Valie Export in: Europa. Arte informazione / kunst information. Anno III, numero 11 (last issue published)

Ferruccio Fata (direttore) ? Hermann Berger (redazione)

Published by Effedue Verlag, 1976

Quarto, 28 pages, illustrated throughout. Illustrated wrappers. - First edition. Next to the 4 page contributions by Valie Export: ?aktionshose ?genitalpanik? ?selbstportrait?; Bill Beckley: ? cigaret sunset? headings seagulls?; Giuliano della Casa: acronici achron; Silvia Guberti ?embleme?, ?emblemi?; Franco Guerzoni: rolleiflex ? beschreibung; Valie Export: aktionshose ?genitalpanik? ?selbstportrait / pantalone d?azione ?panico genitale? ?autoritratto? ? homo meter; Armando Marocco, Albert Mayr; time-aspects; Annette Messager; Davide Masconi: film 1967; Fried Rosenstock: hidewaway-pieces from performance ?oval?; and Gianni-Emilio Simonetti: teoria e pratica dell?architettura spintanea / theorie und praxis der spontanen architektur. Texts in Italian and German. ?The action that gave rise to the photograph Action Pants: Genital Panic has become the subject of apocryphal art historical legend. EXPORT performed Genital Panic in Munich in an art cinema where experimental film-makers were showing their work. Wearing trousers from which a triangle had been removed at the crotch, the artist walked between the rows of seated viewers, her exposed genitalia at face-level. This confrontation challenged the perceived cliché of women?s historical representation in the cinema as passive objects denied agency. In a 1979 interview with Ruth Askey published in the Los Angeles-based performance magazine High Performance, EXPORT is quoted describing her action as having taken place in a pornographic film theatre. In this version of the story, the artist carried a machine gun and offered her sex to the audience while pointing the gun at people?s heads. As she moved from row to row, people silently got up and left the theatre (High Performance, Vol.4, Issue1, Spring 1981, p.80). Although it fulfills the promise of the image in the poster, this version of events has been emphatically denied by the artist (VALIE EXPORT, p.32). Seller Inventory # 001023

Bibliographic Details

Title: Valie Export in: Europa. Arte informazione /...
Publisher: Effedue Verlag
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine