"In a series of witty, minimalist exercises that are introduced by inter-titles (Touching, Boxing, Feeling, Hearing, Tasting, and Walking), VALIE EXPORT explores the relationship between word and action." (Source, cité depuis le site web eai)
1: Touching - mit Händen auf Glas
2: Boxing
3: Feeling - Gesicht auf Glas
4: Hearing - Ohr auf Glas
5: Tasting - Zunge auf Glas
6: Pushing - mit Kopf auf Glasplatte schlagend
7: Walking - Füße auf Glas gehend
"Body Tape is about a series of banal daily actions performed as conceptual gestures with filmic intertitels (Touching, Boxing, Feeling, Hearing, Tasting, Pushing) reminiscent of educational films. Here too, it is the reediting of language and action, both of the body and the medium, which is carried out, simultaneously separating and unifying “cuts” or edits between the performance’s spatial structure and its perception by an audience. The artist gives directions from behind a screen or analogous sheet of glass used as a projection surface. The performative happening is thereby rigged by the unavoidable media images appearing on the monitor or projection surface, composed of a montage of text and action." (Source, Sabeth Buchmann, "Voice on-and-off : zu Praxis und Diskurs der Performance in Valie Exports Werk = Voice on-and-off : on the practice and discourse of performance in Valie Export's work", Valie Export : Zeit und Gegenzeit = Time and countertime, Walther König ; Distribution outside Europe, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., Köln, New York, 2010.)
- Valie Export : Zeit und Gegenzeit = Time and countertime, Walther König ; Distribution outside Europe, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., Köln, New York, 2010.