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Categories: Film
Keywords: Body
Works by Valie Export:
Rounding off
Adjugated Dislocations I + II From the Underdog File Autohypnosis Images of Contact Body Sign Action Cutting The Birth Madonna Eros/ion Facing a Family Body Superimpositions with Historical Reproductions o.T. Ping Pong Seeing and Hearing Space Visual Text: Finger Poem Split Reality Fixed Identity Tap and Touch cinema Touching Venus and Mars Time and Countertime Train Fitting
Valie Export
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Human behaviour – in contrast to that of machines (animals) – is influenced by past events, no matter how long ago they occurred. This has led to the existence of a spiritual para-time that runs parallel to objective time and is constantly subject to the influence of the prayers of fear and guilt, of the incapability to overcome, of deformations that tear open the skin, of visual manifestations. I point to something representing past and present.
Valie Export
With sometimes painful directness, Valie Export conducts a psychological investigation of the body in this film performance, externalizes an internal state. In front of a police photo showing two children who were sexually abused by their parents, she tortuously cuts into her cuticles until blood drips into a bowl of milk on her lap. On top of the symbolic plane of blood and milk, the physical effect on the viewer of her destructive act of self-mutilation is extreme.
