Valie export expanded cinema pdf

The name valie export is an important part of her practice, adopted by the artist in 1967 it represents her rejection of patriarchal structures. Valie export this outdoor action on munichs stachus square translates the concept of expanded cinema and the cinema s fairground roots into the first immediate womens film, as the artist describes her tap and touch cinema. Valie export often written as valie export born may 17, 1940 in linz as waltraud lehner, later waltraud hollinger is an austrian artist. In tap and touch cinema, in 1968, she fashioned a small theater with curtains. In video performance and interactive digital 3d installation art by valie export and jette gejl kristensen article pdf available in journal of aesthetics and. In the first, the cinema is a small box strapped to her naked. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts. Over a period of decades, valie export has created a body of work that from its earliest manifestations in the 1960s employed what was accurately called and what we still call new. Expanded cinema is an elastic name for many sorts of film and projection event. Other variants seek films ontology in the mediums simplest elements, such as the projector lightbeam or the bare bulb. Genital panic, valie export, 1969 this set of posters was produced to commemorate an action performed by valie export in munich in 1968. In 1995 the artist was awarded the generali foundations prize for sculptural works and in 2000 she became the recipient of the oskar kokoschka prize.

That year, despite or due to her upbringing in a convent, she underwent a personal revolution following her arrival in vienna at the height of actionisma countercultural art movement known for graphic bodily mutilations and lawbreaking protests against artistic and societal pretensions. Ever since her early selfportraits in the 1950s, austrian feminist artist valie export has emerged as a pioneer in her field. Expanded cinema bibliography center for visual music. In 1968, tap and touch cinema saw export walk the streets with a miniature styrofoam movie theatre attached to her chest, with a curtain in front and inviting passersby to reach inside and touch her. Some kinds of expanded cinema widen the field of vision so far that they dissolve cinema itself as a separate entity, merging it into cybernetic space, as envisaged in gene youngbloods seminal book of 1970 or in carolee schneemanns manifestolike performance scripts of the same era. Even though valie exports works have featured in a great number of. At full stretch, it embraces the most contradictory dimensions of film and video art, from the vividly spectacular to the starkly materialist. She entered a cinema wearing trousers with a triangle of fabric removed at the crotch and walked between the rows of seated viewers.

This is an edited version of a lecture delivered by valie export at the essential frame austrian independent film 19552003, a twoday program of screenings and talks on austrian independent filmmaking curated by mark webber and held in london, may 31june 1 2003. Export, in this regard, was pretty ahead of her time when it came to probing the effects of the screen. Tap and touch cinema is an example of how reinterpretation can activate the public. Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Valie export expanded cinema as expanded reality senses of cinema 28 2003 can photographs make it so. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and works on.

There will also be a series of artists in conversation including valie export, peter weibel and tony sinden. But no filmstrip is cut she uses material like paper or the human body. Austrian artist valie export is best known for provocative public performances that she described as a form of expanded cinema, in which she used. As a part of her notion of expanded cinema, the body in export s work is continually cast against a screen which becomes the site of. Valie export born may 17 1940 in linz as waltraud lehner is an austrian artist. How genital stroking became an act of feminist rebellion. The pack of smart export cigarettes, an austrian brand associated with working class men, is altered by the artist.

The first generation included nitsch, and frohner hes a normal painter now. Valie export is one of the most important pioneers of on conceptual media art, performance, and film. In 1967, she started signing her works under the name of valie export. Her work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography, sculptures and publications covering contemporary arts. Jessica saxby heads to berlin to meet the austrian radical feminist, performance artist and. In the 1960s, way ahead of her time, valie export invited visitors at her touch cinema performance to view and touch her bare breasts through an open box strapped to her chest.

She has worked as a film artist since 1965, from 1967 under the name valie export. In the expanded cinema works, export developed her performative approach in a. Being an artist as well as a theoretician, her explanations. Expanded cinema as expanded reality by valie export expanded cinema, i. Cybernetic cinema and computer films 883k part five. Export is known for her development of a version of expanded cinema, a way of thinking about film that explores the possibilities of the medium beyond the projection of a film strip. Through a film series called expanded cinema works, she offers a radical approach to the role of women in film history. Her artistic work includes video installations, body performances, expanded cinema, computer animations, photography. Valie export is a contemporary austrian artist known for her photographs and radical performances that enter the public into a discourse regarding the female body and male gaze.

The effects of digital technologies on expanded cinema in. Now in the coda, the camera abandons its genitalcentrism to focus on the ultimate tool, the hand, eminently capable of not only usurping the rule of the penis but transforming the sexual fixations of psychoanalysis into the outward, worldly interactions of export s expanded cinema. Alongside sculpture and installation, her work includes body performances, interactions between body and material, persona performances, conceptual and digital photography, feature films, experimental and documentary films, expanded cinema, video environments and. The aim of the works that valie export created in the 1960s under the generic name expanded cinema was to explore film as both. This touring show brings together works by valie export from 1967 to the present, representing the main elements of her diverse practice, including drawings, performances, conceptual photographs, expanded cinema, videos and installations. Valie export austria 1940 valie export has been one of austrias most prominent artists since the late 1960s. Stan vanderbeeks synthetic multimedia moviedrome of the 1960s, for example, is in high contrast to the analytic and. However, i am going to focus on a lecture given by valie export and published in senses of the cinema. Valie export expanded cinema as expanded reality senses email to the author. She has always been a pioneer, in both her means and her forms of expression. Genital panic both 196869 are both forms of what export terms expanded cinema. Her film ping pong, expanded cinema, is awarded the maraisiades prize for the most political film. When i came to vienna i became friends with all these people, but i wasnt doing things with themi began with expanded cinema. Expanded cinema as expanded reality senses of cinema.

Valie export it started after the viennese literary group, the wiener gruppe, settled down a little. This installation was developed from the work expanded cinema aktion adjungierte dislokationen 1973 and from the action adjungierte dislokation ii, of which it includes, as part of the piece, a series of photographs, a sketch and the recording of the performance. This is an edited version of a lecture delivered by valie export at the essential frame austrian independent film 19552003. In the early 1960s export was exposed to a group of viennese aktionists and poets that would influence her work and theories. The performance has become a key reference point in the history of feminist art, a comment on the sexual objectification of womens bodies on screen, but also as an example of what export calls expanded cinema, the breakingout of film from cinematic conventions into the realms of sculpture, performance, and other media. This book is available in pdf format by individual chapters or as a whole. Expanded cinema as expanded reality, valie export austrianborn valie export is an artist, independent filmmaker, and theoretician who has created works in a variety of media, including documentary and narrative film, video, performance, photography, installation, sculpture, and drawing.

Over a period of decades, valie export has created a body of work that from its earliest manifestations in the 1960s employed what was accurately called and what we still call new media. This examination of the importance of cutting techniques for the constitution of reality in film is one of valie export s first expanded cinema performances. She was influenced by feminism, viennese actionism and expanded cinema. Through her body, export removed the screen and intercepted space to create expanded cinema, exploring medias parameters and dissemination. Her new name was created as both a new, selffashioned identity and an artistic concept, with valie an alternative spelling of her nickname walie and export. In 1968, valie export walked into a porn cinema wielding a. She explores radical questions regarding the conditioning of reality and the artistic representation of mental states. Errors privatepersonal spaces of a cinema and of a photograph. Ellen degeneres funny 1st appearance doing stand up comedy on johnny carsons tonight show duration. The audience and the myth of entertainment 156k part two.