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# 92
Maso and Miso in the Land of Men’s Rights
Élisabeth Lebovici and Giovanna Zapperi
Feminist Affects
Let’s face it: we were in shock after reading the infamous, collectively authored column—aka “Deneuve’s text”—published in the French newspaper Le Monde last January, defending the (male) right to “disturb” as a way to dismiss women’s struggles against sexual abuse. 1 As a response to the Weinstein affair and the emergence of the #MeToo movement, a group of one hundred women, mostly high-profile professionals from the fields of art and culture, argued in favor of…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 19, 2018
Category
Gender, Feminism, Sexuality & Eroticism, Nationalism
Subjects
Europe, Censorship
# 13
The Death of the Audience: A Conversation with Pierre Bal-Blanc
Élisabeth Lebovici
Elisabeth Lebovici: I would like to begin with the title of the exhibition you curated at the Secession in Vienna in summer 2009, as it was what first enticed me to conduct this conversation with you: “The Death of the Audience.” I sense that such a title is in line with much recent research by artists and theoreticians, for instance Hito Steyerl’s essay in the June 2009 issue of e-flux journal , “Is a Museum a Factory?” 1 At the end of her essay, she mentions the viewer’s loss of…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2010
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Exhibition Histories, Curating