{"id":7078,"date":"2012-12-04T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2012\/12\/04\/the-performance-that-never-was\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T03:25:00","slug":"the-performance-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/the-performance-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The performance that never was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7035\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_m66uetY3cg1r8upm8o1_1280.png\" alt=\"Marina Abramovic\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_m66uetY3cg1r8upm8o1_1280.png 670w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_m66uetY3cg1r8upm8o1_1280-595x379.png 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/>11 November 2005, Marina Abramovic repeated the action &#8220;Genital Panic&#8221; by Valie Export at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Marina has long hair that isn\u2019t frizzy like Valie\u2019s; she\u2019s wearing black trousers, not jeans like Valie; however, both have the part of the crutch cut away; Marina like Valie is not depilated; Marina wears boots, Valie didn\u2019t; she\u2019s also wearing a black leather jacket, when Valie wore a leather shirt; Marina brandishes a Kalashnikov, Valie didn\u00b4t; and Marina is in a museum, not a porn cinema. <\/p>\n<p>In 1979, Valie Export explained to Ruth Askey how the performance went: &#8220;Genital Panic was performed in a Munich theatre that showed pornographic films. I was wearing a sweater and trousers with the part between the legs totally cut out. I carried a weapon. Between films I told the public that they had come to this particular theatre to see sexual films. Now actual genitalia was available, and they could do anything they wanted to it. I moved down each row slowly, facing people. I didn\u00b4t move in an erotic way. I walked down each row, the gun pointed at the heads of the people. I was afraid and had no idea what the people would do. As I moved from row to row, each row of people silently got up, and left the theatre. Out of a film context, it was a totally different way for them to connect with a particular erotic symbol.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>There are no documents of Valie Export\u2019s action in the porn cinema of Munich. But there are a series of photographs of Valie Export in jeans with the crutch cut out, with a weapon that looks like a toy, frizzy hair, low-heeled shoes and a leather shirt. Peter Hassmann took the photographs, in 1969, in his studio and in the patio outside in Munich. <\/p>\n<p>When Roswitha Mueller interviewed Valie Export again for the book \u201cValie Export\/Fragments of the Imagination\u201d from 1994, the artist denied that she had ever entered a porn cinema in trousers with the crutch cut away and a weapon, that her presence in a theatre or porn cinema formed part of the apocryphal stories about &#8220;Genital Panic&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 November 2005, Marina Abramovic repeated the action &#8220;Genital Panic&#8221; by Valie Export at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. 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