Mapplethorpe at eighty: Who may show bodies?
Mapplethorpe sought beauty in the body, challenging public boundaries in the process. Today, the question is also who controls these images.
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Since 2006, the Austrian choreographer has been developing works in which bodies are not categorised according to the norms of dance. A Vienna retrospective shows how her questions have shifted over two decades – and what a living dance archive can preserve.
READ THE PROFILEMapplethorpe sought beauty in the body, challenging public boundaries in the process. Today, the question is also who controls these images.
→From Degas to performance: Mannheim’s new exhibition asks how dance becomes visible in the visual arts – and who takes centre stage.
→Who is looking, and who is being looked at? Three forthcoming programmes in Berlin, Basel and Vienna connect questions about the body with video, sound and research.
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