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Valie Export
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Valie Export, an innovator in the spheres of performance and cinema, created the philosophy of “Feminist Actionism” and used the female body in multimedia performances in order to criticise the male spectatorship. In the 1960s the artist experimented predominately in the framework of ‘Expanded Cinema’, investigating the possibility of replacing film materials (screen, projector, etc.) with other analogous techniques and materials, or concentrating on the situation of the interaction/perception of the film or on the opposition of actors/audience. Pieces such as the “TAPP- und TASTKINO” (“TOUCH CINEMA”, 1968) and “Aktionshose: Genitalpanik” (“Action Pants: Genitalpanic”, 1969), for example, which are concerned with the ideological effect of cinema, exclusively take the human body as their material. EXPORT’s first serial conceptual photography exploration, “Sehtext: Fingergedicht” (Finger Poem, 1968–1973), had also been a performance demonstrating the body as medium of communication and information. In 1972 EXPORT began to work on the series “Körperkonfigurationen in der Architektur” (“Body Configurations in Architecture”, 1972–1982). The exhibition at NCCA shows a selection of the last four decades and focuses on her body and installation work of the 1960s and 1970s. On top of this she has developed a new installation for her presentation in Moscow which is orientated on the general aspects of politics.
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A cooperation project between the Cultural Department of the City Council of Vienna and Springerin Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna
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- Wien Kultur
- Art Association of Vienna with special support from the Cultural Affairs Office of the City of Vienna
- Erste Bank
 A full-length article about the project will be in the catalogue of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art which is
coming out on the 1st March.
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