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Viola Bill
Bill Viola is a major figure in video art. His installations and videotapes, which have received international recognition, are distinguished by a confluence of allegorical resonance and virtuosic control of technology. Viola explores video's temporal...
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Pacing Upside Down @ Bruce Nauman. 1969
PACING UPSIDE DOWN, 1969 L a caméra installée en un point fixe, totalement renversée, montre Bruce Nauman, les bras tendus au-dessus de sa tête et les mains croisées, en train de se déplacer d'un pas saccadé autour d'un périmètre constitué par un carré...
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Suite 212 @ Nam June Paik. 1975
SUITE 212, 1975 by Nam June Paik. In collaboration with Douglas Davis, Jud Yalkut, and Shigeko Kubota. 1975, re-edited 1977, 30:23 min, color, sound Suite 212 is Paik's "personal New York sketchbook," an electronic collage that presents multiple perspectives...
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Lake Placid @ Nam June Paik. 1980
LAKE PLACID, 1980 Lake Placid' 80 est une métonymie des Jeux Olympiques d'hiver, créée par Nam June Paik en réponse à la commande du Comité national des Beaux-Arts des 13e Jeux, à Lake Placid, en 1980. Le sport et la fête sont réunis par l'image et le...
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Stamping In The Studio @ Bruce Nauman. 1968
STAMPING IN THE STUDIO, 1968 Stamping in the studio, comme un certain nombre d'oeuvres de Bruce Nauman, fait une proposition métaphorique et mathématique qui place l'artiste ainsi que le regard du spectateur au centre de cercles concentriques, de spirales...
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Merce By Merce By Paik @ Nam June Paik. 1978
MERCE BY MERCE BY PAIK, 1975 L'oeuvre Merce By Merce By Paik est composée de Blue Studio : Five Segments (1975-76), de Merce Cunningham et Charles Atlas, et de Merce and Marcel (1978), de Nam June Paik et Shigeko Kubota. A la suite de A Tribute to John...
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Vasulka Steina
Since the mid-1970s, Steina has explored intricate transformations of vision, space and sound, through a dynamic confluence of digital technologies, mechanical devices and natural landscape. After producing a pioneering body of work with Woody Vasulka...
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Abramovic Marina & Ulay
MARINA ABRAMOVIC ET ULAY Biography From 1976 to 1988, Marina Abramovic and Ulay undertook a rigorous artistic collaboration, during which they produced works in performance, video and life-size Polaroid photography. As seminal participants in the European...
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Conversions @ Vito Acconci. 1971
CONVERSIONS, 1971 1971, 65:30 min, three parts, b&w, silent, Super 8 film In these three exercises, Acconci plays with trans-gender illusions, manipulating and altering his own body parts to suggest sexual transformations. For example, he burns the hair...
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Election Tape @ Vito Acconci. 1984
ELECTION TAPE, 1984 1984, 2:03 min, color, sound Steeped in black humor, this concise political critique is Acconci's contribution to artist Jenny Holzer's collaborative Sign on a Truck project, which was presented on a Diamond Vision Screen in New York...
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Shoot @ Vito Acconci. 1974
SHOOT, 1974 1974, 10:18 min, color, sound Shoot is a bold, theatrical work that merges the autobiographical with the cultural. Acconci's performance is an assault, a barrage of aggressive action, visuals and language. Acconci imitates the sounds of war,...
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Paik Nam June
Nam June Paik is a major contemporary artist and a seminal figure in video art. His video sculptures, installations, performances and tapes encompass one of the most influential and significant bodies of work in the medium. From his Fluxus-based performances...
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Nam June Paik: Tigerlives. 1999
TIGER LIVES, 1999 1999, 45 min, color, sound Tiger Lives is a re-edited compendium of footage from Paik's classic videotapes, re-assembled in 1999 with new material and vivid electronic processing. Commissioned for broadcast on Korean television as part...
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Button Happening @ Nam June Paik. 1965
BUTTON HAPPENING, 1965 1965, 2 min, b&w, silent Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant videotape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the day he acquired his first Sony Portapak camera, this previously unknown work has recently...
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Video-Film Concert @ N. J. Paik & J. Yalkut. 1968-72
VIDEO-FILM CONCERT, 1966-72 by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut 1966-72, 1992, 34:50 min, b&w and color, sound Video Tape Study No. 3 1966-69, 4 min, b&w, sound Beatles Electroniques 1966-69, 3 min, b&w and color, sound Electronic Moon No. 2 1969, 4:30 min,...
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You Can't Lick Stamps In China @ N. J. Paik & G. Battcock. 1978
YOU CAN’T LICK STAMPS IN CHINA, 1978 by Nam June Paik and Gregory Battcock 1978, 28:34 min, color, sound A collaboration with the late art critic Gregory Battcock, You Can't Lick Stamps in China begins as a witty travelogue that explores the position...
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Vasulka Video @ Steina & Woody Vasulka. 1978
VASULKA VIDEO, 1978, 173 min, b&w and color, sound Transformations 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Vocabulary 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Matrix 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Steina 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Objects...
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1968 : chronologie performance
1968 - CLARK Lygia, Dialogo-Oculos, 1968. - EXPORT Valie, Tapp und Task Kino (Touch Cinema), 1968. For Touch Cinema, Export allowed to touch her breasts through a portable curtained contraption for 30 seconds per person. In the artist’s own words : «...
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1968 : chronologie performance
1968 - BARUCHELLO Gianfranco, Perforce, 1968. The flesh of children, the bodies of children, children in the ritual mechanics of sacrifice. The ring-a-ring o’roses of the tiny bird disappears in a blaze of napalm. The negro floats motionless; nothing...
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1965 : chronologie performance
1965 - BEUYS Joseph, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (Comment expliquer des peintures à un lièvre mort), 1965. Galerie Smela. Düsseldorf (fluxus-action) - BEUYS Joseph, Twenty-Four Hours, 1965. - BRUS Gunther, Selbstbemalung, 1965 (fluxus). - BRUS...
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La Convergence des arts 3
Toutefois, Helga de la Motte, dans un article justement intitulé La Peinture est comme la musique21 utilise le terme musicalisme inventé par le peintre français Henri Valensi, pour exprimer précisément cette idée que la musique peut servir de référent...
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Happening
- G. Berghaus, "Happenings in Europe in the '60s. Trends, Events, and Leading Figures", in revue TDR-Tulane Drama Review, volume 37, Number 4 (T140), Winter 1993, p. 157-168. - B. H. D. Buchloh, Experiments in The Everyday : Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts....
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Performance Définitions
La première définition du terme est apparue en Angleterre en 1494 et exprime l’idée d’“accomplissement d’une tâche, de mener à bien une action, un travail”. En 1709, l’English Dictionary parle de divertissement et d’exhibition publique. Il n’existe cependant...
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Happening
Le happening n’est pas une représentation plastique ou théâtrale conventionnelle. C’est un événement artistique ouvert et fluide, sans commencement structuré, ni milieu, ni fin. C’est un jeu sur la nature réelle de l’art et de la vie, de leur rapport...
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