate
Blogs about: Valie Export
German Women Filmmakers, Course Information at University of Alabama (1998)
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