Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Barbara Degenevieve

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Barbara Degenevieve

Barbara DeGenevieve (1947–2014) was an American interdisciplinary artist who worked in photography, video, and performance. She lectured widely on her work and on subjects including human sexuality, gender, transsexuality, censorship, ethics, and pornography. Her writing on these subjects have been published in art, photographic, and scholarly journals, and her work has been exhibited internationally.

1947 - August 9, 2014
I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will. — © Barbara Degenevieve
I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.
I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.
In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.
As an academic I feel I should intellectualize and theoretically analyze when all I really want to do is let the work take me somewhere, manipulate me, and then rough me up a bit. When it comes right down to it, I only want to spend time with work that makes me think and teaches me something while making my body react.
You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.
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