[spectre] Prison of love at MNCARS, Madrid

[pol]

"Prison of Love" - 
Cultural stories on Gender Violence
(Cárcel de amor. Relatos culturales sobre la violencia de género)
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A presentation curated by Berta Sichel, Virginia Villaplana and Remedios Zafra, and Rosa Mª Peris, director of the Women Institute.
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31 March until 8 May 2005 
at
National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spain
<http://www.carceldeamor.net/>
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The show "Prison of Love", presenting multiple perspectives and views on violence in couple and family-
their limits and energy expressing the changing and heterogenous relations between the cultural analysis, the political critics and the artistic production, - is structured in 5 parts interrelating with each other e.g 
a cycle of films and videos, an Internet based online part, conferences and meetings and the edition and an action by Angélica Liddell.

The online part of the show is entitled "Violence without Bodies" ("Violencia Sin Cuerpos")
<http://www.carceldeamor.net/vsc>
and consists of a selection of netart works about gender violence 
including following aspects and related artworks/artists-->

1. "SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE IN MYTHS": 
(Evas and Princesses contra Cyborgs)
Brutal Myths. An herbal healing of misogynius (1996), Sonya Rapoport y Marie-Jose Sat; 
Mythic Hybrid (2002), Prema Murthy
Make me a man (1997), Sonya Rapoport; 
Eden.Garden 1.1 (2001), Auriea Harvey y Michael Samyn;
[ i want to share you - what are you doing to me? ] (2001), Intima (Igor Stromajer). 
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2. Narrated violence (when body does not exist ):
Compressed Affair (2001), Agricola de Cologne; 
Parthenia "A Global Monument Violence Domestic Victims” (1995) Margot Lovejoy; 
The Intruder (1999), Natalie Bookchin; 
Dollspace (1997, 2001), Francesca da Rimini 
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3. Does body matter? (cybersex and videogame)
Tomb Raider (1999), Robert Nideffer. 
Tunnel (1996), Melinda Rackham. 
BindiGirl (1999); Prema Murthy; 
Cunnilingus in North Korea (2003); Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Young-hae Chang y Marc Voge); Mutation.Fem (2000), Anne-Marie Schleiner. 
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4. New Visibility of the Prevailed-
(feministe online practices contra the hegemony of being able to camouflage)-: 
Smart Mom (1998-1999), Faith Wilding y Hyla Willis; 
voyeur_web (2001), Tina La Porta; 
El lugar de las mujeres en el Metro de la Ciudad de México (2001), Cindy Gabriela Flores; 
Guerrilla Girls (Website), Guerrilla Girls; 
No-pasatiempo (2004), Cristina Buendía.
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The comprehensive project site <http://www.carceldeamor.net/vsc> includes a number of texts 
( in Spanish only) and the access to the selected art works.
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After the presentation of "Prison of Love"
at National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid/Spain - 31 March until 8 May 2005 - 
the travelling show will be presented in other Spanish museums until the end of 2005 including
-->Hospital de San Juan de Dios. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Almagro/Spain
12 May - 19 June
-->Centro Párraga, Murcia /Spain - 12 - 28 July 
-->Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, CAB/Spain - 8-30 September
-->Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Álava/Spain - 
30 September -16 October
-->Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida/Spain - 3 - 29 November
-->Filmoteca Canaria del Gobierno de Canarias. Tenerife y Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
28 November - 4 December
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Links-->
"Cárcel de amor" (Prison of Love)
<http://www.carceldeamor.net/>
"Violencia Sin Cuerpos" (Violence without Bodies)
<http://www.carceldeamor.net/vsc>
Press release on W3art.es (Spanish)
<http://w3art.es/weblog_archivos/000244.php>
Press release as PDF (Spanish)
<http://w3art.es/mncars/archivo/folleto%20Carcel%20de%20amor.pdf>