TAPP und TASTKINO

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

VALIE EXPORT

TAPP und TASTKINO, 1969

Video documentation of the action in Munich, 1969 Video, black and white, sound, 1 min 20 sec Performer: VALIE EXPORT At the megaphone: Peter Weibel Editors: Wolfgang Hajek and Helmut Dimko Produced by ORF/ZDF for "Apropos Film"

GF0002080.03.0-1999

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 2016 Vienna, AT, Wien Museum 2014 Thessaloniki,GR, State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) 2013 Krakow, POL. Museum of Contemporary Art (Sztuki) 2013 Berlin, DE, Historisches Museum 2013 Tallinn, EE, Kumu art Museum 2012 Vienna, AT, Kunsthalle Project space 2012 Berlin, DE, Historisches Museum 2011 Bregenz, AT, Kunsthaus (KUB) 2009 Bielefeld, DE, Kunsthalle Bielefel 2009 Arnhem, NL, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA) 2008 San Francisco, CA, USA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 2008 Warschau, POL, Zacheta National Gallery of Art 2007 New York, NY, USA, Austrian Cultural Forum New York 2007 Amsterdam, NL, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2006 Lausanne, CH, LUFF Underground Film Festifval 2004 Des Moines, IA, USA, Des Moines Art Center 2004 Geneva, CH, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain 2004 Columbus, OH, USA, The Wexner Center for the Arts 2004 Sevilla, ES, Centro Andaluz de Arte Cont. (CAAC) 2003 Baltimore, MD, USA, The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) 2003 Paris, F, Centre de la Photography 2002 Karlsruhe, DE, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) 2000 Philadelphia, PA, USA, Golday Palley Gallery