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Saint Orlan: Ritual As Violent Spectacle and Cultural Criticism

Alyda Faber
Publisher: Journals Gateway
TDR/The Drama Review (2002) 46 (1 (173)): 85–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/105420402753555868
Published: 01 March 2002
Abstract
The French performance artist's practice of self-directed violence creates a spectacle that violates the viewer and establishes Orlan's body as “a site of public debate.” Her work radically exposes the violence of patriarchically established “beauty standards.”
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