Katalin Ladik’s performance Blackshave Poem (Novi Sad, Zagreb 1978; Budapest, 1979; Baltimore, 1980) featured the radical presentation of a woman’s visibility and her identity against the cultural clichés and patterns of self-perception, of showing herself to others, of being seen by the others, and of verbal/bodily communication with the other(s). In those pieces, Katalin Ladik’s feminine position approached the feminist positions on representation of the woman’s body in the realm of ideologically motivated identifications within a patriarchal culture. For example, deconstruction of the cliché surrounding female eroticism perceived as eroticism of the woman-object for the gaze of the man-subject was performed in Blackshave Poem in the form of a fake striptease. The artist simulated nudity and the spectacle of stripping. Dressed in black pants and black roll collar blouse she put on women’s underwear (bra, panties) and, on top of that, a folk costume dress. Her para-rituals of undressing and, for instance, splashing in shaving foam, were straightforwardly associated with the black clothes which stood for nudity.  – Róna Kopeczky
(Róna Kopeczky, “Blackshave Poem | Forgotten Heritage”, n.d., Forgotten Heritage, available at: https://www.forgottenheritage.eu/artworks/3814/blackshave-poem#11)