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VALIE EXPORT
14-20 October 2004, National Film Theatre, London
Valie Export is a filmmaker, multi-media and performance artist whose
challenging work, which fundamentally explores the intersection between the
human body and the technological media, has pushed the boundaries of
feminism and the avant-garde. As an artist not confined to the gallery, she
also made experimental short films and complex feature-length narratives.
Her expanded cinema and performance pieces of the 1960s (often with the
participation Peter Weibel, with whom she collaborated on her first two
features) gained attention not only in the underground art scene, but also
in national television and newspapers. In the wake of the Viennese Actionism
movement, Export¹s ŒFemale Actionism¹ was a radical protest that aimed to
realign society¹s attitude to women and redress the historical portrayal of
the female body in art. In the performance, Tapp und Tast Kino (Touch
Cinema), Export critiqued the voyeurism of cinema by appearing in the
streets of Vienna wearing a box covered by curtains through which the public
were invited to feel her naked chest.
Export initially took an extreme and provocative stance to resist the
traditional modes of female representation and gain an independence of
thought and expression. Sexually explicit and physically jarring, the early
short films can be difficult viewing in Mann & Frau & Animal she is seen
masturbating and menstruating and in Š Remote Š Remote Š she uses a knife to
push back the cuticles of her fingertips until they bleed, before immersing
them in milk. Not for the squeamish or puritanical viewer.
Having first exploded sexual and cultural taboos, Export focussed on the
responsibility of the individual in the social environment. With the more
conventional features she made in the 1970s and 80s, narrative filmmaking is
used as a vehicle to explore ideas evident in her visual art within a more
accessible format. Export integrates the language of commercial cinema with
quotations from her videotapes, performances and photographic works, which
often appear as discreet sections or in dialogue with the plot.
Working with the moving image, Export uses time and space to scrutinise the
different layers between reality and the illusion of reality. Her analysis
of corruption and the media reached an acute point in the mid-80s, when the
plot of The Practice of Love was based on a contemporary arms dealing
scandal that was played out in the Austrian press whilst the film was being
made.
Export¹s work is transgressive and political: an art intended to provoke
social change. Concerned with identity, conscience and communication, it was
central to the powerful feminist discourse that developed in the 1960s and
70s and is just as relevant today. This season at the NFT, and a major
exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, is a vital opportunity to survey the work
of one of the most original and influential figures of contemporary art.
Valie Export NFT season curated by Mark Webber. With thanks to Ian White.
Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
The Valie Export exhibition at Camden Arts Centre is on view from 10
September 7 November 2004.
www.bfi.org.uk/nft
www.camdenartscentre.org
...
VALIE EXPORT
Thur 14 Oct 8.40 NFT2; Tue 19 Oct 6.20 NFT2
INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES
Anna is a photographer who becomes increasingly obsessed with morbid subject
matter as she undergoes a psychological breakdown. Convinced that the world
is being taken over by the Hyksos an invisible enemy that appear as
immaculate duplicates of human beings she endures a series of surreal and
delusional episodes. Invisible Adversaries investigates the control and
influence the media exerts on our lives, whilst also critiquing
dysfunctional relationships, bourgeois society and global politics. Export¹s
first feature is a tour-de-force that integrates her visual work in
photography, performance and installation art with elements of a science
fiction narrative.
Invisible Adversaries (Unsichtbare Gegner)
Austria 1976. With Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel. 104 mins.
Fri 15 Oct 6.20 NFT2; Tue 19 Oct 8.40 NFT2
MENSCHENFRAUEN
Through the interrelated story of four women and their relationships with
philanderer Franz, Menschenfrauen (literally translated as ŒHuman Women¹)
explores the women¹s place in a man¹s world and the double standards that
are perpetuated by society. Whilst the film has a strong narrative drive, it
is laced with formal and visual experimentation, and the dark humour does
little to diminish the harsh feminist stance. Elisabeth, a self-sacrificing
mother, is betrayed by an unappreciative son and abusive partner. Anna and
Petra, both pregnant by Franz, turn to each other for affection and support,
whilst Gertrude is driven to take more decisive action.
MENSCHENFRAUEN
Austria 1980. With Renée Felden, Maria Martina, Susanne Widl. 100 mins.
Sat 16 Oct 8.40 NFT2; Wed 20 Oct 6.20 NFT2
THE PRACTICE OF LOVE
The Practice of Love is a thriller in which television journalist Judith
Wiener investigates the events that led to a fatal subway accident,
revealing facts which implicate her two lovers in a terrorist conspiracy.
Alfons seems out of his depth with his involvement with an arms smuggling
racket, while Joseph is a respected psychologist who appears unable to
manage his own emotional affairs. The film explores what goes on just below
the surface, and how this affects private and public behaviour.
THE PRACTICE OF LOVE (Die Praxis der Liebe)
Austria 1984. With Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Vogler, Hagnot Elischka. 90 mins.
Sun 17 Oct 6.20 NFT2 (*); Wed 20 Oct 8.40 NFT 2
MEDIAL ANAGRAMS [+ VALIE EXPORT IN PERSON*]
Export¹s work in film and video often focuses on the meaning, transformation
and identity of signs and the way they are interpreted and represented as
reality by the technological media. The visceral early films MANN & FRAU &
ANIMAL and Š REMOTE Š REMOTE Š address these issues in a direct and explicit
manner. SYNTAGMA, from 1983, is a complex visual montage in which her entire
film, expanded cinema and visual art techniques are concentrated into a work
that explores the female body as sign. The screening also includes A PERFECT
PAIR, an allegorical depiction of consumer lust from the portmanteau film
Seven Women Seven Sins, INTERRUPTED LINE and the video works SEEING SPACE
AND HEARING SPACE and THE DUALITY OF NATURE.
Total running time c100 mins.
(*) In a rare public appearance on 17 October, Valie Export will be present
to discuss her work with writer and curator Ian White.
Full programme of MEDIAL ANAGRAMS screening :-
Mann & Frau & Animal, 1973, colour, sound, 10 mins (16mm)
... Remote ... Remote ..., 1973, colour, sound, 10 mins (16mm)
Interrupted Line, 1971-72, b/w, silent. 3 mins (16mm)
Raumsehen Und Raumhören, 1974, b/w, sound, 20 mins (video)
Syntagma, 1983, colour, sound, 18 mins (16mm)
Ein Perfektes Paar, Oder Die Unzucht Wechselt Ihre Haut, 1986, colour,
sound, 12 mins (video)
Die Zweiheit Der Natur, 1986, colour, sound, 2 mins (video)
...
All screenings at the National Film Theatre, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT
(Nearest Tube: Waterloo)
Standard Tickets: £7.90 / NFT Members £6.90 / concessions £6.00 (on day of
screening only)
Booking in person at the NFT / Box Office telephone 020 7928 3232 / Book
online at www.bfi.org.uk/nft
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