Boryana Rossa with Ultrafuturo,
The Last Valve
, 2004
Boryana Rossa
with Ultrafuturo
The Last Valve
Boryana Rossa (*1972, Bulgaria) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of performance and visual arts. In 2004, Rossa and the Russian artist Oleg Mavromatti established Ultrafuturo, an international group of artists engaging with issues of technology and science and their social, political and ethical implications. Together with activist/philosopher Stanimir Panayotov, she has been the co-director of the Sofia Queer Forum since 2012. Rossa is associate professor for video art at Syracuse University.
artist's website:
boryanarossa.com
Boryana Rossa sees her performance
The Last Valve
, in which she sews her vulva shut with surgical thread, as a manifesto for a future that is free of gender distinctions. Rossa was inspired by transgender models of sexuality, by sexually hybrid human and animal bodies, and by the emergence of artificial robotic and biological cyborgs free of gender determinations. The video combines two recording processes, a regular video recording of the performance and a process, which converts the electrical potential of the artist’s skin into a video signal. The two recordings are given equal importance and are shown side by side.
Courtesy Boryana Rossa
Document media
2-channel-video, colour, sound, 5:00 min
Issue date
2004
Tags
de/construct identities
,
flesh
,
pain
,
touch
Back to selection
All work by this artist
Complete Archive
About the project
Partners
Imprint
Contact
Find us on facebook
abstraction
activism
aggression
aging
appropriation
authorship
be-coming
beauty
body control
body object relation
cabaret
capitalism
childhood
collectivity
conflict
consumerism
craft
dance/choreography
de/construct identities
death
desire
destruction
dis/ability
dis/appearance
dreamscapes
durational performance
exhaustion
extended body
failure
fashion/glamour
femininity
flesh
fluxus
fragmentation
gaze
happening
health/illness
his/herstory
housework/carework
human/non-human animals
in/visibility
inscription
institutional critique
intimacy
labour
language
laughter/humorous
lecture performance
manifesto
masculinity
masquerade
mass media
maternity
measuring
metamorphosis
migration
military
music
mythology
nationalism
nature
networks/affiliations
normativity
pain
painting/drawing
participation
patriarchy
pleasure
pop
post-communism
precarity
private/public
public space
queer
queer/drag
racism
re-enactment
repetition/seriality
resistance
ritual
roleplay
score
sexual violence
sexualities
skin
sound
state oppression
stereotypes
the common
therapy
torture
touch
trash
violence
voice
voyeurism
vulnerability