Piiskaa!
Video 1.13 min 2005
In Piiskaa! / Beat it! we see a woman cleaning a carpet.
Though clearly she is beating the carpet up...is she angry and why?
There is something provocative about a physical woman; even a loud laughter can provoke
some people. There is a prevailing notion that a loud physical woman is somehow deranged,
out of control.
“ Gender is a lived ideology – a system of ideas about men and women with which
we live our lives. As lived ideology those ideas get transformed into specific bodily
practices. Socially produced sex differences are embodied and lived out as real.
They are materialized as habit and taken for granted as second nature.” (Bordieu)
