cool quadrille: lingus stuff

Jeff Koons Hanging Heart: Banked 26 million for this















"Valie Export's most controversial action was one of her first, Action Pants: Genital Panic (1968), during which she marched into an art-film house in Munich (not, she says now, a porno theater, as was once alleged), wearing pants with the crotch cut out.[2] Walking up and down the aisles among the mostly male patrons, she challenged them to "look at the real thing" instead of passively enjoying naked women on the screen. She extended the action to posters picturing her seated, wearing the same pants, but also sporting a machine gun. With her hair wildly teased she stares directly at the camera."



"The costume that I designed as a second body is named “Compli-mum” which means “Complete woman”. It looks like armor for women or special clothing for self-protection, but it is also trendy and sexy looking. The costume changes its own shape by separating or gathering parts of its construction through the use of microcontroller and a motorized skeleton structure. The motorized mechanism transforms the bottom area of the costume and reveals the monitors installed underneath the costume. The parts transform and enlarge the shapes to represent a sexually exaggerated and distorted female body."


Paul Sermon
«Telematic Dreaming» (1992) turns a bed into the support of high-resolution images that might show a partner, intimately alive although being thousand kilometers away.