Milo Moiré
Milo Moiré (born 1983)[1] is a Swiss artist and model known for her nude performances and the use of her body in her art. Moiré was born in Switzerland, of Slovak and Spanish origin, but works from Düsseldorf, Germany. She has an Art Academy background and a degree in psychology.[2]
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PlopEgg
Moiré's PlopEgg No. 1, performed at Art Cologne 2014, was a work of action painting that involved the expelling of paint filled eggs from her vagina on to a canvas, thus creating an abstract work of art.[3] The eggs contained ink and acrylic paint.[4] A video description of the work states "At the end of this almost meditative art birth performance the stained canvas is folded up, smoothed and unfolded to a symmetrically reflected picture, astonishingly coloured and full of [strength]."[5] The folding of the resulting canvas created a work which has been compared to a Rorschach test[6] and a womb.[4] Moiré writes: "To create art, I use the original source of femininity – my vagina."[4]
The Script System No. 2
In June 2014, for The Script System No. 2, Moiré travelled to Art Basel naked with the names of items of clothing marked on her body in paint; she was refused entry, forcing her to dress to enter the exhibition. Of The Script System, she has said "[it] is inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology. Each of us knows these scripts (e.g. restaurant script), recurrent, stereotyped action sequences, after which we work every day. Especially early in the morning on the way to work, we work almost automatically, often without awareness of our environment. These everyday blindness I wanted to break through my performance."[7] Moiré claims that lacking an outer shell of clothes, the human body regains its ability to communicate without the distractions of money, fashion, ideology or even time. The experience of the art viewer is also transformed with the reaction or non-reaction of the public an integral part of the performance. Her first nude performance was in 2007 and she has performed nude ever since in order to provide an authentic and unmediated experience.[8]
In 2016 she performed naked to protest the 2015 New Year Eve sexual attacks by immigrants[9] in Germany.
Art or pornography?
Moiré has deliberately placed herself on the interface between art and pornography with videos on her website described as "uncensored" that are available to view for a fee, and the naked performance of her works inviting the act of censorship by media outlets.[10] Moiré has said that there should be no limit to art and that death is the only limit she accepts. She has cited Marina Abramović and Joseph Beuys as particular influences.[8]
Criticism
Writing about PlopEgg in The Guardian in a piece entitled, "The artist who lays eggs with her vagina – or why performance art is so silly", Jonathan Jones commented, "And yet it's not a strong statement at all. It is absurd, gratuitous, trite and desperate. Anywhere but an art gathering, this would be regarded as a satire on modern cultural emptiness."[3] Jess Denham in The Independent commented, "Not long ago there was Lady Gaga's 'vomit artist', but now Milo Moiré is making her look tame", adding, "the latest desperate effort to shock in the name of art."[4]
Arrest
In 2015, Moiré was arrested by French police, and spent the night in the cells, after posing for naked "selfies" with tourists in front of the Eiffel Tower.[11]
Personal life
Moiré lives in Düsseldorf with her partner, the photographer P. H. Hergarten who goes by the name Peter Palm.[1]
Selected works
- The Script System No. 1, performance video, 2013.
- The Split Brain, video, 2013.
- The Script System No. 2, performance video, Art Basel, 2014.
- PlopEgg No. 1 – A Birth of a Picture, performance work, 2014.
See also
References
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- ↑ A naked mind dionisopunk.com, 7 May 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The artist who lays eggs with her vagina – or why performance art is so silly Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 22 April 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Swiss performance artist Milo Moiré 'gives birth to painting' using her vagina by Jess Denham, The Independent, 22 April 2014. Archived at Internet Archive. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
- ↑ 20 Of The Most Confusing Performance Art Pieces Of All Time (NSFW) by Katherine Brooks, The Huffington Post, 26 June 2014.
- ↑ Jean Louis Legalery et Milo Moiré Mediapart, 24 April 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ↑ Performance : "The Script System" Art Basel, Basel 2014. Milo Moiré, 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Milo Moiré : «Depuis le début, je suis nue» by Valérie Duponchelle, Le Figaro, 25 June 2014.
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- ↑ Kunst oder Pornografie?: Die nackte Provokation Thomas Schweres, Spiegal Online Video, 14 April 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ↑ Nude Performance Artist Milo Moiré Arrested in Paris. Henri Neuendorf, artnet.news, 6 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
