I want to take a nude photo of myself, print it out, rip it up and then scan it back in.
Kind of like Bill Henson, but my way (thank you very much to Dean for showing me Bill Henson).
Why? Because I love Carolee Schneeman. She is my new found inspiration and idol.
I want to make a tribute to her, particularly a response to her gorgeous work Eye Body: 36 Transformative Actions [1963]. NSFW (Not Safe For Work)
I want to make a tribute to Schneeman's hard work in freeing female sexuality expression. Because I believe what she worked hard to express in her artwork, her ideas she tried to conveyed and her liberation in female sexual expression, are dead.
I believe that something of being 'female', 'female sexuality' and 'the sexual female' has been abused, forced into hiding, or left to die.
Female Sexuality is dead.
And I want to know why.
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All in favour of Alice taking a nude photo of herself. [a chorus of yes' ring out around the planet] I do hope you follow through with this.
I also don't know why female sexuality is dead. Might it be damn political correctness, faux-feminism and the prostitution (sexing up) of everything around us? I think so. Sex is so 'meh' to me now. Schneeman's work does something to challenge this. Its provocative and contentious nature really does something to assault the mind and its preconceptions of something that used to be so moving; sacred almost. She is certainly one to be admired.
Martin.
Thanks, good to know I have your support. :P
My thinking is much along the same line as you. Though, of course, we would both agree it would be a lot more obnoxiously complex than that.
I'm thinking of using the Pussycat Dolls as an example of what you're on about...
Now, wouldn't that be interesting?
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