Helena Velena: STEP ASIDE, LADY GAGA!! THE FUTURE OF OUR BODIES AND THE JAPANESE PARADIGM
October 9, 2015 7:00 pm
Photo: Gerard Bruneau
After the “free love” era of the 70s, we’ve gotten more and more accustomed to the concept of the virtualization of our bodies, with the result of detaching ourselves from the most important sensory experiences. Nowadays we don’t have lovers, but friends on Facebook – Whatsapp, and we don’t make love or have sex, we chat. Also the academic circles have inadvertently managed to transform the topical concept of “cyborg”, stripping away the “naturality” of technological real life body modification, in a “science fiction only” futuribile abstract iconisation.
At the same time (and in Western culture), as far as social and cultural identities are concerned, we’ve been sieged by the “Society of the Spectacle”, part of which is the exposure to role models such as pop stars, billionaires with an out of reach lifestyle, that are becoming not only trendsetters, but also our “maitres a penser”. What we really need instead is to go back to explore and sense our own bodies and recreate our own identities according to our needs as free and diverse individuals.
Step aside, Lady Gaga. Everyone can be one’s own star!!
Organization: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, City of Women
In the frame of the 21st International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women.
More information: www.cityofwomen.org.
