DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2024.2.13| CORODAN: THE SELF SLIDES OVER THE SELF WITH FRICTION_ INSIGHTOUT 2(2024) 90Alexandra CorodanThe self slides over the self with friction1Thoughts on Ion Grigorescu’s“Masculin-Feminin”(1976)ABSTRACTHow does the fragmented and stratified logic of recording technologies interact with perception and what role do experimental film strategies play in the production of alternativenarratives of gender?In his practice, Romanian artist Ion Grigorescu countered prevailing codes exuded by the national communist regime, by positively addressing the infrastructure of recording technologiessuch as analogue photography and film. Not dissociating from the ideological construction byrepresenting the artefacts contradicting its doctrine, but by equally affirming both the fragmented and stratified nature of the media and exploring its semiotic potential, Grigorescuraised questions regarding the nature of machine, body, sexuality and domestic space. Tongue-in-cheek and vaguely crude, his 1976 film Masculin-Feminin film proposes a distinct modelof hybridity, that through mechanical eyes, jumping frames, disjointed bodies and almost indecipherable letters, scratches at the codes that sustain dictatorial reality.CVAlexandra Corodan is an art historian and cultural worker; she lives and works in Vienna. Sheholds a Master's degree in Art History from the University of Vienna and is currently studyingCritical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her research focuses on the EasternEuropean neo-avant-garde, media theory and its performative approaches. Using experimental zines and short prose, she investigates the potential of fragmentation and montage asan interdisciplinary practice. Corodan currently works in the archive department of ESTATEBrigitte Kowanz.KEYWORDSExperimental film, Eastern european art, Neo-Avantgarde, HybridityAlexandra Corodan,“The self slides over the self with friction: thoughts on Ion Grigorescu’s“Masculin-Feminin”(1976)”,insightOut. Journal on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collectionsand Cultures, 2(2024), 89–96, DOI: 10.60531/insightout.2024.2.13DOI: 10.60531/insightout.2024.2.13Published under license CC BY-NC-ND 4.01I. Grigorescu,Ion Grigorescu: Diaries and Dreams 1976–1979,ed. by G. Schöllhammer and A. Mihail(Berlin, 2021),233.
