DOCUMENTA 12

HAPPENINGText: Yoshito Maeoka

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Let’s start to take a look from Friedricianum Museum which is used for the exhibition hall every year. This is the first place you will get from via the public transportation tram. I think many people will visit here first as this place is a very common to meet up.

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Hito Steyerl, Lovely Andrea, 2007

The documentation of SM culture in Japan by Hito Steyerl was projected on the wall. It was a new idea about discovering the social meaning of one genre in pornography.

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Hu Xiaoyuan, A Keepsake I cannot give away, 2005

The installation by Hu Xiaoyuan was so sensitive and sometimes erotic. Sensitivity of the lines and the softness of the fabric were remarkably impressive.

I guess the specialty of this exhibition is, her un-modern art work is in context. This could be the performance is led by Trisha Brown.

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Atsuko Tanaka, Electric Dress, 1956

We also found “Electric Dress” by the Gutaiha artist, Atsuko Tanaka.

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