[spectre] Media Forum Moscow 2007

[EAF Director]

Dear Nina and Andreas,

I tend to look at nudity as an issue of ephemeral concern to both 
Stelarc and Kulik, but in a way, I agree with Andreas's comments that 
certain generalizations in some of the statements are clearly out of 
place.
One can hardly speak of "absent male body" in the works of both of 
the above mentioned, but also with artists such as Rassim,
Zoran Todorovic, etc. etc.

Cheers,

Melentie




At 4:18 AM +0200 6/7/07, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
>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 (...)
>
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