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Suspended @ Sissi. 2005

Suspended @ Sissi. 2005

- SISSI, Suspended, 2005. This was the piece presented for my show at the Italian Academy at Columbia University where I participated in an artist residency program. For the day, I substituted a couple of knitted cocoons for the American and Italian flags...

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Vetroninfea @ Sissi. 2001

Vetroninfea @ Sissi. 2001

- SISSI, Vetroninfea, 2001. This performance was presented for a show curated by Per Luigi Tazzi and Ann Demeester in a public area in the town of Watou, Belgium. The location I chose for the work was a small pond and in it, I laid on a floating leaf...

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Objet de femmes @ Augusta Atla. 2011

Objet de femmes @ Augusta Atla. 2011

- ATLA Augusta, Objets de femmes, 2011. A table is covered with a white sheet evidently prepared for a celebration. Around the table several women dressed in black begin to appear. Their black garments starkly contrast with the white of the embroidered...

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Tree of Wishes @ Raeda Saadeh. 2011

Tree of Wishes @ Raeda Saadeh. 2011

- SAADEH Raeda, Tree of Wishes, 2011. Performance at a central square of the Birzeit University Campus with the participation of students, who wrote their wishes on small pieces of cloth, tied them and thrw them at the ‘tree’. There were 3000 wishes at...

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Procession @ Teresa Murak. 1974

Procession @ Teresa Murak. 1974

- MURAK Teresa, Procession, 1974. In the very spring of 1974, the artist put on herself a cresse coat grown earlier (the working method being a reference to the tradition of handiwork and ‘female labor’), and set out on a Procession through the streets...

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Them-me @ Nisrine Boukhari. 2006

Them-me @ Nisrine Boukhari. 2006

- BOUKHARI Nisrine, Them-Me, 2006. Nisrine Boukhari (1980, Syrie) studied at the Fine Arts Faculty at Damascus University. In her installations, participatory projects and performances, Boukhari deals with questions of psycho-geography, aspects of interferences...

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Death Self @ Abramovic & Ulay. 1977

Death Self @ Abramovic & Ulay. 1977

- ABRAMOVIC Marina & Ulay, Death Self, 1977. This performance consisted of the two artist seated in front of each other, connected at the mouth. They look in each other’s breaths until all of their available oxygen had been used up. The performance lasted...

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