Bøger af Alfred Weidinger

My Body is a Battlefield offers a comprehensive insight into the work of the Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska, born in Crimea in 1988. Already in her early works she deals with patriarchal structures and the absence of female subjectivity in Ukrainian art. With the annexation of Crimea and the ensuing war, questions of identity and belonging and the themes of border and violence become leitmotifs of her artistic practice. Kulikovska's sculptures are exact copies of her body or individual body parts. Made of unusual materials such as ballistic soap, grease, or epoxy resin, the casts are subject to processes of aging and decay, are modified, transformed, and deconstructed. In her watercolors and drawings, created as series, for example on medical reports and authority forms, she designs bodies that resist the markings and boundaries of the paper as much as the bureaucratic constraints and gender fixations formulated there. Her ceramics-molds of severed limbs and replicas of bodily fluids-are forms of rage and despair in the face of the brutality and horrors of war.Kulikovska shows her body as a site of conflicting emotions and traumatic memories, as a contested arena of ideological attributions and warlike aggression; she asserts herself, drastically and dramatically, against gender and sexual norming, against violence and subjugation.The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Francisco Carolinum in Linz, the artist's first solo exhibition in the German-speaking world.

Der lebendige Ko¿rper im digitalen Zeitalter Die Performance ist seit Jahren ein wesentliches Ausdrucksmittel in der zeitgeno¿ssischen Kunst. Die Ansätze der Ku¿nstler*innen sind vielfältig und haben das konzeptionelle Verständnis von Performance, das sich in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren herausgebildet hat, um neue Formen und Ausdrucksvarianten erweitert. Durch aktuelle technologische Entwicklungen aufgeworfene Fragen, die Dokumentation, Archivierung und das Verhältnis von Performance und digitalen Medien betreffen, sind Ausgangspunkt des Projekts The Non-Fungible Body? Der Katalog erläutert mit umfangreichem Bildmaterial und Texten von Freda Fiala, Geraldine Juärez, Rose Lejeune und Bruce Quek den innovativen Ansatz des Projektes, das Ku¿nstler*innen zusammenbringt, die mit Blick auf das relativ junge Phänomen der NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) die kulturelle Bedeutung von Live-Performance und das Verhältnis vom lebendigen Ko¿rper zu den virtuellen O¿konomien unserer Zeit thematisieren. Der Titel The Non-Fungible Body? dient als Leitmotiv fu¿r Spekulationen zum Thema Performance und Digitalisierung. Während der Ko¿rper und die digitalen Werkzeuge, mit denen er arbeitet, immer schwerer zu trennen sind, bleiben ko¿rperliche Identitäten weiterhin wichtige Träger vielfältiger und widerspru¿chlicher sozialer und politischer Prozesse. The Living Body in the Digital Age Performance has been a key medium in contemporary art for years. Artists have charted diverse approaches and added novel forms and variants of expression to the conceptual understanding of performance established by the pioneers of the genre in the 1960s and 1970s. Questions raised by today's technological developments concerning documentation, archiving, and the relation between performance and digital media mark the point of departure for the project The Non-Fungible Body? The catalogue gathers extensive visual materials and writings by Freda Fiala, Geraldine Juärez, Rose Lejeune, and Bruce Quek to explain the project's innovative design: it convenes artists who examine the cultural significance of live performance and the living body's relation to the virtual economies of our time with a view to the fairly recent phenomenon of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens). The title The Non-Fungible Body? serves as a leitmotif for speculations on performance and digital technology. While the body and the digital tools it employs are ever more difficult to tell apart, physical identities remain important vehicles of multifaceted and contradictory social and political processes.Teilnehmende Ku¿nstler*innen  / Participating artists Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, Marita Bullmann, Yun-Chen Chang, Beatrice Didier, Jan Hakon Erichsen, Maria Kulikovska, David Henry Nobody Jr. in conversation with Anika Meier, Sara Lanner, Sajan Mani, Boris Nieslony, Yiannis Pappas, Jianan Qu, Xavier Le Roy, Sarah Trouche, and Rong Xie (Echo Morgan)