Word: hoopskirts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extreme aesthetic are still visible today in the ghoulish makeup and gestures of butoh dancers. Similarly, Shoko Maemoto creates souvenirs from a nightmare alley where fairy- tale fantasy meets a haunting eroticism. Meticulously executed, her work has a grisly elegance, as in Silent Explosion, 1988, a mannequin-less burlap hoopskirt from which a torrent of "blood" cascades, blazing, to the floor...