The Paradox of Preservation: Abramović Re-performing VALIE EXPORT
The following essay examines Marina Abramović’s re-performance of VALIE EXPORT’s Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969) as part of her landmark 2005 series, Seven Easy Pieces , at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Marina Abramovic re-performing VALIE EXPORT Act...
VALIE EXPORT’s original act was a "guerilla" protest against the passive consumption of the female body in cinema. Wearing crotchless trousers and carrying a machine gun, she forced cinema-goers to confront a "real woman" rather than a screen image. Marina Abramovic - Artforum Seven Easy Pieces