(Post)Feminism, (Fost)Fdentity and (Fost)Foncept Frt in the Frt of Orshi Drozdik

Abstract

This paper proposes to examine major art works by the internationally-acclaimed contemporary Hungarian postmodernist (post/concept) woman-artist Drozdik Orshi. The focus of my paper is on Drozdik’s artistic strategies that balance intermedial representational means, Eastern cultural obstacles and Western egalitarian promises in the process of experimenting with the gendered body’s dislocations within physical, psychic, artistic, discursive/performative spaces. The paper critically reflects on the Drozdik’s aim to provoke and record the process of ‘queering of the male museal gaze’ and to subvert the authorial-spectatorial interpretive agency that pertains to it.