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CRISIS – BLOOD

The artist’s main goal is to use often shocking performances (in which she engages her body) to shock the spectator and emphasize the importance of the subjects scrutinized.  The artist’s body can be perceived as a tool through which she speaks to the public while simultaneously stressing her personal involvement in a particular issue. The use of her body and the symbolic aspect of her work can be seen in one of her best-known works, “Who Can Erase the Traces”, for which she received the Golden Lion award for young artists under the age of thirty at the 2005 Venice Biennial.

artistsGalindo Regina José
placeKarlin Studios
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castGalindo Regina José
cameraJan Vidlička
soundJan Vidlička
editingJan Vidlička
interviewJan Vidlička
categoryReports
published24. 8. 2009
languageČesky / English
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CRISIS – BLOOD
In the lecture, I would like to address the issue of the labour of the artist from the perspective of the feminist artistic work and discuss, how already from the end of the 1970s feminists artists engaged with the issues of the flexible and precarious work, the issues that are also so pertinent in the labour of the artist today. From the perspective of those artists, the exploration of labour opened new dimension how to understand and reflect upon labour of female artist and her emancipated life.
The title Distressed refers not only to desperate working conditions and the condition of the workers, but maybe even to one actual product of textile- the sought after and fashionable „distressed denim". Jeans that are supposed to look used and worn out. In some sort of twisted logic people in rich countries, from where textile factories have been pushed in the competition for the cheapest labour, wear ripped jeans. They uncousciously show the true character of the conditions of its production. As if they were transparents of the impoverished, hung on the naked bodies of the narcissists of the richer part of the worlds.