Marina Abramovic is pictured, but I’d like to think this is part of (perhaps an homage to) Valie Export’s “Action Pants: Genital Panic,” a performance in which the artist “entered a cinema wearing trousers with a triangle of fabric removed at the crotch and walked between the rows of seated viewers with a machine gun in her hands. Her action was intended to confront the cliché of women’s cinematic representation as passive objects. The posters were then fly-posted in the streets. ‘I wanted to be provocative, to provoke, but also aggression was part of my intention…I sought to change the people’s way of seeing and thinking.’ (Text from hybridutterance.wordpress.com.)
(Source: vivliateca)
