Meat dress
A meat dress refers to a piece of clothing made of meat. A dress made from raw beef and worn by pop singer Lady Gaga at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards became known worldwide . Meat dresses were made and worn for artistic purposes and for marketing on various occasions.
Cultural history
In earlier Vanitas representations and in the picture of the dance of death , the fleshy interior of the body is occasionally turned outwards. These representations allude to ideas that were widespread in antiquity, which take pleasure in contrasting ephemeral beauty and the evanescence underneath or use them as memento mori . There are also similarities with the aesthetics of Gunther von Hagens' plastinates . Hermann Nitsch's use in performances with meat detached from the body must be differentiated from this.
While fur or leather have a long tradition as clothing and have significant iconographic symbolic contents, the use of meat as clothing or costume is unusual. Apparently she turns the flesh inside the body outwards. The art campaign Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic by Jana Sterbak , first carried out in 1987 , takes the corresponding older ideas literally. A young woman appeared in a dress made of ox meat.
On the album All Wrapped Up of The Undertones a female model wearing mainly of ham and sausages existing clothes. The architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro also made a meat dress for a beauty contest and propagated it in 2006 in a book about "Architecture as a body extension". In contrast, the presentation of food on a (mostly female) body, as it was already found in pictures and actions by Meret Oppenheim and Salvador Dalí , as well as allusions and depictions of cannibalism, must be separated from it.
Lady Gaga's meat dress
Appearance 2010
Lady Gaga had already worn a flesh bikini at a show in 2010. In the run-up to the MTV Video Music Awards , she was the most-named artist with 13 nominations. At the award ceremony on the evening of September 12, 2010, she initially wore a dress by Alexander McQueen and later switched to one by Giorgio Armani . Only when she received the award presented by the singer Cher did she wear a dress, hat, shoes and a handbag made of raw beef.
She then gave interviews, such as on The Ellen DeGeneres Show , and was photographed in the dress for the press. She told the vegan Ellen DeGeneres : “ If we don't stand up for what we believe in and if we don't fight for our rights [,] pretty soon we're going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones. ”( Lady Gaga 2010 , German:“ If we don't stand up for what we believe in and don't fight for our rights, we will soon have no more rights than the meat on our bones. ”) DeGeneres had considerable problems with this, besides Lady Gaga to sit. Lady Gaga had showered herself with fake blood at the VMAs the year before, which u. a. was interpreted as a softened MTV interpretation by Nitsch.
Influences
The design and execution of the dress came from Franc Fernandez (concept) and Nicola Formichetti (styling). They did not comment on artistic influences on the work. In spring 2010, the painter Mark Ryden exhibited a picture called Incarnation from 2009 at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York , which shows a girl hung with meat and sausages. Ryden thought an accidental connection with the meat dress was unlikely. However, Jana Sterbak, Julia Kissina and Zhang Huan have also published similar works. MTV published a comparison of both dresses the day after Lady Gaga's appearance. New York artist Zhang Huan wore a meat suit for a performance at the Whitney Museum in 2002 . The artist Carolee Schneemann , who also lives in New York, used meat as a means of expression as early as 1964 in performances filmed under the title Meat Joy . Art critic Emma Allen saw an influence of Zhang Huan's and Schneeman's work on the meat dress.
reception
During Halloween 2010, pasties and imitations of the meat dress came into fashion, and the dress was also recreated by students. It was exhibited in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011 after it was preserved and colored in the form of beef jerky .
Controversial voices came from animal rights activists and the organization PETA . In addition to a general rejection, it was suggested on the occasion of Lady Gaga's appearance at the 2011 Indian Grand Prix that she should be wrapped in cabbage leaves to compensate. Karen Rosenberg of The New York Times compared the dress to works by the painter Francis Bacon . Eric T. Hansen stated under the title We Amis are stupid, but have fun doing it , Lady Gaga's meat dress has enormous political impact, American anti-intellectualism enables an enormously productive popular culture .
Web links
- Gaga, well hung up: Meat dress comes to the museum - video at Spiegel Online , 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Metzger : meat dress. In: Arttmagazine.cc , September 15, 2010.
- ↑ a b Judith Kessler: Lady Gaga shocked. Meat on the ribs. In: Frankfurter Rundschau Online , September 13, 2010.
- ↑ a b c d The material of art. Special edition: Another history of modernity, by Monika Wagner, CH Beck, 2002
- ↑ Christopher Knight: Lady Gaga, meat Jana Sterbak. In: latimes.com , September 13, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Martin Gayford: Lady Gaga's Fleshy Outfit Echoes Artistic Lobsters, Maggots. In: Bloomberg.com. September 17, 2010, accessed October 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Ashley Seashore: Lady Gaga's Meat Dress and the Question of Authenticity. ( Memento from December 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: thegloss.com , September 13, 2010 (English).
- ↑ Music Piracy: Artists Like Lady Gaga are to Blame. In: lovelyish.com. July 9, 2011, archived from the original on October 6, 2013 ; accessed on February 25, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Compare among others Flesh: Architectural Probes , Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Princeton Architectural Press, January 1, 1996
- ↑ Jocelyn Vena: Lady Gaga, Eminem Top VMA Nominations . In: MTV News . Viacom . 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ↑ Caryn Ganz: Meet the Mystery Meat Dress: Lady Gaga Explains Rare VMAs Outfit . In: Stop the Presses! . Yahoo! . September 12, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ↑ a b So about Lady Gaga's meat dress… . In: The Marquee Blog . CNN . September 14, 2010. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
- ^ Paul Kasmin Gallery: Mark Ryden. The Gay 90's: Old Tyme Art Show. Apr 29 - Jun 5, 2010 . Presentation online , accessed October 8, 2013. - Incarnation by Mark Ryden on YouTube , accessed October 8, 2013
- ↑ Malla Wollan: Painting a Porterhouse. Interview with Mark Ryden, in: Meatpaper , March 2011, online , accessed October 8, 2013
- ↑ Sharon Clott: Does Lady Gags's Meat Dress remind you of Mark Ryden's Paintings? style.mtv.com, September 13, 2010, online , accessed October 8, 2013
- ↑ Catalog raisonné ( Memento of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 8, 2013. - Video, accessed on October 8, 2013
- ^ Performance Chronology, catalog raisonné, accessed October 8th. - Video, accessed October 8, 2013
- ↑ Emma Allen: Not Rare, But Well Done. The Art History Behind Lady Gaga's Meaty VMA Look. In: Blouin Artinfo, September 15, 2010, online, accessed October 8, 2013
- ↑ Sandie Whitelocks: Lamb breast corset and a Cumberland sausage bustier… A group of aspiring designers recreate Lady Gaga's meat dress . In: Daily Mail , Associated Newspapers, May 11, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
- ↑ Jill Mapes: Women Who Rock 'Exhibit Opens, Features Lady Gaga's Meat Dress . In: Billboard , Prometheus Global Media, May 13, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
- ↑ And all because the lady loves raw meat dresses, What do you do when your best frock begins to decompose? Call the celebrity taxidermist… Guy Adams recounts a lurid Hollywood tale, The Independent 2011
- ↑ From Carnivore to Vegetarian: Lady Gaga's Lettuce Dress , by Cavan Sieczkowski, October 29, 2011, IBT
- ↑ Karen Rosenberg: Two Visions of Meaty Flesh and Blood . In: The New York Times , May 12, 2011. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
- ↑ Eric T. Hansen: We Americans are stupid, but we have fun doing it. In: Zeit Online , February 5, 2013.