Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brucher, Rosemarie

Titel

Ästhetische Travestie: Zur Inszenierung des Geschlechts in der österreichischen Aktionskunst der 1960er Jahre

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Austrian studies, 2013-12, Vol.46 (4), p.41-65

Ort / Verlag

The University of Nebraska Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article addresses the coherencies linking subjectivity, power, and gender in the Austrian performance art of the late 1960s. It focuses especially on cross-dressing, that is, on performative gender-switching. Based on the confrontation of two exemplary works by Günter Brus and VALIE EXPORT, the following questions are crucial to this study: What kind of subjectivity is negotiated through this identification with "the other"? Furthermore, what type of role-playing challenges traditional sexual power relations and, finally, what differences result from the opposing approaches of the two artists?