- FULLY LOADED: POWER AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE - Artforum
Rape should be a trope, an art-historical subject belonging to the people fallen men have traditionally fucked over Johanna Fateman is a writer, an owner of Seagull Salon in New York, and a frequent contributor to Artforum
- FLESH BLOOD: SEX AND VIOLENCE IN RECENT FRENCH CINEMA - Artforum
Images and subjects once the provenance of splatter films, exploitation flicks, and porn—gang rapes, bashings and slashings and blindings, hard-ons and vulvas, cannibalism, sadomasochism and incest, fucking and fisting, sluices of cum and gore—proliferate in the high-art environs of a national cinema whose provocations have historically
- Christine Wang - artforum. com
Wang openly admits to loving rape porn in a painting bluntly titled Rape Porn, while observing the atrocities of violence against women and its societal foundations in the aforementioned statement
- WHEN IN VIDEODROME: TRAVELS IN THE NEW FLESH
Like the pretty young rape victims whom such shows reveal as sexually active—thus getting what they deserve by forcing innocent men to attack them in self-defense—Madonna’s shamelessness dictates she burn at the TV stake As America’s first official porno queen, Madonna can only revel in such reactions, even as she puzzles over them
- Pussy Riot Cofounder’s Exhibition Vandalized in Austria
Miscreants in Austria on December 7 attacked an exhibition by Nadya Tolokonnikova, cofounder of Russian anarchist art-punk collective Pussy Riot
- Bruce LaBruce shares his Top Ten - Artforum
My movie is structured like a porn narrative, with a decided emphasis on libertine and highly explicit sex scenes, without sacrificing the deeply spiritual dimension of Teorema —which, after all, was made by a devoutly religious homosexual Marxist pauper-Catholic atheist!
- A THIN LINE - Artforum
Robert Altman, 3 Women, 1977, 35 mm, color, sound, 124 minutes Production still Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) and Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall) ONE OF THE PRESENTING symptoms of my Shelley Duvall fandom is amateur numerology The actress, among the most totemic and inimitable performers of the New American Cinema, was born on the seventh day of the seventh month of 1949 She made seven
- GROUP MATERIAL - Artforum
In that piece, a group of women bathed in tubs filled respectively with eggs, blood, and clay, among other actions, while an audio recording of women relating their experiences of rape played The corporeal at times abject nature of this work was characteristic of the Southern California performance scene of the time
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