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what makes a man a man artists from around the world have different answers an exhibition exploring masculinity from the stereotypical to the subversive coming up here on arts and culture. but 1st for anyone interested in animal sexuality the short film series green porno by actress isabella rossellini is

a must also winnie who is the daughter of angered birdman and a former muse to david lynch has for years been dressing up as all kinds of animals reenacting their unique reproductive practices now she's launching a theater show live streamed from her very own farm. responding to her can you both. isabella rossellini is part actress part scientist for her short film series green porno she puts to use her master's degree in animal behavior creating a very intimate look at reproduction from the perspective of the birds and the bees and even worms yes i am both male and female. i need to mate with another read more. into 69 position here on the russell ynys green pornos are the basis for her 1st online performance

combining those videos with a live stream of her and her chickens sheep and dogs at her farm outside new york the show which launches friday is called sex and consequences. earlier i got to talk to isabella rossellini i asked her about the show's name your show is called sex and consequences i think the sex part is pretty clear what are the consequences. well i bet the sex part is not very clear for you because i'm talking also about animals that mate ira my friend die it's animal that have a sexual reproduction. the consequences i'm going to give you a surprise answer about the consequences of sex if you mate generation after generation and it's pieces that he's kind that's pieces will become come out or with patches think of dogs ancestor is a wolf but once stood wolf was domesticated dogs at patches so have cars so had

goats so have cats so there are consequences that are unexpected to if you. kind more cooperative individuals mate and i bet you didn't know that you jeff thought oh the consequences pregnant not not pregnant we talk about that too you've been in rehearsals for a while now with your dogs your chickens your sheep or severe animals is a talented the dog of course is training for the circus so she's the most to beat and where is she now there's one other dog here is not so b.d. and the hardest one to sheep because it began well and the other day they just broke into my house i go outside to let them. act with me in my porch but somehow their door was ajar and they just charge into the house and this is my house where you are which i'm using it as a studio it's

a barn that i converted into my house you know of your work about sexuality in the animal world do you think there's anything that animals get right when it comes to sex that humans don't. well you know i don't know what i was thinking i was talking about it to another professor who she's dirname is that hannah reese and she study dolphins and donkeys have very amber estates swim together they stroke each other they resist same sex sex so we were wondering if our culture we imposed on sex. only due to the goal of reproduction because and then we say oh then something strange happens with intelligence and we get all this complication raj it things will become gay or you know i don't know you can you know i want to change sex but this is all happening

in nature dolphins who are very telegenic they have a brain bigger than ours and they are considered a master most of animal but also they have a sexuality that he's not just use for reproduction as it has been for us also it's used for bonding for understanding each other to create. alliances so sometimes i would call ciar and skew our perception of sex you're speaking about evolution a moment ago what do you think you have learned the most out of this year and what we have your evolved from us through your time at home and lock down and during this online show with your animals. well i think i'm very resilient you know i think raising evolution technology. in front of our eyes just even you and i doing this interview. i think we do covert 19 and the problem d.s. created has speeded up the process of finding different ways of being together and

communicate and this has been my problem i mean well the theaters are closed in america and i think they're going to stay close for another year if not longer and how do you reconnect with your audience how do you keep that rating stories so i still get a lot of businessmen were you using zoom so i'm going to do a live show. it's not perfectly technologically perfect but if you think about the origin of cinema it was a silent movie and it was a big audience it was black and white and still had an audience and it isn't a technology that yes of course you want stylish beautiful things but it isn't the s. and i think the essence is what you have to say and as a bell or also in a had lots more to say about sex evolution and why she isn't voting for donald trump you can read more of that interview at d.w. dot com slash culture now here's a question are men that manly even when they dream this photo of sleeping israeli

soldiers is part of a new exhibition here in berlin that brings together 50 artists it's called masculinity is liberation through photography as a whole right went to check it out. masculinities what makes a man a man. according to a line of prada the curator of masculinities the gender is the ultimate isn't an ascension this cannot afford to be a particular way to leave and come in particular way to and. explore how much skin and seal the representation of masculinity has been kind of coded it's a she constructed and performed very specifically through the meeting the film and

photography from the sixty's and through to the present day a massive undertaking. to put the spotlight on and examining what is seen is normal is also to tell an untold story the 1st chapter disrupting the archetype breaks down the hyper masculine and finds it rife with contradictions like thomas toys x. found and painted studio photographs of young taliban fighters. the young men of color full of got may come pawing at their holding flowers or other things or holding hands and if that weren't for the occasional a k 47 in the picture you might think you were looking at afghanistan's gay culture a mishmash of semiotics and not the images of hyper masculine military men you might expect baskin it uses plenty of humor to dissect subjects like how fish is gay semiotics or try see moffat's have been sneaking shots of young men getting

changed at bondi beach in australia. the. humor is very much present throughout the say they want men to come to the shows and a come out self-loading the idea was to really kind of in a way in the title says liberation. anyway there is a sense of content the bringing them and allowing them to can fulfill their own personal emancipation they don't need to be in a straitjacket it would here is very kind of reaching way to what it means to be a man. the exhibition gives plenty of room to groups previously sidelined by the mainstream. like photographer sunil gupta. but for me it's meant to. believe that there was no visual representation that there because photography so to represent the. 2 of my life i've never seen you know images that are about. what's happening to me in. his is the

story of a gay indian migrant whose work beautifully documents many of recent histories most important periods of a struggle and liberation. from skinner g.'s a journey through the meanings of modern man this. whole ride back from that exhibition masculinities melissa what were the highlights for you yes some of the highlights for me what to do with family the subject of family one of them was called my mother's cupboards and my father's words they were by anna fox and one of fox does is she took images of these cupboards filled with household items and she juxtaposed them with her father's violent rantings so we have the collection of the items in the collection of the violent words i was very nice another thing that i really liked as well was richard billing her and raise a laugh 30 years ago he turned the camera on his alcoholic father ray and his

violent mother liz and took these tragic comic or full or very rough images of his family but i think the criticism is not so much on raw . a or on his mother on the on the wider society there's a lot of tenderness there they're also going to be making a film out of it a feature film called liz and ray this exhibition has gotten some criticism what can you tell us about that well the criticism well the exhibition tries to cover half the world's population and 60 here is a film and photography so not everybody is going to be happy some of the criticism surrounds the use of stereotypes and clichés that men are just put into categories based on their body tie all this 6 welty and that there are no ordinary men to be seen as an artist is it is that the men are working in the images except these

activists who are playing nazis well i guess that's work too isn't it acting it is but it's a fantastic exhibition 300 images absolutely definitely worth a look even if you don't go 100 percent with the politics behind. behind all this all right thanks so much for checking out that exhibition of masculinity this for us maybe we'll get to one called feminine. now earlier this week mexico's president. has obrador give his wife what he called an almost impossible mission trying to convince austria to return a further headdress believed to have been worn by the aztec emperor montezuma the 2nd but now the museum housing the artifacts says it's too fragile to be moved pretty hispanic relic is made of hundreds of feathers as well as more than a 1000 small gold plates ethnological museum says that moving the more than 500

year old item even within the building would risk irreparable damage mexico has been calling for its return for decades. well that's it for this edition of a. arts and culture from me and the whole team here in burma when thanks for watching have a great weekend. today i'm going to take you on a trip along the sex and wine route from tasting to myself. why in the name says a. 60 fun filled kilometers just have to come to the 2nd one move it's a small a wine region but it's got

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