{"id":3883,"date":"2014-12-15T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=3883"},"modified":"2019-12-01T20:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T18:23:52","slug":"new-visibility-for-very-old-symbols-viktoria-modesta-prototype-channel-4-spike-dance-media-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=3883","title":{"rendered":"New visibility for very old symbols? Viktoria Modesta, Prototype, Channel 4, “spike dance” [media review]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to Viktoria Modesta<\/a>, [link<\/a>], the new video has given her the chance to express some of her more extreme ideas and continue in her fight against being categorized. Along with the video’s director, Saam Farahmand, Modesta achieved these aims with the help of Sophie de Oliveira Barata at The Alternative Limb Project<\/a> \u2013 a fascinating venture which creates bespoke, often highly artistic, prosthetic limbs for clients. In the ‘making of’ film, de Oliveira Barata explains how she created two bespoke limbs for Modesta \u2013 one that lights up and has an exposed mechanism (see above), and another that is essentially an elegant spike which Modesta equates to a kind of power dressing. The latter design appears towards the end of the Prototype film in a sequence that brilliantly combines dance, colour and sound design to dramatic effect. “For a long time, pop culture closed its doors on me as an amputee and alternative artist,” Modesta explains. “I think\u00a0people have always found it hard to know what to think or feel about an amputee who wasn’t trying to be an Olympian.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Essentially, she is still in the process of counter-reacting to feeling as\u00a0a victim of society and poor ability, leg wise. The spike does transform her into “something” else. It gives her “special powers”. Also, there needed to be a deliberate collision between that “reality” and the one with the surgically cut off leg, as the director says in the “Making Of”. Viktoria Modesta says that she tries to “bring some equality” into “the equation”. Later the director admits that what she really is trying to do “is the big question”. Apparently, she is publicly exploring “the fullest, richest version of herself”. Modesta says that she is not considered to have a body that “is healthy in any terms”. The director states that the video “is naughty” “because” Victoria “is a naughty person”.<\/p>\n

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Images and video clip (C) Copyright Channel 4 \/ Viktoria Modesta<\/p>\n

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