I am A Work of Art

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This video is part of a larger eponymous installation, dated from 1979 to 2009, and presented for the first time at the Ludwig Múzeum in the exhibition Agents & Provocateurs in 2009. This multimedia installation is a recreation, according to the archives of the artist of several actions, performances and other supports, of a more global work in which Judit Kele lived as a work of art from 1979 to 1985, from Hungary to France.

"In 1985, Kele stopped working as a visual artist and took to filmmaking, which partly explains why her scarcely recorded works and performances, including I Am a Work of Art, remained largely unknown even to local art historians. When the piece was reconstructed in the framework of the exhibition Agents and Provocateurs in 2009, she agreed that the retrieved material (original letters, wedding photos, an artist book, blown-up black-and-white prints of the performances, as well as a documentary interview footage, and an art video) be arranged in a relatively arid presentation to best set off their documentary value and to least archive a project so votally merging art and life (...)" (Source: HOCK Beata, "Moving Across Europe: Three Cases Studies on Sex-Appeal" in K. Kosmala (ed.), Sexing the border: gender, art and new media in Central and Eastern Europe, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, 2014, p. 50.)

Presentation place

- Agents & Provocateurs, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, 16 octobre - 20 novembre 2009.

Publications and Periodicals which reference the work

- Katarzyna Kosmala (ed.), Sexing the border: gender, art and new media in Central and  Eastern Europe, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, 2014.

- Katalin Cseh-varga & Adam Czirak (eds.), Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere. Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe, Routledge, London, New York, 2018.

- Exhibition's website Agents & Provocateurs : http://www.agentsandprovocateurs.net/index.php?lang=en

- Artist's website : http://juditkele.com/Site/Bienvenue.html

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