Performance of the Feminists

As video recorded performances became a widespread phenomenon for new media artists, feminists had also taken interest in expressing their philosophies into the visual media. One such project was a multimedia performance depicting a graphic tableaux titled To Have No Power Is To Have Power, made by German artist Ulrike Rosenbach in 1978.

The image here was designed for the intention to "attempt in making feminist traditions through resistance to hegemonic representations of women."

Orlan (originally named Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte) was a french multimedia performance artist who would often alter her body through recordings of her surgical operations, by doing so she has made numerous self portraits of her many different appearances including the samples from below.