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Nam June Paik : 2 Text passages
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1.  Verena Kuni «Mythical Bodies II. Cyborg configurations as formations of (self-)creation in the imagination space of technological (re)production (II): The promises of monsters and posthuman anthropomorphisms»attached female extremities to male torsos. Compared with the smooth doll bodies we encounter in «Thank You Thighmaster,» the irritation increases in as much as these are not media propagated, socially sanctioned physical ideals, but rather [more]  |
| 2. Yvonne Volkart «Monstrous Bodies: The Disarranged Gender Body as an Arena for Monstrous Subject Relations» «Faith, Honor and Beauty» (1992) by the artist duo Aziz & Cucher and Inez van Lamsweerde's photoseries «Thank you Thighmaster» (1993), gender, pubic- and body hair as well as the nipples are erased using a digital process. The bodies of these young [more] |
