Hi, Just a thought regarding the idea of the female body as a product in this context: this may be grossly generalizing (please correct if wrong) but I've noticed before that female artists who show themselves naked in their work almost always have conventionally beautiful bodies. perhaps this is why they feel comfortable showing them? This particular work just strikes me as sad, and not at all emancipatory.
On 24 April 2014 11:29, marc garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://isabelbrison.com
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