From men on dog leads to public breast-fondling, Valie Export’s art demanded a total feminist revolution

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According to The Guardian’s report, From men on dog leads to public breast-fondling, Valie Export’s art demanded a total feminist revolution, The performance artist was a brilliantly subversive pioneer whose work exposed the predicament of women living in a world that was not made for us • Renowned feminist artist and film-maker Valie Export dies aged 85 Punk, intellectual, feminist, theorist, brave as hell, vulnerable, funny, Valie Export was a hero to many women. Since the 1960s, she was driven by a fierce conviction that art and media would play an essential role in women’s liberation: that women must picture their own reality in the name of social progress. In Women’s Art: A Manifesto (1972), she wrote that women must “use art as a means of expression, so as to influence the consciousness of all of us”. What she demanded was revolution. I keep returning to her work. Can’t stay away. I have written about her in relation to violence in women’s art. Her work was heavy with explicit threat and pain, and she made evident the vi

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