Hi Mark,
Thanks for sharing your latest essay 'Angry women (still?)' to the list...
I do have a some thoughts on the matter.
My first impression was on hearing about "Artist Drops Paint-Filled Eggs
From Her Vagina To Create Art" was, so what? It's boring...
Then you posted on the list regarding your essay on the matter.
I'd say your representation of birth in your essay needs a bit more
unpacking. Because saying "child birth as the one true creative act of
humanity". Leaves us with so much unresolved and unanswered, it's all up
in the air. For instance, it would be less ambiguous if there were
examples in your text that included other female artists ideas on the
subject, with their own societal and artistic contexts adding resonance
to the questions you ask.
Moire's performance is bound within a psychological, 'passive
aggressive' desperation. It is 'not' an act of female liberation; for
her or any other women, it is an act of an individual submitting to
'mediation' as part of the spectacle. It does not challenge anything
other than liberation, emancipation and feminism itself.
In fact, it dis-empowers women artists and puts them in direct
competition with her. I can almost hear the many 'shallow' curators
(male & female) in the traditional realms of the so called
'contemporary' art world - thinking to themselves - oh yes, this will
get media attention.
It is 'not' an act of female empowerment precisely because female
expression in wider society is only allowed to have presence as
celebrity or via their bodies and not their minds. Unless they already
come from a privileged background then they can be involved in social
commentary in the New Statesman or the Guardian etc ;-)
There is no reclaiming of the female identity or female emancipation
here, or related societal liberation if it is wholly reliant on 'female'
body as a product, a commodity within a framework of contemporary art
and mainstream culture dedicated to neo-liberalist values. It is a
contradiction.
To me, it just looks like Moire is performing an art version of Miley
Cyrus's Twerking. Which I suppose is OK, but it means nothing other than
desperation to be seen in terms that only relates to the individual's
own desperate desire to be seen by many, but is this really enough?
Wishing yo well.
marc
Hi NetBees
I know a few of you will have seen/read about**Milo Moire's Plopegg
piece for the 2014 Cologne Art Fair. I'm not sure what I make of it, so
wrote a short jumbled lot of thoughts about it (see second link below).
I was wonder what others make of her work?
http://designtaxi.com/news/365200/Artist-Drops-Paint-Filled-Eggs-From-Her-Vagina-To-Create-Art
http://www.memecortex.net/blog/?p=1094
Cheers all,
Mark
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