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Milo Moiré (; born 7 May 1983) is a Swiss
pornographic film actress A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie. Such videos tend to be made in a number of dis ...
, conceptual artist, and model known for her nude
performances A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function. Management science In the work place ...
and the use of her body in her art. Moiré was born in Switzerland, of Slovak and Spanish origin. She has an art school background and a master's degree in psychology from University of Bern in Switzerland (magna cum laude). Moiré is known for performance art pieces including ''PlopEgg, The Script System No.2,'' and ''Mirror Box.'' Currently, she does daily live pornography that can be viewed for a fee through her website and social networks.


''PlopEgg''

Moiré's ''PlopEgg No. 1'', performed at
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2014, was a work of
action painting Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical a ...
that involved the expelling of paint filled eggs from her vagina on to a canvas, thus creating an abstract work of art.The artist who lays eggs with her vagina – or why performance art is so silly
Jonathan Jones,
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, 22 April 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
The eggs contained ink and acrylic paint. A video description of the work states "At the end of this almost meditative art birth performance the stained canvas is folded up, smoothed and unfolded to a symmetrically reflected picture, astonishingly coloured and full of trength" The folding of the resulting canvas created a work which has been compared to a
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and a
womb The uterus (from Latin ''uterus'', plural ''uteri'') or womb () is the organ in the reproductive system of most female mammals, including humans that accommodates the embryonic and fetal development of one or more embryos until birth. The uter ...
. Moiré writes: "To create art, I use the original source of femininity – my vagina."


''The Script System No. 2''

In June 2014, for ''The Script System No. 2'', Moiré travelled to
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naked with the names of items of clothing marked on her body in paint; she was refused entry, forcing her to dress to enter the exhibition. Of ''The Script System'', she has said " tis inspired by the
script theory Script theory is a psychological theory which posits that human behaviour largely falls into patterns called "scripts" because they function analogously to the way a written script does, by providing a program for action. Silvan Tomkins created s ...
of
cognitive psychology Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism, which ...
. Each of us knows these scripts (e.g. restaurant script), recurrent, stereotyped action sequences, after which we work every day. Especially early in the morning on the way to work, we work almost automatically, often without awareness of our environment. These everyday blindness I wanted to break through my performance." Moiré claims that lacking an outer shell of clothes, the human body regains its ability to communicate without the distractions of money, fashion, ideology or even time. The experience of the art viewer is also transformed with the reaction or non-reaction of the public an integral part of the performance. Her first nude performance was in 2007 and she has performed nude ever since in order to provide an authentic and unmediated experience. In 2016 she performed naked to protest the 2015 New Year Eve sexual attacks in Germany.


''Mirror Box''

The project titled “Mirror Box” saw the artist walk around various European cities with a large mirrored structure covering her body. Using a megaphone to attract attention, she would then invite strangers to stick their hands in the box, and fondle either her breasts or vulva for a 30-second period. In her performance in summer of 2016, which took place in several major cities: Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, and London, Moiré invited the public (people over the age of 18) to touch and fondle her genitals and breasts inside a mirror box, for 30 seconds per person. The performance resembles the work "Touch and Tap Cinema" by
Valie Export Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist. She is best known for provocative public performances and expanded cinema work. Her artistic work also includes video installations, computer an ...
, performed from 1968 to 1971.


Art or pornography

Moiré has deliberately placed herself on the interface between art and pornography with videos on her website described as "uncensored" that are available to view for a fee, and the naked performance of her works inviting the act of censorship by media outlets. Moiré has said that there should be no limit to art and that death is the only limit she accepts. She has cited
Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audienc ...
and
Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( , ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism, sociology, and anthroposophy. He was a founder of a provocative art mov ...
as particular influences.Milo Moiré : «Depuis le début, je suis nue»
by Valérie Duponchelle, ''
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'', 25 June 2014.


Criticism

Writing about ''PlopEgg'' in ''
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'' in a piece entitled, "The artist who lays eggs with her vagina – or why performance art is so silly", Jonathan Jones commented, "And yet it's not a strong statement at all. It is absurd, gratuitous, trite and desperate. Anywhere but an art gathering, this would be regarded as a satire on modern cultural emptiness." Jess Denham in ''
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'' commented, "Not long ago there was Lady Gaga's 'vomit artist', but now Milo Moiré is making her look tame", adding, "the latest desperate effort to shock in the name of art."


Arrests

In 2015, Moiré was arrested by French police, and spent the night in the cells, after posing for naked "selfies" with tourists in front of the
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. The following year, she was arrested again in London for inviting members of the public to place their hands into a mirrored box around her body and caress her breasts or her vulva.


Personal life

Moiré lives in
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with her partner, the photographer Peter Palm.


Selected works

*''The Script System No. 1'', performance video, 2013. *''The Split Brain'', video, 2013. *''The Script System No. 2'', performance video, Art Basel, 2014. *''PlopEgg No. 1 – A Birth of a Picture'', performance work, 2014.


See also

* Pricasso *
Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and ...


References


External links


Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moire, Milo Living people Swiss women artists Swiss performance artists 1983 births Abstract artists Swiss female models Swiss people of Slovak descent Swiss people of Spanish descent Swiss expatriates in Germany 21st-century Swiss artists