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Details
- Alternative title
- Tapp und Tastkino
- Date
- 1969
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- digital tape (betacam) shown as single channel digital video, black and white, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:01:08 min; aspect ratio: 4:3
- Credit
- Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 2007
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 312.2007
- Copyright
- © Valie Export. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
- Artist information
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Valie Export
Works in the collection
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About
'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
Shown in 2 exhibitions
2008 Biennale of Sydney: revolutions-forms that turn, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, 18 Jun 2008–07 Sep 2008
See you at the barricades, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 May 2015–29 Nov 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Macushla Robinson, See you at the barricades, Sydney, 2015, 21 (illus.), 46.
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