Valie EXPORT

“Hyperbulie”, 1973
VHS
B&W, sound
6.31
Courtesy of the artist and EAI, New York, NY
Hyperbulie, 1973
Hyperbulie is a performance work that pushes the body to its physical extremes. The performance elements are first established: a framework of wires are connected to electric batteries. VALIE EXPORT appears and makes contact with live electricity as she negotiates the wire construction.
Biography
Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT has been an influential and provocative figure on the international art scene for over three decades. Her practice includes film, video, photography, text and performance. Initially expanding the Actionist project to confront a complex feminist critique of the social and political body, her works achieve a compelling fusion of the visceral and the conceptual.
VALIE EXPORT was born in Austria in 1940. She received a degree in textile design from the Technical School for Textile Industry in Vienna in 1964. EXPORT has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig, Vienna; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; the Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Generali Foundation, Vienna; and the Hamburg Arts Center, Hamburg. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki; Dokumenta 6, Kassel, Germany; and the Galerie Im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Germany, among others. She has also participated in several international film festivals, including the London, Berlin, Cannes and Hong Kong film festivals. She has taught at the Academy of Visual Arts, Munich, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently she is a professor at the Kunsthochschule für Median in Cologne, Germany.
VALIE EXPORT lives in Vienna, Austria and Cologne, Germany.
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