Arvida Byström Instagram – As promised, here are a handful of times I referenced history and other l references:
1. Cherry Picking
My show Cherry Picking from 2018 was mainly built around selfies and still lives. The still life is a medium that a few hundred years back was seen as low in the hierarchy of genres and since women weren’t allowed to do nude studies, was labeled as more suitable for women to partake in.
More democratic and easily accessible for nonprofessionals, the painted still life, quite like the selfie, both are artforms that are feminized and low in hierarchy.
2. Pieta
Me with my beheaded AI sxx doll Harmony. In the christian creation myth God creates man in the image of himself. When we are creating an AI like iPhones Siri, like the companion app replika or the AI sex doll Harmony – are we being god creating AI in the image of us?
Or are we attempting to perfect the human and in this way is AI messiah?
3. Interior scroll
A funny pun on Carolee Schneemann’s “Interior scroll” from 1975. My interior scroll is instead a scroll from pinterest where i search for “feminist interior”, playing with the commodification of feminism. Also in nude underwear instead since I performed it on instagram live and couldn’t be nude.
4. L’origine du monde
My version called “The end of the world” being an image of the pu**y of my AI sexdoll questioning the fear we have toward AI being better than us and that it might take over all our romantic interactions.
5. 1636
As in the year of the burst of the tulip bubble, a show I made on the value of art, nfts with references to tulips and beanie babies. Just a little economic themed show with a girly aesthetic.
6. I’d rather be an iPhone than a woman
Referring to Helen Hesters text “Technically Female” which is a 😛 take from her on Donna Haraway’s quote “I Rather Be A Cyborg Than A Goddess” talking about how we take on laborious tasks previously done by women through technology in the guise of it being less work.
7. Tuvstarr
Unsure if a children’s book reference suffices in terms of whatever is asked for in terms of “references”, but Tuvstarr is truly one beloved iconic Swedish image.
Want to add more stuff but IG said too long text. | Posted on 14/Jul/2024 16:27:48
