Collection
Valie Export
(Austria 17 May 1940– )
- Title
- Touch cinema
- Year
- 1969
- Media categories
- Time-based media, DVD, Video
- Materials used
- video, black and white, sound, 01:08 min
- Dimensions
- Credit
- Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 2007
- Accession number
- 312.2007
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
'Touch Cinema' is a document of Valie Export's famous street performance, in which the public was invited to touch her inside a curtained box attached to the artist's upper torso. The work is a witty and confrontational comment on the objectification of women's bodies.
(Electronic Arts Intermix website http://www.eai.org access 7/9/11)- Exhibition history (1)
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Revolutions - Forms That Turn: 2008 Biennale of Sydney:
- Artspace, Woolloomooloo 18 Jun 2008–07 Sep 2008
- Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, Sydney 18 Jun 2008–07 Sep 2008
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 18 Jun 2008–07 Sep 2008
