Valie Export : Fragments of the Imagination

An early, groundbreaking radical performance artist, Valie Export created a philosophy of ""Feminist Actionism"" and in multimedia performances used the female body to critique male spectatorship. Roswitha Mueller examines Export's performance and installation work. her photography. her avant-garde film experiments and her four feature films. and her critical writings and interviews. Valie Export's primary object of study is the female human body, and as a multimedia artist, she has merged the discourses of the avant-garde and of feminism to reappropriate women's gestures, postures, images, and rights. This comprehensive and extensively illustrated study also includes an interview with Export.