[spectre] Media Forum Moscow 2007

[czegledy at interlog.com]

dear Andreas,

the Mediaforum  theme coinciding with Oleg's exhibition
happened to be incidental -   the brief report of the
panel discussion offered only a short overview
as I wrote to Melentie, Irina could provide a better
overall  context for the statement.
nina


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 (...)