VALIE EXPORT

Abstract

"Published to accompany the exhibition Valie Export. The Albertina Museum, Vienna, June 23-October 1, 2023, 577th exhibition of the Albertina Museum. Fotomuseum Winterthur, February 25-May 29, 2023. C/O Berlin Foundation, January 27-May 24, 2024"--Colophon. "Combining selections from her celebrated performance pieces as well as independent projects, Valie Export's photography takes center stage in this unprecedented exploration that offers new insights into the career of an early radical feminist artist. In groundbreaking controversial works such as Touch and Tap Cinema and Action Pants: Genital Panic, Valie Export was one of the first feminist artists to reconsider the ways in which the female body is depicted in conventional film and media. This volume considers how Export's photography plays into these projects, as a means of documentation, as experiments, or as independent works. Beginning in the late 1960s it spans decades of conceptual photographs that critically examine visual images and mass media's modes of functioning, portrayal, and perception. Rarely seen publicly, these photographs afford new insights into Export's oeuvre. They are situated at the nexus of film, video, and body art and causally linked to the socially critical and feminist issues around subject and space, performance and visual image, body and gaze, and femininity and representation. The volume traces Export's photographic work as parallel to her first performance pieces and then later in her career as she investigates all characteristics of the photographic image, from one-point perspective to cropping, to the temporal implications of static individual images. Accompanying the first exhibition to highlighting Export's photographs, this stunning volume was produced in close collaboration with the artist and reflects her exacting standards and vision."-- Foreword / Klaus Albrecht Schröder -- Performance, media analysis, and space : Valie Export and photography / Walter Moser -- Interview with Valie Export / Jean-Franc̦ois Chevrier -- Names / Michael Snow -- Rigorous and unorthodox : Valie Export's expansions in the field of the moving image / Gabriele Jutz -- "The voice is on its way to language now" : on Valie Export's photographs and videos on the Glottis / Monika Faber -- Projection, inscription, resistance, and liberation : on the dynamics of the image of the body in the work of Valie Export / Angela Stief -- List of works.