Silvia Eiblmayr, audio recording, lecture 2009. re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Silvia Eiblmayr
The “performative impulse” - a look back on some transgressive scenes of 20th-century art

Silvia Eiblmayr is an Austrian art historian and curator, based in Vienna. Between 1998 and 2008, she was the director of Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, after two years at Salzburger Kunstverein (1993-1995). She has published internationally and works internationally as a freelance educator at various Universities. In 2019 she received the prestigious Austrian Award for Art criticism (Staatspreis für Kunstkritik).

The transgression of canonized forms of representation in modernism which were triggered by new techniques for producing images was accompanied by a "performative impulse" which turned the image into a stage. Embedded in these scenarios is a subversion of the "dominant fiction" (Kaja Silverman) of what is "masculine" and what is "feminine" – a decisive step within feminist criticism of conventional pictorial politics from the 1960s onward.

Format
Audio Document

Document media
Lecture

Issue date
2009

To be seen in
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today, Conference and Live Performances, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 23.1.2009, 2:15 pm