Syntagma
    Syntagma

    Syntagma

    1983
    18 min
    6.0/5 votes
    Austria
    DirectorValie Export
    Release Year1983

    Synopsis

    The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and sexuality. Valie Export's notion of "body language" poses an ironic relation to these questions that acknowledges "the end of the body" or at least the final break with the way in which we understand it to be a biological, existential, or metaphysical entity. Export has broken away from any notion of unity - either body, space, or time - into the fragmented world of doubling and difference that is caught in representation.

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