{"id":2659,"date":"2021-07-13T09:56:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lostwomenart.de\/?post_type=artist&p=2659"},"modified":"2021-07-13T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T07:56:14","slug":"valie-export","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.lostwomenart.de\/en\/artist\/valie-export\/","title":{"rendered":"Valie Export"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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\u201cArt must be aggressive.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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VALIE EXPORT was one of the most radical champions of women\u2019s rights during the women\u2019s movement of the 1970s, and today she is considered an icon of feminist art. For decades, the Austrian artist has explored the theme of her own body, which became her most important artwork, even being utilized as a weapon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\t

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Her body as a vehicle for scandal<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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VALIE EXPORT has always liked to provoke. She shocked conservative society with public performances such as her \u201cTapp- und Tastkino\u201d (\u201cTap and Touch Cinema\u201d) of 1968, in which she strapped a box resembling a television over her naked chest and invited people in the street to touch her breasts. In 1969 she followed this with \u201cAktionshose Genitalpanik\u201d (\u201cAction Pants: Genital Panic\u201d), which once again outraged public morals. Through her daring performances, EXPORT created iconic images that have burned themselves into the collective visual memory: the artist writhing naked on shards of glass; leading her male companion through the city on a dog\u2019s lead; scraping off her cuticles until they bleed… This is art that hurts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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\u201cMy body is the seam, my body is the interface.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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An icon in her own lifetime<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n
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The sheer diversity of EXPORT\u2019s artistic approaches is astonishing. In her long career, she has realized performance and concept art, worked as a photographer and filmmaker, and experimented with lasers and computer art. Yet for many years she was ignored in her homeland. After years of neglect, in the 1990s her works appeared on the international stage \u2013 at documenta, Venice Biennale, MoMA and the Tate Modern. Today, EXPORT is considered a leading pioneer of feminist action art and an icon of 20th century art history, who has influenced generations of female artists. There is even a research centre dedicated to her life\u2019s work \u2013 VALIE EXPORT Center Linz, which contextualizes and researches her works for posterity. Thus VALIE EXPORT is already going down in art history and the history of women\u2019s emancipation during her own lifetime.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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