Presented in association with CounterPulse
Admission: $15 General / $12 Cinematheque Members
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My artistic work centres on the human body as medium of information, as signal bearer of meaning and communication. I occupy myself with the pictorial representation of mental states, with the sensations of the body when it loses its identity, when the ego gnaws its way through the scraps of skin, when steel casings straighten the joints and the worn-out identity is nailed with steel pins to modern mythomania… I try to shape the social structures (power current) and standards (mutilations) of life into a metanoia of pictures. (Valie Export, 1980)
Artist Valie Export (b. Linz, Austria, 1940) is known for a body of film, video, performance and installation work focusing on the embodied position of the female artist situated in the contemporary patriarchal dystopia. Emerging from the same post-war context of generational reckoning that spawned Viennese Aktionism, Export’s work eschews the Aktionists’ self-abusing quests for catharsis, creating instead intimately mediated performances, that, while just as confrontational and assertively body-based, present darker critiques of media and representation while exploring the politics of eroticism and presenting subtly bitter attacks on bourgeois consumption and relations. On the occasion of the digitization of Export’s complete works by sixpackfilm, Cinematheque is proud to present this selection of films, videos and performance documentations by Valie Export. (Steve Polta)
Program:
- Selbstportrait mit Kopf (Self-Portrait with Head) (1966–1967) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, b&w, 4 minutes.
- Body Tape (1970) by Valie Export; video, b&w, 4 minutes.
- Mann & Frau & Animal (Man & Woman & Animal) (1970–1973) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, b&w, 8 minutes.
- Hauchtext (Breath Text: Love Poem) (1970-1973) by Valie Export; video, 2 minutes.
- Facing a Family (1971) by Valie Export; video, 5 minutes.
- Remote… Remote… (1973) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, color, 10 minutes.
- Hyberbulie (1973) by Valie Export; video, 7 minutes.
- Syntagma (1984) by Valie Export; 16mm screened as digital video, color, b&w, 20 minutes.
- Die Zweiheit der Natur (The Duality of Nature) (1986) by Valie Export; video, 2 minutes.
All exhibition files from sixpackfilm
