ARTH 3520 Study Guide - Final Guide: History Painting, Consumerism, Spencer Tunick
5 Apr 2016
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Thesis #1: many feminist artists use their conceptual art in a political manner to debate and contest the idea of the male gaze. This is her response to critique that her work was masochistic, now instead of being the one to perpetrate the performance, she enabled audience members to be the ones to direct the performance. 72 objects of pleasure/pain lay on table (rose petals, honey, camera, chain, gun/bullet) that one can use on me as desired, i am object . Performance of oppressor & victim (how you conduct yourself as an audience member matters in relation to aggression to passive performer) She had to stand passively to the side of the table while people used items directly on her body. Performance started off benign/slow, people tickled her with feathers or made her hold objects. Around hour 3 people had cut her clothes off and nicked her skin, then one person picks up gun.
