Six women tackle the neoliberalist cult of the body with all their performative brilliance and vicious physical virtuosity. Apollon limbos between the aesthetics of an occult fitness-studio, a cyborg-bullfight and neoclassical ballet.
Florentina Holzinger combines fin de siècle freakshow and 1960s live art, offering a new perspective on the rupture between high art and entertainment culture. Through this humorous and furious destruction of a classical narrative Holzinger addresses the myth of this supposedly perfect woman, the artist herself. These perfect women – what do they even want?
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Recommended readings to accompany the Indefinite Article by Ara H. Merjian.
- Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge, 2011.
- V. Briginshaw, Dance, Space, and Subjectivity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Elizabeth Grosz, Space, Time and Perversion. Routledge, 1995.
- Deborah Hay, Using the Sky: A Dance. Routledge, 2015.
- Deirdre Kell, Ballerina: Sex, Scandal, and Suffering Behind the Symbol of Perfection. Greystone, 2012.
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Interview with Florentina Holzinger
“The dancer’s body being exhibited is always a sexual object, too. I find it very important to be aware and not too naïve of that.”
Apollon Musagète, the feminist ballet of Florentina Holzinger
“I find ballet really perverse and artificial, both attractive and repulsive… Apollon Musagète is in a way an attempt to transform my aversion to ballet into a loving relationship.”
