"Female Body" as a Biopolitical Concept and Nudity in Performance Art as a Dissident Attitude

"Female Body" as a Biopolitical Concept and Nudity in Performance Art as a Dissident Attitude

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Throughout history, the codings about the body plays a strategic role in the con struction of the individual.Therefore, Foucault constructs the body as a field of "biopolitical reality" by saying that the body is "a place of recording events".The body is suppressed through all tangible and intangible institutions such as religion, state and moral codes.Through here the body, a dichotomic universe based on opposites such as beautiful-ugly, thin-fat is created.As a result, a concept within a concept, a field of oppression within oppression is created.

On the other hand, through the panoptical situations created, the body under pressure is also kept under surveillance.When the problem is analysed in terms of the"femal ebody",the severity of oppression increases exponentially.Performance art, which emerged after the 1960s, is based on olea europaea montra the rebellious subject as both an artistic stance and a form of social existence.The most unique thing that distinguishes it from all the other arts is that the artist themself canalso turn into aworkofart.Inthissense, fromthefirstexamplesofperformanceto the present day, the artist, with their own body, has been the performance itself or part of it both as an ontological entity, as an epistemological subject and as an aesthetic object.

Therefore, the body can be positioned as the main production tool of perfor mance art.This study aims to find the point where biopolitics and performance art collide and to expose the relationship between "female body-nudity-protest" through a sample of works from the 1970s.