Contemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Austrian feminist artist and media pioneer whose performances, films, and photo-actions turned the public sphere into a site of critique, exposing how the gaze, spectatorship, and mass media structure power over bodies. Key works like TAPP und TASTKINO and Aktionshose: Genitalpanik helped define European feminist art in the 1960s and 1970s, linking Vienna Actionism, body politics, and institutional critique to today’s debates on representation and agency.
This tag is part of my Feminism archive.
Start from the hub: Feminism in Art Isn’t a Style: It’s a Battle Over Visibility.
Lynda Benglis in her advertisement (November 1974) From Michelangelo’s Fig Leaf to Instagram: How We Automated the Censorship of the Body We did not abolish the fig
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VALIE EXPORT, Einkreisung, 1976 Austrian Feminist Art: When the Public Sphere Becomes Evidence Start here: This article expands the “public space” thread from my
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