A pioneer of performance and video art in the 1960s, VALIE EXPORT has been a defining presence in the rise of feminist art practices. Her work questions and explores the social and sexual conventions that govern the representation of the female body and, through this, the objectification of women. EXPORT used guerrilla tactics in her direct confrontation with the everyday, interacting with members of the public on the street and in a variety of public spaces. In Tapp und Tastkino (Touch Cinema) (1968), EXPORT walked the streets of Vienna and Munich with a cardboard stage attached to her torso, while a collaborator invited members of the public to insert their hands through a curtain and touch EXPORT’s naked breasts inside.

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