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Izdužene ruke, izdužene noge, izdužen vrat, izdužena kičma

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Možda ako promjenim svoj oblik, osjećat ću se više kao žena.

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Teško mi je definirati što to mene čini ženom. Kako znam da sam žena? Kako da to definiram? Zašto to želim definirati?

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to sam ja.

ili barem mislim da jesam.

još uvijek se osjećam premlado.

premlado da bi stavljala u isti koš sa svojom majkom ili bakom.

one su žene, ja sam još uvijek djevojka.

možda zato što su starije.

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U drevnim babilonskim, hinduističkim i kineskim civilizacijama, menstruacija se smatrala znakom plodnosti i pozitivnim predznakom za dom.

Asteci i Maje vjerovali su da se žena koja ima menstruaciju smatra najvažnijom osobom, prema kojoj se društvo odnosi s poštovanjem.

U drugim civilizacijama, međutim, menstruacija je bila povezana s brojnim mitovima koji okružuju čarobnjaštvo i sposobnost obrane od oluja!

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Daniel Martin Diaz

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Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Read

John Berger: From ways of seeing

What I found interesting in the following essay: the definition of a woman and men's presence though social norms, what the nude body represents and how it was often seen as something to be ashamed of, sort of like a punishment or (often) a form of objectification (women's body only existing to be seen by fully dressed men).

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Berger starts its essay by defining the presence of men and women in a sense of social norm, as well as how a woman may appear to, not only the public, but to other women and herself.

"A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you. His presence may be fabricated, in the sense that he pretends to be capable of what he is not. But the pretence is always towards a power which he exercises on others. By contrast, a woman’s presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. Her presence is manifest in her gestures, voice, opinions, expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings, taste — indeed there is nothing she can do which does not contribute to her presence. Presence for a woman is so intrinsic to her person that men tend to think of it as an almost physical emanation, a kind of heat or smell or aura."

"She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others, and ultimately how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another. Men survey women before treating them. Consequently, how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated. "

"One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in hersell is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object — and most particularly an object of vision: a sight."

"One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in hersell is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object — and most particularly an object of vision: a sight."

Then, Berger, focuses on the objectification of women in visual arts, starting from oil paintings to film and television, and the inherent hypocrisy in images of women created for the patriarchal male gaze. Berger argues that women were often painted naked and each painting was created with two emotions in mind; shame and judgment.

"She is not naked as she is. She is naked as the spectator sees her."

"This nakedness is not, however, an expression of her own feelings; it is a sign of her submission to the owner’s feelings or demands"

"To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display."

Then, Berger focuses on the hypocrisy of using a mirror to add a new attribute to the female gender; vanity.

"The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure."

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Trisha Brown, Walking on the Wall at the Barbican

Floor of the Forest

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Vali Export, Adjunct Dislocations

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ŠTO ME VODI KROZ POZORNICU?

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ŠTO JE MOJA POZORNICA?

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Dijelovi filma

PRVI DIO - plijevljenje, sađenje, kopanje

DRUGI DIO - ples (vrtnja na mjestu, drmeš,)

TREĆI DIO - ples sa plijevljenjem, sađenjem i kopanjem