[spectre] Media Forum Moscow 2007

[Andreas Broeckmann]

dear nina,

oleg may appear as an exception, but having seen stelarc present in 
berlin in february, and having seen marcelli antunez present his work 
in madrid recently, i wonder how their extremely physical male nude 
body work relates to the statements made during the panel? (i really 
only make this comment because the juxtaposition of Kelly Oliver's 
statement and Oleg Kulik's exhibition seemed somewhat at odds...)

regards,
-a


>Next day,  June 28,  "Super-Embodiment of  Woman Artists  in
>Media Arts" was presented by Irina Aristarkhova, Nina Czegledy and Elena
>Kovylina. Irina noted in her introduction  that "Nudity and the Nude - have
>become  key issues in contemporary art, theory and politics. Women artists
>face what Foucault called 'hysteriarization of female body', while men artists
>face an issue of 'absent male body' (Kelly Oliver) and  respond to it with
>various strategies. One might argue that both Western  and Eastern
>European  women artists have exhibited 'too much body', and to a certain
>extent find it difficult to leave ?body? behind.

>The schedule left room for us to visit some artists studios, participate in
>the mega-retrospective by Oleg Kulik and Vinzavod (...)