[NetBehaviour] Launch: "Body Anxiety", an exhibition exploring gendered embodiment and self-representation on the internet

[Jennifer Chan]

Left: May Waver, Content Aware 1, 2014, gif.

Right: RaFia Santana, Very Little Sleep, 2015, Digitally Manipulated
Photograph



“Body Anxiety”


Curated by Leah Schrager and Jennifer Chan

BodyAnxiety.com <http://www.bodyanxiety.com/>

Online exhibition opening January 24, 2015


Alexandra Marzella, Andrea Crespo, Angela Washko, Ann Hirsch, Aurorae
Parker, Endam Nihan, Erika Alexander, Faith Holland, Georges Jacotey,
Hannah Black, Kate Durbin, Marie Karlberg, Mary Bond, May Waver, Nancy
Leticia, Rachel Rabbit White, Leah Schrager, Rafia Santana, Randon
Rosenbohm, Saoirse Wall, Victoria Campbell.


“Body Anxiety” shares the varied perspectives of artists who examine
gendered embodiment, performance and self-representation on the internet.
Throughout art and film history, the female body and nude has been an
ongoing subject in male-authored work. More often than not, the woman’s
body is capitalized on in these works while their voice is muted. From the
Seventies onwards, female artists employed video and performance to reclaim
their bodies from this art historical trajectory. Today, artists use the
internet as a platform to create and share their own imagery. While
appropriation might be a common practice in contemporary art, using the
internet as gender-queer performative space allows artists to question
contemporary attitudes towards femininity. In “Body Anxiety” Schrager and
Chan have selected a collection of female-empowering artworks to present in
one single location in hopes of reshaping pre-existing narrative of
gendered appropriation.


Selected works


Endam Nihan, Hold It, video, 2014



Randon Rosenbohm, Scanned Diary Entry About Exploitation 12/31/14, 2014,
writing


Angela Washko, Shred For That Millionaire: Toronto's 13 minute trial
version

of '100 Qualities Needed to Land Your Dream Millionaire', 2014, video
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