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Encounter(s) @ Teja Shah. 2006

Encounter(s) @ Teja Shah. 2006

- SHAH Tejal, Encounter(s), live performance, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 2006. Swathed in a shell of white embroidered fabric, two bodies wrap themselves to an urban landscape in shape with the architecture. The straitjacket exoskeleton joined at the...

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Roadworks @ Mona Hatoum. 1985

Roadworks @ Mona Hatoum. 1985

- HATOUM Mona, Roadworks (Actions de rue), 1985, vidéo, couleur, son 6’45’’. (Brixton) Dans cette performance, Mona Hatoum marche dans la rue pieds nus, une paire de Doc Martens attachés à ses mollets par les lacets. Bien que nus et vulnérables, les pieds...

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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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