Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...

Tjelesne tekućine pokretački su sok života, međutim smatraju se nečim
zazornim. Ovaj rad razmotrit će podrijetlo te zazornosti, te nakon toga pojavljivanje
tjelesnih tekućina kao sastavnica umjetničkih djela suvremenih
umjetnika u kontekstu body arta, htijenja svakog pojedinog umjetnika te
u kontekstu simulacije svetoga, okultnoga ili, s druge strane, onog što nas
definira u osobnom i ljudskom smislu. Rad će razmotriti djelovanje Hermanna
Nitscha i bečkih akcionista koji su u svojim performansima koristili
tjelesne izlučevine kako bi oživjeli dionizijske misterije, preko britanskog
dvojca Gilbert & George koji radi litografije od mikroskopski uvećanih
sekreta, sve do suvremenog umjetnika Marca Quinna koji je napravio svoj
autoportret od zamrznute krvi, čineći od krvi ekvivalent vlastite osobe. Uz
njih će se analizirati rad još nekoliko umjetnika koji u svojem radu koriste
tjelesne tekućine ili izlučevine, poput Zlatka Kopljara, Wima Delvoyea,
Andresa Serrana.
BODY FLUIDS IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Body fluids include: products of glands with external secretion – exocrine
glands, so called excretions (drool, sweat); products of endocrine
glands or secretions (gallbladder, sperm); and blood, a liquid used to transport
nutritive matter through the body.
Although body fluids are the juices that power life, they are considered
something repugnant. This paper will review the origin of this repugnancy,
and after that the emergence of body fluids in their role as works of art
by contemporary artists in the context of body art, the intention of each
particular artist in the context of simulation of the sacred, the occult or, on
the other hand, of that which defines us in a personal and human way. The
paper will review the activities of Hermann Nitsch and the Viennese Actionists
who used body fluids in their performances to reenact Dionysian
mysteries, the British duo Gilbert & George who print lithographies of microscopically
enlarged secretions, and the contemporary artist Marc Quinn
who made his own self-portrait using frozen blood, creating an equivalent
of his own person out of blood. Alongside them the paper will analyse the
work of several other artists who used body fluids or excretions like Zlatko
Kopljar, Wim Delvoye and Andres Serrano.
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