Chicana Ways - Aletta
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AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003)<br />
performances themselves and even their filmic or photographic<br />
documentation are all meant to shock and provoke the public,<br />
the performers' negotiation of pain differs considerably.<br />
Apart from being merely simulated, pain is in most cases and<br />
for various reasons marginalized, hidden and even negated,<br />
while in other instances it is deliberately made visible, i.e.<br />
bloody, or audible. The majority of performers only incurred<br />
minor injuries but some artists (Günter Brus, Rudolf<br />
Schwarzkogler, Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Gina Pane and<br />
others) exposed their bodies to real risks and extreme forms<br />
of pain2 - a form of work they ultimately had to stop for<br />
reasons of health.3<br />
5 This paper sets out to analyse the status of pain and<br />
its visual and verbal representations in body art with regard<br />
to gender difference. Apart from potentially gender-related<br />
intertextual/ intermedial references to cultural codes such as<br />
religion (Christian iconography, sacrifice, rituals of<br />
initiation), references to pathological spectacles such as<br />
hysteria and cultural practices such as cosmetic surgery, the<br />
analysis will include: subject-object relations during the<br />
performance itself, the scenarios of narcissism and voyeurism<br />
implied by it, gender-specific forms of pain-processing and<br />
programmatic statements or manifestoes formulated by the<br />
artists themselves.<br />
Sufferers and Perpetrators - Constellations<br />
6 Within body and performance art, subject-object<br />
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