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Hack the
Gender!
Pink networks of tactical and playful strategies
lecture by Tatiana Bazzichelli on hacker ethics and networks entangled
with the precarious and the sexual
Škuc
Gallery
October 6, 2007 at 6 pm
in collaboration with the Festival
Mesto Zensk (City of Women)
June 22nd 2007 at 7 pm
Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary
Art
in collaboration with Mesto
Žensk
(City of Woman)
and Kapelica Gallery
presents
Jennifer
Doyle
Between Friends
Sexual Generosity in Two Reenactments
Jennifer Doyle introduces her new work Between Friends
that builds on her latest publication Sex Objects - Art
and the Dialectics of Desire (University of Minnesota Press,
2006) focusing particularly on her work on Andy
Warhol's film "Blue Movie" (1970). Official clips of this rarely
seen film, kindly provided by the Andy
Warhol Museum, will be screened during the lecture.
Jennifer Doyle is associate professor of English at the University
of California, Riverside. She is coeditor, with Jonathan
Flatley and José
Esteban Munoz, of Pop Out: Queer Warhol.
Sex Objects - Art and the
Dialectics of Desire
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"A
beautiful and provocative book. Doyle convincingly argues
that visual culture is inherently sexed and that the study
of images tells us something crucial about how we inhabit
the world." (Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing
the Subject)
" Doyle demonstrates a sure understanding of the
latest methodology and critical possibilities of queer theory."
(Midwest Book Review) |
The declaration that a work of art is "about sex" is often
announced to the public as a scandal after which there is nothing
else to say about the work or the artist-controversy concludes a
conversation when instead it should begin a new one.
Moving beyond debates about pornography and censorship, Jennifer
Doyle shows us that sex in art is as diverse as sex in everyday
life: exciting, emotional, traumatic, funny, even profoundly boring.
Deftly interweaving anecdotal and personal writing with critical,
feminist, and queer theory, she reimagines the relationship between
sex and art in order to better understand how the two meet-and why
it matters.
Sex Objects examines the reception and frequent misunderstanding
of highly sexualized images, words, and performances of the past
and present. In chapters on the "boring parts" of Moby-Dick,
the scandals that dogged the painter Thomas Eakins, the role of
women in Andy Warhol's Factory films, "bad sex" and Tracey
Emin's crudely evocative line drawings, and L.A. artist Vaginal
Davis's parodies of Vanessa Beecroft's performances, Sex Objects
challenges simplistic readings of sexualized art and instead investigates
what such works can tell us about the nature of desire.
In Sex Objects, Doyle offers a creative and original exploration
of how and where art and sex connect, arguing that to proclaim a
piece of art "about sex" reveals surprisingly little about
the work, the artist, or the spectator. Deftly interweaving anecdotal
and personal writing with critical, feminist, and queer theory,
she reimagines the relationship between sex and art in order to
better understand how the two meet-and why it matters.
Related event:
Vaginal
Davis as Vanessa Beecroft - Erdgeist, Earth Spirit #27-29 10827
a performance by Ms Vaginal Davis
realized in the frame of the platform RE:akt!
June 21st 2007 at 9 pm at Kapelica
Gallery, Ljubljana
Satellite
Night Fever
A multi-screen video projection by Janez Janša
Tuesday, September 26th, 2006 at 9 pm
KiBela
gallery, MMC Kibla
Maribor, Slovenia
in the frame of the platform WJ-s created by Anne Roquigny and Stephane
Kyles
co-production: MMC Kibla, Aksioma, Intima, GingerProd
Photo:
Aksioma
Syndrome
Reality
a presentation by Lucas
Bambozzi
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 5 pm
Informacijski
center Moderne galerije
Tomšiceva 14, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Organized by Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Photo:
Nada Zgank/Memento
Aksioma
- Anti-entertaiment Media Art Productions
Janez Janša presents the work of Aksioma
- Institute for Contemporary
Observatori 2006
Museo de las Ciencias Príncipe Felipe Valencia
Ciudad
de las Artes y de las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain
Sunday, May 7 at
6:30 pm.
In collaboration with
LaAgencia, Madrid
CEC ArtsLink, 435 Hudson Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY, USA
Wednesday, April 5 at
6:30 pm.
In collaboration with the Consulate General
of Slovenia in NY.
New
York University
Department of Performance Studies
New York, NY
Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 11 a.m.
State
University of New York at Stony Brook
Department of Art
Stony Brook, New York, NY
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 14 a.m.
MMC Kibla, Ulica kneza Koclja 9
2000 Maribor, SLOVENIA
Friday, January 27 at
6:30 pm.
Collaborate,
participate, perform!
an event presented by Aksioma -Institute
for Contemporary Art and Intima
in the frame of the Piemonte
Share Festival
Project:
Problemarket.com
- the Problem Stock Exchange
Photo: Pablo Balbontin Arenas
Project:
SilentCell
Network
Photo: Pablo Balbontin Arenas
Project:
DemoKino
- Virtual Biopolitical Agora
Photo: Aksioma
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