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absolute film: 3 Text passages
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1.  Yvonne Volkart «Unruly Bodies. The Effect Body As a Place of Resistance»Running wild: «The Office Killer» In the film «The Office Killer» from 1996 American artist Cindy Sherman shows a woman whose job is transformed to part-time work from home. She’s on call as a result of the deregulation, [more]  |
| 2. Sigrid Schade «The Media/Games of the Doll - Contemporary Artists' Interest in Surrealism» Katrin Freisager, Kirsten Geisler, Lynn Hershman, Inez van Lamsweerde, Victorine Müller, Yves Netzhammer, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Judy Fox, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Kiki Smith. The interest in the doll by each of these artists is individually motivated [more] |
| 3. Sigrid Schade «The Media/Games of the Doll - Contemporary Artists' Interest in Surrealism» by Hans Bellmer, who is considered to be one of the German Surrealists, are e.g. a point of reference for the American artist Cindy Sherman, who cites the Bellmer doll elements in her photographs while at the same time forcing open conventional gender constructions. [more] |
