Orshi Drozdik: Adventure in Technos Dystopium : work, writings, exhibitions 1970-1995

Abstract

"As attested by her inclusion in several important survey exhibitions, including The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain at the Wende Museum, Los Angeles (2019-20), Orshi Drozdik is one of the most significant Eastern European women artists working in experimental performance, photography, installation and writing beginning before the fall of the Berlin Wall. During and following her moves from Budapest, Hungary to Amsterdam, Canada and then New York (1978-81), she worked in close relation to feminist, critical, and experimental literary practices associated with New York postmodernism as it developed from the later 1970s through the early 1990s Her magnum opus, Adventure in Technos Dystopium (1983-95) offers one of the most ambitious and multifaceted inquiries into the constellation of issues in discussion at this time around gendered indentities, appropriation, re-photography, institutional critique, cultural memory, and relations between art and science. Drozdik took on the truth-claims of scientific paradigms, including their predicates of change and "progress," addressing the regimes of repressive power associated with the politicization of knowledge and the defaults and consequences of the scientific production and mangament of bodies."-- Provided by publisher.