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Categories: Action
Keywords: Emancipation | Gender | Body
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Verena Kuni «Mythical Bodies II. Cyborg configurations as formations of (self-)creation in the imagination space of technological (re)production (II): The promises of monsters and posthuman anthropomorphisms» Marie-Luise Angerer «Postsexual Bodies. The Making of ... Desire, Digital»
Works by ORLAN:
Ceci est mon corps ... ceci est mon logiciel: Omniprésence Refiguration / Self-Hybridation
Check as well:
ORLAN
«The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan»
In «The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan,» the artist underwent facial surgery in order to make specific characteristic features from the world of art history appear more alive. Her ‹models› were Venus, Diana, Europa, Psyche, and Mona Lisa. In the process, not only were her face and body treated for the first time as a collage and manipulated (as demonstrated in the 1970s, for example, by Valie Export, Ulrike Rosenbach, and by Orlan herself), but also permanently demonstrated in keeping with a consciously anti-aesthetical criteria—since Orlan’s operations were also staged as medial events for the video camera. The consistently practiced artistic pose and stylization of the self leads here to the artificiality of all the operative corrections becoming heightened to the negative extreme, and manifesting themselves in their own hybrid state.
Also see the exhibitions «Omniprésence» (1993) and «Ceci est mon corps...ceci est mon logiciel».
Rudolf Frieling
