Hito Steyerl - Lovely Andrea and other documentaries

From Dispersion to London Festival of the art of Japanese Bondage

Dispersions of Henrik Olesen, Hito Steyerl, Seth Price, Anne Collier, Hilary Lloyd, Maria Eichhorn and Mark Leckey:
"The works in Dispersion often take the form of archives, histories or collections, sometimes adopting an anthropological approach. In many cases, they are characterised by an interest in feminism and gender politics in the realm of sexuality and sub-culture."

The one artist that completely endured my imagination was Hito Steyerl... recently I found that she has done a lot of other interesting documentaries and it seems she has quite an interesting approach as a documentary director - and very ingaging pieces as a result of this approach:



As part of Dispersion at the ICA, I saw Lovely Andrea... a documentary ....."In Tokyo she is looking for a photo series that she posed for in 1987 as a “rope bondage” model. While making inquiries with experts and authorities in the bondage arts (which are mainly marketed online nowadays), she found what she was looking for in a magazine archive...."

"....By associatively linking desire and bondage, voluntary subjection and captivity, dependencies, networks, complicity, and cliques, Steyerl creates a polysemous play of thought: Who are the string pullers? Who are the puppets? How do things stand with the pictures?...."

Coming to my main interest ... japanese bondage... it's fascinating to observe it although I haven't seen it live, to see pictures of it....and experience it as a subject... the model in Lovely Andrea says it beeing tied is liberating... will see.