Wanda & Nova deViator Photo: Nada Žgank

Wanda & Nova deViator (Slovenia): Frozen Images

How to speak, write other than through one’s body? Objective detachment, disinterest for the object of art, work, action is considered a requisite for meaning making, for understanding experience. Yet in fact, we remain in experience while we are becoming. Encountering images, we absorb them through the entire body, not only through the eyes. Incapable of objectivity, we experience images.

“1, 2, 3 go!” Jane Fonda, Jenna Jameson, Carmen Electra, or Lady Gaga count. We are supposed to look hypersexualised, behave like hot pussies or tight, bloated stallions who enact their voluptuousness here and now, anywhere. It brings social points. Absurdly, the real, deep, true, liberated sexuality seems then to be even more remote. “4,3,2,1!” The disillusioned emancipation of a woman reduced to only one possible comparison, a struggle: be like a man? The idea of her emancipation, liberation, is embraced and corrupted into an imperative that forces her to be always and everywhere sexy – according to phallocentric criteria. Yet another example of the endless and all–pervading commodification. The abuse of power comes as no surprise.

WNDV/DIY is a production of self, production of one’s own images, own tools, own dances, music and noise, words and screams. It is not a lonesome romantic genius, but – besides own contents – also an active, politically incorrect remixing of the culture and media with which it is intertwined. Piracy is thus a rejected, redefined, or upgraded style. Makeself. Autoporn. Samizdat. Kopimi.

WNDV is about pleasure, about positioning in the world, about existence, about the body, about emotions, about living in a consumerist, pornographic world, about images, about exploitation of pleasure, about personal emancipation from fears, about existential problems of how to be alive, how to live and stay alive – lust for life.

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Wanda & Nova deViator (Slovenia): Frozen Images
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