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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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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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Kuenstlermilch/Artist's Milk @ Isabel Czerwenka-Wenkstetten. 2012
- CZERWENKA-WENKSTETTEN Isabel, Kuenstlermilch/Artist’s Milk, 2012. Performance about the need of nourishng ourselves from what we find in ourselves, especially in a phase of drastic change or crisis, as an artist and as a human being. Photographed by...
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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
- 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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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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Make Up Make Down @ Sanja Ivekovic. 1976
- IVEKOVIC Sanja, Make Up-Make Down, 1976. Already in the 1970s Sanja Ivekovic (1949, Croatie) dealt explicitly with feminist and political themes in her photographs, videos, collages, performances and public art. She explores the image of women in communist...
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Instruction No. 1 @ Sanja Ivekovic. 1976
- IVEKOVIC Sanja, Instrukcije br 1, 1976. Already in the 1970s Sanja Ivekovic (1949, Croatie) dealt explicitly with feminist and political themes in her photographs, videos, collages, performances and public art. She explores the image of women in communist...
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Women at Work-Washing up @ Maja Bajevic. 2001
- BAJEVIC Maja, Women at Work-Washing up (Trilogy), 2001. Washing up is also part the trilogy Women at Work and features the artist and two other women in a Turkish bath in a performance that took place during the 7th Istanbul Biennal. In a symbolic act,...
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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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Women at Work-Under Construction @ Maja Bajevic. 1999
- BAJEVIC Maja, Woment at Work-Under Construction (Trilogy), 1999. In her collective performances with other women, Maja Bajevic (1967, Bosnie-Herzegovine) relocates women’s handiwork – washing, stitching and sewing – to public space, transforming these...
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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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Offerings from A to Z @ Arahmaiani. 1996
- ARAHMAIANI, Offerings from A to Z, 1996. Installation and performance in a buddhist crematorium in Chiangmai, Tailand. Here, as the following piece blood symbolizes violence and is at the same time, an ambivalent metaphor for fertility and the discrimination...
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Ouve-me @ Helena Almeida. 1978-79
- ALMEIDA Helena, Ouve-Me, 1978-79. Helena Almeida lives and works in Lisbon. A sculptor’s daughter, Almeida began her career as a painter, turning her canvases into three-dimensional objects. The first exhibition of her work was shown en 1967 at galeria...
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The Nostalgia Remix @ James Luna & Guillermo Gomez-Pena. 2011
- Luna James & Gómez-Penã Guillermo, La Nostalgia Remix, 2011. Two extreme performance artists and shamans decide to become lounge entertainers and share their bizarre performance art with new audiences in an attempt to jumpstart a new religion for cultural...
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Performance in Paradise Garage @ Grace Jones. 1985
- JONES Grace et HARING Keith, Performance in Paradise Garage, 1985. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Grace Jones boldly interrogated both racial and sexual stereotypes associated with the black female body, through her work in performance. Interestingly,...
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Body Press @ Dan Graham. 1970-73
- GRAHAM Dan, Body Press, 1970-73. Two film makers stand (within a surrounding and completely mirrorized cylinder), body trunk stationary, hands holding and pressing a camera’s back end flush to, while slowly rotating it about the surface cylinder of...
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Installation 2 (Primary Structures, Primary Meanings)
Le minimalisme n’est probablement pas seulement un phénomène culturel américain, il possède une portée plus large, une expression à la fois picturale, musicale, sculpturale, chorégraphique, voire cinématographique et littéraire. C’est sans doute une Structurforschung,...
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Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square @ Bruce Nauman. 1967-688
- NAUMAN Bruce, Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeters of a Square, 1967/68. 16 mm. Film, 9 mns. b/w. Silent. 1967-68, 10 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off...
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Cockfeather Mask for Dieter @ Rebecca Horn. 1973
- HORN REBECCA, Performances, 1968-1973. The photos document performances which he took place in the years 1968-72 (73?). For each performance the number of participants was limited, because intense interpersonal perception is only possible in a small...
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Finger Gloves @ Rebecca Horn. 1972
- HORN REBECCA, Performances, 1968-1973. The photos document performances which he took place in the years 1968-72 (73?). For each performance the number of participants was limited, because intense interpersonal perception is only possible in a small...
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Cock and Cunt Play @ Judy Chicago. 1970 Text
Re-Enact : FOX Oriana, Cock and Cunt Play, 2009. Once More With Feeling. Tate Modern Gallery. 27 June 2009. Londres (Re-Enact Judy Chicago, 1970). Performed with Judy Batalion, Genevieve Maxwell, and Sharon Bennett. This piece is a contemporary of Judy...
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Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York @ Gilbert & George. 1972
- GILBERT & GEORGE, Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York, 1972. (no UP, no DOWN) Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York He had ten thousand men And he marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again And when they were up, they were up And when...
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Chainsmoke-Flavor Mint-Portrait by Rumor/Out of sight Out of Mind @ Howard Fried. 1972
- FRIED Howard, Chainsmoke-Flavor Mint- Portrait of Flower, 1972. « Object… Howard Fried’s transmitted image. Object modifier… Howard Fried. Subject… the transmission of Howard Fried’s image. Subject modifier… Anne Evans. » (see Lea Vergine, p. 100 and...
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Pissing @ Tom Marioni. 1970
Performed in the MOCA series Sound Sculpture As, Marioni after drinking beer all day pissing into a tub and « the sound pitch went down as the water level went up. » In the late sixties Tom Marioni, using the pseudonym Allan Fish, created an artwork consisting...