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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»cuts, one can wear them like a second skin over the first one. [25] Using digital image processing methods, the figures in Inez van Lamsweerde's series «Thank You Thighmaster» (1993), with which the professional fashion photographer gained notoriety in the [more]  |
| 2. Yvonne Volkart «Monstrous Bodies: The Disarranged Gender Body as an Arena for Monstrous Subject Relations» individual through biopolitics. In both «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 [more] |
| 3. Yvonne Volkart «Monstrous Bodies: The Disarranged Gender Body as an Arena for Monstrous Subject Relations» something gone wrong, but normalized conformism and purity of the body itself. The (Apparent) Fluidity of the Genders While in van Lamsweerde's early works the monstrous of future bodies is the dissolution of the female and its simultaneous sexualizing hypertrophy, the [more] |
| 4. Sigrid Schade «The Media/Games of the Doll - Contemporary Artists' Interest in Surrealism» number of names stand for the current discussion on the figure of the doll: 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 [more] |
| 5. Sigrid Schade «The Media/Games of the Doll - Contemporary Artists' Interest in Surrealism» research on ideals of beauty, whose construction is revealed. Feasibilities In her life-size digital photoprints Inez van Lamsweerde also produces artificial humans, who at first glance appear to be real, but at second glance are perceived as construed bodies [more] |
