Porn Exhibit Rocks Vienna, Delivers No Pizza
source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fg-vienna-porn25-2009mar25,0,7189584.story
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"In the city where Sigmund Freud explored the dark recesses of consciousness that no one ever talked about, the exhibit aims to shatter the taboo about smut, which is somehow everywhere and nowhere.
Pornography is huge. It remains one of Southern California's biggest industries and generates $100 billion a year in revenue worldwide. And though derided, ignored and confined to the darkness of the living room or hidden behind the blackened windows of the adult movie store, porn has been so influential in pop culture that it has taken on the character of cultural artifact, if not art.
"Pornography is one of the biggest economic sectors, but it's never discussed publicly," says Angela Stief, a curator and art historian at the Kunsthalle, a building in Vienna's celebrated Museumsquartier where the exhibit will be up until June 1. "It's something which is hidden. We transfer it into the public or into the exhibition hall and therefore you can maybe ask the question why you haven't been talking about it."
The statue of a kneeling naked woman from the milk bar in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 science fiction classic, "A Clockwork Orange," serves as the exhibit's emblem, illustrating "Porn Identity" exhibition books, guides and posters.
At the exhibit's center is a forest of TV monitors showing X-rated films as well as suggestively edited clips highlighting awkward moments from innocent 1930s movies in an attempt to "explore the limits between art pornography and film," as Stief put it."
Pornography is huge. It remains one of Southern California's biggest industries and generates $100 billion a year in revenue worldwide. And though derided, ignored and confined to the darkness of the living room or hidden behind the blackened windows of the adult movie store, porn has been so influential in pop culture that it has taken on the character of cultural artifact, if not art.
"Pornography is one of the biggest economic sectors, but it's never discussed publicly," says Angela Stief, a curator and art historian at the Kunsthalle, a building in Vienna's celebrated Museumsquartier where the exhibit will be up until June 1. "It's something which is hidden. We transfer it into the public or into the exhibition hall and therefore you can maybe ask the question why you haven't been talking about it."
The statue of a kneeling naked woman from the milk bar in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 science fiction classic, "A Clockwork Orange," serves as the exhibit's emblem, illustrating "Porn Identity" exhibition books, guides and posters.
At the exhibit's center is a forest of TV monitors showing X-rated films as well as suggestively edited clips highlighting awkward moments from innocent 1930s movies in an attempt to "explore the limits between art pornography and film," as Stief put it."
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