TAPP und TASTKINO

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg © Bildrecht

VALIE EXPORT

TAPP und TASTKINO, 1968

"Expanded Cinema", "Körperaktion", "Straßenaktion"

Second TAP and TOUCH Cinema Aluminum object with foam padding, 59.9 x 35.1 x 52.5 cm Reconstruction: Wolfgang Ernst, 1998 Table-base 100 x 65 x 85 cm, perspex cover 75 x 65 x 85 cm

GF0002080.02.0-1999

Artwork text

Body Action, Social Action, Sexual Action, Real Film 1. Street Film 1. Mobile Film 1. True Women’s Film 1. Tap and Touch Film Material: Mini-Movie Theater, Body Screen (naked female chest), people playing along with people (VALIE EXPORT) The TAP and TOUCH CINEMA is one of VALIE EXPORT’s seminal works, a spectacular feminist action in which she protested against the film apparatus as a materialized, bourgeois ideology. With a simple box, held in front of her naked chest, she went out into the street in several cities and invited people to “visit” the “cinema” for a fifth of a minute. A woman’s body became the screen, the film, which could not be seen but was instead expanded to include another aspect of perception, the sense of “touch.” The first “cinema” of Styrofoam, which the artist made herself, had a little cloth curtain in front of the opening. It was destroyed after the first two actions in Vienna and Munich. The second “cinema” was aluminum with a foam-trimmed opening, made by the designer Wolfgang Ernst. After the exhibition Film as Film (1977- 78, Cologne, Berlin, Essen, Stuttgart, London), it was no longer returned and is considered lost. For the exhibition Out of Actions (Los Angeles, Vienna, Barcelona, Tokyo), EXPORT had Ernst reconstruct the second model. The Generali Foundation acquired this second model and also asked EXPORT to reconstruct her first “cinema.” Like the destroyed original TAP and TOUCH CINEMA from 1968, the 1999 model was made by the artist herself in the same shape, material, and size. The two objects, in conjunction with photographs, original texts, reports, and a video, testify to her historic action. (Sabine Breitwieser)

Lending history
2021 Hertogenbosch, NL, Design Museum Den Bosch 2013 Milan, IT, Palazzo Reale 2013 Tallinn, EE, Kumu art Museum 2012 Berlin, DE, Historisches Museum 2011 Bregenz, AT, Kunsthaus (KUB) 2009 Arnhem, NL, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA) 2008 San Francisco, CA, USA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 2007 New York, NY, USA, Austrian Cultural Forum New York 2005 Zagreb, CRO, Galerija Klovicevi Dvori 2005 Munich, DE, Haus der Kunst 2005 Rotterdam, NL, TENT. Platform voor hedendaagse kunst 2004 Des Moines, IA, USA, Des Moines Art Center 2004 Columbus, OH, USA, The Wexner Center for the Arts 2003 Baltimore, MD, USA, The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) 2002 Berlin, DE, Freie Akademie der Künste 2001 Los Angeles, CA, USA, Museum of Art St. Monica 2001 Brno, CZE, Haus der Kunst 2000 Philadelphia, PA, USA, Golday Palley Gallery 2000 London, GB, Whitechapel Gallery 2000 Innsbruck, AT, Galerie im Taxispalais