[spectre] Media Forum Moscow 2007

[czegledy at interlog.com]

Dear Melentie,

thanks for your comments. I copy this letter to Irina,
the comment on the  "absent male body" came from
her introductory text, thus she can provide the
context much better.

nina




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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