@inbook{ba31849fa75b410fa87a1521acba8003,
title = "Anatomy of Shock: What Can We Learn from the Virgin-Whore Church?",
abstract = "The article looks closely at an event regarding excessive reactions to sexually explicit and sexually offensive images from various websites which Ulla Karttunen{\textquoteright}s work, Virgin-Whore Church (2008), used in an installation in an attempt to tear open established taboos or moral codes and expose the {\textquoteleft}pornographication of the mainstream.{\textquoteright} The artwork caused a national sensation in Finland and was shut down. The essay explores specific legal, moral, and institutional details of this event as a singular moment and places it more broadly in the context of excessive contemporary art, feminist art history, {\textquoteleft}shock art,{\textquoteright} and other art shown in Finland. In terms of education, V{\"a}nsk{\"a} looks at media through critical perspective and asks what is the responsibility of an artist in an era of social media, in terms of possibilities and limitations.",
keywords = "art, excess, pornography, social media, shock, Ulla Karrttunen, Virgin Whore Church",
author = "Annamari V{\"a}nsk{\"a}",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-21828-7_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-21827-0",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "161--182",
editor = "Kevin Tavin and Mira Kallio-Tavin and Max Ryyn{\"a}nen",
booktitle = "Art, Excess, and Education",
address = "United States",
}