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Challenging the public to engage with a real woman instead of with images on a screen, in these works she illustrated her notion of "expanded cinema," in which film is produced without celluloid; instead the artist's body activates the live context of watching.
Apr 4, 2024 · Valie Export, TAPP und TASTKINO (TAP and TOUCH CINEMA) 1968/1989 Favorite. Practitioner: VALIE EXPORT. Date: Jan 1 1968. Location: Austria. At age twenty-eight, Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to VALIE EXPORT, in all uppercase letters, to announce her presence in the Viennese art scene.
Export's well-known performance piece Tapp-und-Tast-Kino (Tap and Touch Cinema) was performed in ten European cities, including Vienna and Munich, from 1968 to 1971.
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From an early age, VALIE EXPORT was attuned to the social injustices around her and particularly to gender inequality. She recalls noticing that "something was really not right, that boys were allowed to do so much more than girls." Raised amongst women, she was born Waltraud Lehner in 1940 in Linz, Austria and lived with her mother, a teacher, and...
From 1955 to 1958, EXPORT studied at the School of Applied Arts in Linz. There she was first introduced to painting and photography. During this time Export was briefly married and had two children. She left her children with her sister in order to go to Vienna to study design at the National Technical School, before regaining custody in the early-...
During the late 1970s and 1980s, EXPORT's interest shifted from performance art to intermedia, particularly film and video installation, creating a distinctive style that has received attention from art historians such as Elisabeth Lebovici. Thematically, psychoanalysis became increasingly important for the artist, reflecting its broader post-war r...
In the early 1980s EXPORT was invited to teach in the US, being a professor and guest professor in universities such as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the California State University San Francisco. From the late 1980s and 1990s, she started to gain more recognition, which has increased in recent years as...
EXPORT was a pioneer of engagements with intermedia and this has been influential on subsequent generations of new media practitioners, particularly in relation to Feminism. In the last decade, there have been a number of exhibitions and screenings dedicated to her work and EXPORT's early performance work has become an important touchstone for the ...
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- May 17, 1940
- Linz, Austria
Valie Export. This outdoor action on Munich's Stachus square translates the concept of expanded cinema and the cinema's fairground roots into the ‘first immediate women’s film’, as the artist describes her ‘Tap and Touch Cinema’.
Dec 10, 2019 · These radical interventions included the historic performance TAP and TOUCH CINEMA (1968), in which Export invited passersby on the street to reach into a small curtained theater box constructed around her naked torso.
Oct 1, 2023 · This exhibition ranges from EXPORT’s pioneering early feminist actions such as the TAPP und TASTKINO [Tap and Touch Cinema] (1968) to her provocative performances (ASEMIA – The Inability to Express Oneself through Facial Expressions, 1973) and multilayered installations (I [beat (it)] II, 1980) and on to the group of works known as the Body ...
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