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Annabel // Petra Van Brabandt: To Heat By Melting


What do Cabanel’s Birth of Venus, Klein’s Anthropometry, and Kusama’s Self-Obliteration have in common? What connects Picasso’s Woman Peeing and Marlene Dumas’ watercolours? According to philosopher Petra Van Brabandt, these artworks deploy a wet aesthetic, which is realized through the perceptual interaction with wetness. This produces a strong erotic resonance and produces visceral effects in the viewer’s body. Queer pornographic art has radicalized this wet aesthetic by realizing its visceral, motoric, and tactile potential in a liquefying, emancipatory, and sex-positive project.


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As artist I use conversation and connective action to explore the public sphere as space of encounter with the political opponent. My work is time-based and results in videos, photos, objects, installations, curatorial projects and books. Vegapunk is an extension of my artistic practice in the domain of curating driven by extemporaneous curiosity. The focus is to highlight artistic practice as both an intellectual and physical process driven by dialogue (between people, formats, disciplines). Vegapunk tends to collaborate with artists whose discourse extends beyond the artistic frame to include researches entangled with the world, also in a social and political sense. From 2013 to 2020 VPK has been also a physical place. In 2021 VPK left the bricks of Via Palazzi 9 (Milan) to sail only into the web.

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