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Organic Honey. Vertical Roll @ Joan Jonas. 1972
- JONAS Joan, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll, 1973. NYC. First performed in 1973 at the Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy. « I became interested in masks when I went to Japan in 1970. I went to the Kabuki and the No theatre every day for a month, and the level...
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El Abrazo @ Nieves Correa. 2006
- CORREA Nieves, El Abrazo 1, Madrid, 2006. Since the 1980s, Nieves Correa (1960, Spain) has been carrying out intense work in the field of artistic performance as well as organizing festivals and meetings and editing publications on performance art....
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Marcus Fischer, boy to man @ Oreet Ashery. 2007
- ASHERY Oreet, Marcus Fisher, boy to man, 2007. ‘Global Feminisms’, Brooklyn Museum, curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin. The work with my alter ego, the hybridic orthodox Jewish male Marcus fisher, includes videos, performances, interactions,...
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Visitors @ Chicks on Speed (COS). 2004
- CHICKS ON SPEED (COS), Visitors, 2004. Chicks On Speed (COS since 1997, Germany) were founded by Melissa Logan (USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Australia) in Munich as a multi-disciplinary art project.They were primarily active as a band until 2005, when...
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Binding Ritual, Daily Routine @ Mary Coble. 2004-2005
- COBLE Mary, Binding Ritual, Daily Routine, 2005. Binding Ritual, Daily Routine was a live performance that took place at Artists Space in NYC, NY in 2005 as part of ‘‘Performa’05’’. In this performance piece the artist repeatedly taped and untaped her...
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Un beso @ Cabello/Carceller. 1996
- CABELLO/CARCELLER, Un Beso, 1996. (vidéo) A heated discussion between two artists, the subject of which is irrelevant, acts as a soundtrack to a close-up of a long kiss – Un Beso. During the action, the faces seem to fight to occupy the centre of the...
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Bollos @ Cabello/Carceller. 1996
- CABELLO/CARCELLER, Bollos, 1996. The artistic team of Cabello/Carceller (1963, France/1964, Spain) was constituted in the 1990s. The duo focuses their visual research on the questioning of hegemonic and one-way modes of visual representation. The construction...
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Monument to Working Women @ Shirley Cameron, Monica Ross & Evelyn Silver. 1985
- CAMERON Shirley, ROSS Monica, SILVER Evelyn, Monument to Working Women. 1985 Shirley Cameron’s sculptural work from the 1960s developped into a hybrid practice in the 1970s that included performance and a collaboration with Roland Miller. In the 1980s,...
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Burning Bodies-Burning Country II @ Arahmaiani. 1998
- ARAHMAIANI, Burning Bodies-Burning Country II, Cultural Center Phillipines (CCP), Manila. Installation and performance at the conference ‘Women Imaging Women: Home, Body, Memory’, Manille. Acrylic paint, plastic flowers, scissors, crowbar, rice, drum...
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Single Wet Female @ Carmelita Tropicana. 2002
- TROPICANA Carmelita, Single Wet Female, 2002. Marga Gomez and Carmelita Tropicana Video still from’Single Wet Female’. Written with Marga Gomez, directed by David Schweizer. Play with video. Premiered at Performance Space 122 in NYC in 2002. Photo credit:...
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Family Sha la la @ Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen. 1998
- RASMUSSEN Lilibeth Cuenca, Family Sha La La, 1998. (Video) I gathered with my family with the intention of teaching them this group dance. We practiced for 8 hours and eventually everybody almost got it. I learned the choreography in the Philippines...
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RE-SPECT @ Mierle Laderman Ukeles. 1993
- UKELES Mierle Laderman, RE-SPECT, 28 octobre 1998, Givors, France. Performance with 27 city trucks, 3 barges, a recycled cobalt blue ‘‘diamond’’ on the barge deck. A 1 hour procession through town with trucks and also 100 kids, from a housing project,...
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Micro-Event No. 5 @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2000-2001
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-Event No.5/Nine Female Characters. Paris Pour Escale, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, 2000-2001. During a five-hour period, I enclosed in a 27 cubic-meter transparent plastic cube; I played nine female characters, each identifiable...
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EgoSong @ Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen. 2005-2006
- RASMUSSEN Lilibeth Cuenca, EgoSong, 2005-2006 In EgoSong the artist herself poses in a sun suit, a singing metaphor for the egotism and self-absorption that appears to take on an ever more prominent position as religion and driving force within the...
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About the living and the dead @ Boryana D. Rossa. 2006
- ROSSA Boryana D., About the Living and the Dead, 2006. Documentation has become more and more important for the history of art especially for the history of performance art. The spectators participate in the production of ‘‘art mythology’’. An enormous...
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Die schwangere Braut im Rollstuhl @ Renate Bertlmann. 1978
- BERTLMANN Renate, Die schwangere Braut im Rollstuhl, 1978. After a brief spell in Oxford, Renate Bertlmann (1943, Austria) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1964 to 1970, followed by twelve years of teaching at the same academy. In...
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Star Bright. Star Might @ Kate Gilmore. 2007
http://www.kategilmore.com/stills/index.html - GILMORE Kate, Star Bright. Star Might, 2007. In Star Bright, Star Might, a woman forces her made-up face through a star-shaped hole in a wood panel. The points break as her forehead pushes through, her face...
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Cake Walk @ Kate Gilmore. 2005
http://www.kategilmore.com/stills/index.html - GILMORE Kate, Cake Walk, 2005. The performance videos by the New York-based artist Kate Gilmore (1975, USA) are scenes of a perpetual fight between the artist and the problems and absurd difficulties she...
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I Try to Be Transparent @ Orshi Drozdik. 1980
- DROZDIK Orshi, I Try to Be Transparent, 1980. Factory 77, Toronto. Orshi Drozdik (1946, Hongrie, USA) has been working with normative representations of female body as a nude model and in nude drawings since she was an art student at the University...
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The Walk @ Sissi. 2003
- SISSI, The Walk, 2003. This installation, made as site specific project for my two-person show (with Ian Kiaer) at W139 in Amsterdam, consisted of a lerge structure created with hundreds of wooden sheets. During the opening I walked on the top of this...
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Micro-Event No. 20 @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 1998 & 2003
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-Event No.20/How to Become a Good Housewife: ‘‘Here, There and Nowhere’’, Quartier Éphémère, Montréal, 1998 and ‘‘What is Domestic Art 4?’’, Traffic Gallery, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, 2003. I read an article in a English magazine...
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Micro-Event No. 14 @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2002
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-Event No. 14/Future Bride Likes to Paint.‘‘Art & Vitrine’’, Rouger & Plé, Paris, 2002. I placed myself in an artist supply shop window on which is written: Future Bride Likes to Paint. I played these for four 2-hour sessions....
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Micro-Event No. 25 @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2005
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-Event No. 25/VIP Cocktails. Scènes de vie, Swiss Art Center, 2005. During the exhibit I served my VIP Cocktail (vodka, ice and apple juice=jus de pomme) behind a bar made of a block of ice. I was dressed as a bunny girl with...
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Micro-Event No. 18bis @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2006
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-Event No. 18bis/Marianne. ‘‘La Force de l’art’’, Grand Palais, Paris, 2006. In this Micro-Event I present a modern and cross-cultural version of the French Marianne, the national emblem of France. I was dressed in a white T-shirt...
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Micro-Event No. 9bis @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2000
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-Event No.9bis/A Female Boxer. ‘‘I am not a Penelope’’, François Mitterrand Art Center, Beauvais, 2000. I installed a bathtub, a TV monitor for screening the second performance of Micro-Event No. 9 ans a poster announcing the...