We proudly present the major figures in feminist at this summer’s video programme, Performing Women. The women artists’ use of their own bodies sparked off during the late 1960s and quickly had a great influence on discussions around representation of the female body. It is therefore no coincidence that the programme focuses on Danish and international pioneering works in the field of feminist body art.  

Carolee Schneemann
Fuses (1964–1966)
The sexual act is shown and seen from a feminine and artistic point of view that contrasts with the porno industry’s stereotyped representation of women.

Lene Adler Petersen
The Girl in the Green Dress (The Female Christ) (1970)
With symbolic references to Christ's arrival in Jerusalem Lene Adler Petersen dresses up with a green dress and flowers. At the end of the movie she will be crucified.

Ursula Reuter Christiansen
The Executioner (1971)
A musical legend of women’s degrading and elevation. In a romantic staging she hits rock bottom, while at the same time emancipating herself from the inhibitions and expectations that have previously limited her.

Joan Jonas
Organic Honey’s Visual Telepathy (1972)
We meet the artist in the form of her alter ego, Organic Honey. With disguises, masks and theatrical poses Joan Jonas exaggerates cultural clichés about femininity.

Marina Abramovic
SSS (1989)
Wearing a Medusa crown the artist moves down a concrete staircase as she chants biographical fragments of her life.

Yvonne Rainer
Privilege (1990)
In an interplay between documentary and fiction the work turns its focus on menopause and the historical discrimination of women after childbearing age.