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Contemporary performance art by Helena Walsh: embodiment as empowerment in an Irish context
Valerie Morissonsubject
feminismContraception Magdalene Laundriesguerre du VietnamPerformancemanifestationsNorthern IrelandProstitutionMagdalene laudriesPerformance artAvortementAllégorie1968impérialismeComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSIrlande du NordNationalismVietnam WarstudentsdemonstrationsétudiantsAbortion[ SHS.ART ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history[SHS.ART]Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art historysocial movementmouvement socialNationalismeimperialismAllegory[SHS.ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history[SHS] Humanities and Social Sciencesbody artIrelanddescription
Ever since the 1970s, performance artists have used their bodies as a means to question the patriarchal control of women. In Ireland, where the body is at the center of debates over contraception, abortion and divorce, feminist performance art has proved particularly pertinent to substitute the real experiential body to the allegorical or fetishized female body. Through her performances, Helena Walsh incites the viewers to respond to the effect of ideology on the physical body. Embodiment, impersonation and incorporation make the body explicit and reopen historical wounds.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-01 |