Interpreting Body Art though a feminist lens - Academic Work Series 2

Series 2/5

This is a continuation of putting up blog posts containing some of the academic work I am the most proud of during my time at University.

This essay was written at the University of Birmingham, in my third year course Live Art & Contemporary Performance. The discussion uses Body Art pieces primarily from Marina Abramović, Nicola Hunter and Eliza Bennett to look at the similarities and tensions between feminism and Body Art. Please note these performances are live art so there is discussion of blood, and body modification.

Now as website formatting really does not agree with academic formatting and referencing I shall be attaching the work as a link:

 
 

Marina Abramović, The Onion, film, 1995, Netherlands

Günter Berghaus, Avant-garde performance: live events and electronic technologies (Basingstoke, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Helen Thomas, The Body Dance and Cultural Theory (Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003).

 
 
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