What does our contemporary obsession with the perfection and performance of the body reveal about the values of our society? And how does it, in turn, relate to our cultural history? Ulrike Lienbacher’s postfeminist practice revisits the body as a contested territory of control and reviews its forms of erotic, and hygienic, rebellion.
Lienbacher widens the debate by inscribing a gender ambiguity into her drawings, photographs, videos, and installations. If today, despite the sexual revolution, the body continues to be under siege, it is due to its insidious status as fodder material within society’s urge to administer, regulate, and inscribe it within the economic field of production and value.
Artist
Ulrike Lienbacher (AT)Katya García-Antón
Katya García-Antón is an independent curator working with art, design and architecture. She worked at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; BBC World Service, London; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Museu de Arte Moderno, Sao Pãulo; IKON Birmingham, UK; and Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (director 2002–2011). She was in the editorial committee for Third Text (2000–2002). She curated the Spanish Pavilions of the Venice Biennale 2011 and the São Paulo Biennale 2004, and co-curated Days Like These, Prague Biennale 2005. In November 2012 Katya Garcia-Anton will launch Gestures in Time (curated with Lara Khaldi), the flagship exhibition of Qalandia International, a new biennial festival for international visual arts in Palestine (directed by Jack Persekian).
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