Eclipse: Venus Test

Eclipse: Venus Test

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Title Venus Test
Type Performance, Body-art / Live-art, Perseverance performance
Date 3 March 1999
Venue Cankarjev Dom
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Kapelica Gallery
Language Slovene
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 02' 02"
URL http://www.kapelica.org/index_si.html#event=311
Registration number KAP-1999-PERF-183

Synopsis

The performance researched the social status of Slovenian women art scene with the help of stimulation and arousal of a naked male participant. The male as a measure of interest has not responded to the listed names of local women artists. The performance clearly and humorously showed how and how much the women artists and their creations are in fact culturally unarousable and uninteresting in a phallocentric society. For the Eclipse tandem, the radical entering onto the scene is typical. They call their form of body art “the rhetoric soft-porn-kitsch” and with their hedonistic approach, they de-taboo female sexuality.

 

The performance was presented as a part of 'The Beauty of the Extreme II' festival at Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana.

Sodelujejo

Editing (film, video) Jurij Krpan

Artist, artistic group

Eclipse

Production

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Eclipse , Blood is Sweeter Than Honey, Ljubljana, 2002, 41' 22"
Eclipse , Pornorama 2001, 16 January 2001, 05' 36"
Eclipse , Breakfast in the Grass, Ljubljana, 6 January 1999, 06' 25"