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MIRROR BOX, Duesseldorf\/Amsterdam\/London (2017)<\/h4>\n

Performance by Milo Moir\u00e9<\/h4>\n

Duration: 4:42 min<\/p>\n

What happens when a woman puts her sexuality on public display, assertively takes the initiative and lays out clear rules for the intimate interaction?\u00a0Performance artist Milo Moir\u00e9 wears a trapezoidal skirt made up of mirrored surfaces; a rectangular opening at the front is closed off by a red curtain. With a megaphone she invites passers-by to reach into the opening for 30 seconds, in order to touch her vagina.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI am standing here today for women\u2019s rights and sexual self-determination. Women have a sexuality, just like men have one. However, women decide for themselves when and how they want to be touched and when they don\u2019t\u201d,<\/b>\u00a0declared the artist.<\/div>\n
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The consensual nature of sexual acts becomes a symbol here. Moir\u00e9 has additionally taken the liberty of showing female desire, thus giving women a sexual voice. The artist supplements the dominant image of the female body as a mirror of male desire through the illumination\u00a0of the libidinous black box of woman.<\/div>\n
Inevitably it is not only one\u2019s own self that becomes recognisable through the Mirror Box. The audience\u2019s reflection on the mirrored box simultaneously becomes a visual metaphor for the role reversal from voyeur to the object of view: a constant play of inversions analogous to our roles in the digital world.<\/div>\n
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Milo Moir\u00e9\u2019s performance \u201cMirror Box\u201d can be seen as a further development of the tap and touch cinema (1968) by VALIE EXPORT. However, the artist Milo Moir\u00e9 distances herself from the old subject and aims at the modern self-determination and progressive sexuality of women. Artivist Milo Moir\u00e9 utilises her body as an instrument, even as a weapon, in order to depict and disrupt power structures. She aggressively seeks the feminine expression of sexual self-determination and ventures along the boundaries of art and predictable morality.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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