Artistic Labour of the Body

Rose-Anne Gush is an art historian and theorist whose work explores the political aesthetics of the body and notions of artistic labor, gender and feminism(s), and theories of “global art”. Her research engages with the spatial politics of capitalism, geographies of extraction, and questions of form. She is currently Assistant Professor at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Translation and Style Introduction: Artistic Labour of the Body 1 The Body-Politic 2 Vienna – A Primal Scene 3 Failures of Resistance 4 A Beneficiary Society, or, Continuities 5 The Contradictions between Action and Reality 6 Ambiguity of the Body 7 Dialectics of the Body 1 Exhibitionist 1 A Subhistory of Film 2 Touched by the Crowds 3 Aktionshose: Genitalpanik: Planned 4 Fetishes, Taboos and Entertainers 2 Escape into Illness 1 Material Thinking, Feminist Actionism 2 Pathologies: Kausalgie, Hyperbulie, Asemie 3 Escape into Illness 4 Action – Praxis 3 The Language of Wounds 1 Body Writing 2 Body Language 3 Wounds of Modernity 4 An Archive of Body Postures 5 Silence over the Body 4 Petrified Memory 1 Media Regimes 2 Subject, City and Image 3 Monologue 5 Against Innocence, or, on Fascism’s Use of Women 1 Obscenity Repetitions 2 The Family as Factory of Image and Ideology 3 A Transactional Unit 4 Gender and Fascism 5 The Dialectics of Language 6 Against Innocence 6 Working Through a Mountain of History 1 Four Scenes 2 Fear of Technology 3 What Hides in Language? 4 Heimat 5 Home World Coda Bibliography Index