Valie Export

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Valie Export: Time and Countertime Foreword by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Stella Rollig. Introduction by Angelika Nollert. Texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Yilmaz Dziewior, Elke Krasny, Hanne Loreck, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Letizia Ragaglia, Brigitte Reutner, Johanna Schwanberg, Berta M. Sichel.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865608741
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Valie Export: Archiv Text by Yilmaz Dziewior, Jürgen Thaler, Astrid Wege. Whether tattooing a garder-belt onto her thigh before a live audience or wedging her body into the recesses of urban architecture, Valie Export has combated patriarchal structures and cast off inhibitions
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Valie Export

Valie Export: Archiv

Text by Yilmaz Dziewior, Jürgen Thaler, Astrid Wege.
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz

Whether tattooing a garder-belt onto her thigh before a live audience or wedging her body into the recesses of urban architecture, Valie Export has combated patriarchal structures and cast off inhibitions throughout a career that has consistently refused to conform to any one genre. Perhaps best known for her early experimentations in expanded cinema and her performances of feminist Media Aktionism, Export has amassed a vast oeuvre spanning feature film, digital photography, sculpture and installation. Archive amasses all of this material and more, excavating Export’s own collection of documentation, preparatory drawings, scripts, posters, Polaroids, newspaper clippings and correspondence to provide an unprecedented overview. Each step of the creation process for iconic pieces such as “Tap and Touch Cinema,” “Action Pants: Genital Panic” and “BODY SIGN ACTION” are explored along with never-before-seen art objects and brand new pieces, making this volume the definitive Valie Export anthology.

Valie Export: Time and Countertime

Foreword by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Stella Rollig. Introduction by Angelika Nollert. Texts by Sabeth Buchmann, Yilmaz Dziewior, Elke Krasny, Hanne Loreck, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Letizia Ragaglia, Brigitte Reutner, Johanna Schwanberg, Berta M. Sichel.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Having quickly tired of life as an editor and extra in the Austrian film industry, in 1967 Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to Valie Export and plunged into the violent and often blood-soaked world of Viennese performance art and the extremist "Actions" of Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. Like them, Export subjected her body to pain, but where their work was inevitably drawn towards a religious idea of catharsis, Export politicized the inscription of women's bodies in terms of media representation, declaring her project as explicitly feminist. Export soon turned to video to record her performances and began to remove her person from her work, as in her now-famous 1971 video "Facing a Family." Today, across more than four decades of activity, Export has built a large and rigorous oeuvre comprising performance, photography, film and media installations. This volume surveys her career.