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Valie Export
I[Beat(It)], 1980
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Three video monitors, VCRs, shackles, photograph, and lubricating oil
In work that evolved over three years from a performance piece to a video installation, EXPORT explores female vulnerability. Barking German shepherds menace the shackled woman who floats naked in a pool of oil.

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