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KARINA KOPPÁNY their project and series of events whence she recorded a video of the same title (Iam a Work of Art), in which she answered questions about the performanceevent of thirty years before." The short film lasts only 14 minutes.” The performance series includes the important events of Judit Kele’s life, from which she holds a kind of distorted mirror up to art. Cultural historians and gender researchers have written notable studies of how the social situation of women has changed over time, the functioning of the marriage market, and the social background of the partner selection process. Personality rights area particularly sensitive point in contemporary Western society, and in this case the most concerning point for them was that the marriage was not between two lovers. She expresses her views on the violation of social expectations, mocking the institution of marriage, using it as a kind of art object, since she has constantly re-created / re-invented herself, be it as a work of art, an auction item, a petitioner, a bride, a divorced woman or just a married woman. Moreover, the self-reflection is still not over, as a few decades later, but under a new title, Judit Kele came up with a subversive performance: in a new chapter, the artist married herself as part of the KontrAK Tus exhibition in Berlin. According to a feminist study of Kele’s projects and performances, the interpretive horizon of the works continues to expand. The use of the institution of marriage is related to, on the one hand, obtaining a visa, and on the other to the gender struggle in Central and Eastern Europe where these types of actions were necessitated, despite the sacrifice of identity and freedom it entailed for the women. BIBLIOGRAPHY AGENTS & Provocateurs, http://www.agentsandprovocateurs.net/index. php?lang=hu, accessed 28 August 2020. BUTLER, Judith: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York, Routledge, 1990. and about the different works they have given a platform to. It is based in the Contemporary Art Institute in Dunaújváros, where they also host the exhibitions. All of it can be found on their website, http://www.agentsandprovocateurs.net/index.php?lang=hu By choosing the title she was targeting the socio-cultural mechanism of value assignment. It reflects not only on marriage at that time but on being a work of art, and the passage of time through aging which affects both art and feminine beauty. In the movie women from three different generations are floating in the pool of youth. The story is about compulsive relationships of which participants have the possibility to feel free to connect with the same gender, to make a potential offer, that may lead out of the hetero-normative matrix. “Hock: Ibid. 40 + 174 ¢
