"For the invitations to her exhibitions Benglis used images of herself in various gender roles: posing like a man with her car, or in a pin-up style, submissive feminine role, for example." - from The Artist's Body ed. by Tracey Warr and Ameia Jones
Infamous in the history of modern art the history of feminist studies, this advertisement in Artforum has been called "brutalizing and exploitative." One thing's for sure, in the mid 1970s Benglis was a "hardcore girl."
Flash forward to October 2008...
The rapper Rye Rye might define herself as "hardcore." Probably not in the same explicit way as Benglis did. Project Bassline are pretty hard as you can probably tell by this REMIX that pairs Rye Rye's lyrics with some dirty bass synths.
Stay hard
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