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Matrimonio ‘art & porn’

Magazine

04 February 2009

Matrimonio ‘art & porn’

Hace unas pocas semanas se ha publicado el último número de la revista Zehar editada por Arteleku (disponible on-line), que recoge algunas aproximaciones a “el cuerpo desde sus fronteras” de la mano de Titus Matiyane, Elke Zobl, Itziar Ziga, Gabriel Villota Toyos, Beatriz Preciado, y Marina Grzinic, entre otros.

En su texto, Beatriz Preciado se aproxima a la pornografía como discurso cultural y sitúa sus orígenes cerca de la institución ‘museo’. Ya desde el primer párrafo denuncia la atracción del mercado del arte hacia el porno –con Mapplethorpe, Koons, o Daniel Edwards al frente– y su simultáneo rechazo cuando este viene del feminismo (que se lo cuenten si no a Annie Sprinkle)

La inauguración en la galería Helga de Alvear de Madrid de la más reciente “porno producción” de Santiago Sierra la misma semana de la publicación del texto no hace más que reforzar la tésis. Vamos, que nos queda matrimonio art& porn para rato…

Aimar Arriola works in art as a curator, editor and researcher. For some time now he has been thinking ‘about’ surfaces, in a double sense: paying attention to the presence of concrete surfaces, such as documents, bodies, or art objects; and reflecting on the differential status that the realm of surfaces has in relation to the deep. He holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London and is currently a research associate at AZ Alhóndiga Bilbao. In August 2021 he was happy and bought a black cap.

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