From a lecture given on 7 November 2011 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, and on 1 December 2011 at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Top Girls focuses on media images, since the late 1990s, which were intended to provoke some, imagined group of (always humourless) feminists. These images appeared, in a celebratory fashion, to reverse the clock, turning it back to some earlier pre-feminist moment, while at the same time doing so in a rather tongue-in-cheek kind of way. The prevailing use of irony seemed to exonerate the culprits from the crime of offending against what was caricatured as a kind of extreme, and usually man-hating feminism, while at the same time acknowledging that other, more acceptable, forms of feminism, had by now entered into the realms of common sense and were broadly acceptable.
This article can be found in miscellaneous articles, folder 5A.
Photo documentation (12 photographs). 4th and 5th September 2010; exhibited as film and sculpture in the Fashion and Art Biennale in Seoul.
Touring Art Project – London and Milan 2 – 12 April 2010. 2 publications (small and large editions). Movana Chen’s work involves the simple act of knitting thousands of shreds of otherwise disposable magazine paper together into various structures, clothing and containers as a defiant act of resistance to consumer culture.Further documentation of connected project Body Containers can be found at P1512
Two articles dedicated to the artist and her work.
This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).
Explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Take the chance to sing and dance to a pop-song while being filmed in a fantasy world. Within 24 hours your very own video will be posted on Youtube for the world to enjoy. This satirical piece exposes our longing to be, at least once in our lives, a star. The acronym says it all: “P.O.P. – The Politics of the Popular”.