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Proporties @ Dora Maurer. 1979
- MAURER Dóra, Proporties, 1979. Dóra Maurer (1937, Hungary) is one of the most important figures of Hungarian art since the 1970s. Together with Orshi Drozdik and Judit Kele, she was one of the pioneers of feminist body and performance art in Hungary....
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Lora Sana @ Carola Dertnig. 2004
- DERTNIG Carola, Lora Sana, 2004. Carola Dertnig (1963, Austria) bases her work on the intertextuality of different artistic practices such as drawing, photgraphy and text. Her collages as well as her videos and performances interrogate and critique...
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La Destruccion @ Marta Minujin. 1963
- MINUJIN Marta, La Destruccion, 1963. Marta Minujin (1941, Argentina) played a key role in the avant-garde in Argentina in the 1960s and 70s. In 1963, she staged her first joint happening in Paris, La Destruccion, in which she and fellow artists burned...
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Aversion @ Mary Coble. 2007
- COBLE Mary, Aversion, 2007. Aversion was a live performance piece that took place at Conner Contemporary Art in Washington, DC in 2007. In this performance piece the artist attached electrodes to her arm and had herself shocked, with an electric shock...
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Budding Gourmet. Semiotics of the Kitchen @ Martha Rosler. 1974-75. videotape
- ROSLER Martha, Budding Gourmet : Semiotics of the Kitchen (videotape b/w), 1974-75. This and A Budding Gourmet are part of an ongoing body of work about consuming habits that includes not only videotapes but also performance works, dialogues and serial...
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The Night Thing @ Nicola L. 1991
- NICOLA L., The Night Thing, 1991. Performances-Installations The Night Thing East Hampton NYC, Pollock/Krasner House Benefit. Friday June 14th and Saturday, June 15th 1991. The idea is to be inside the canvas. Being five inside the canvas. The Canvas...
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Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained @ Martha Rosler. 1977
- ROSLER Martha, Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained, 1977. (video) Since the early 1970s, Martha Rosler’s (1970) works have constructed social and political analyses of the myths and socio-political realities of contemporary culture. Her video...
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The Last Valve @ Boryana Rossa. 2004
- ROSSA Boryana with ULTRAFUTURO, The Last Valve, 2004. Boryana Rossa (1972, Bulgaria) is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of performance and visual arts. In 2004, Rossa and the Russian artist Oleg Mavromatti established Ultrafuturo,...
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Strukturen I und II @ Christine Schlegel. 1984-85
- SCHLEGEL Christine, Strukturen I und II, 1984-85. Christine Schlegel (1950, Germany) studied painting in Dresden and has been creating cross-genre, provocative (physical) performances, installations and screenings since 1977. She has been collaborating...
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The Garbage Girl (manteniendo el mundo del arte) @ Estibaliz SÁDABA, 2007
- SÁDABA Estíbaliz, The Garbage Girl (manteniendo el mundo del arte), 2007. Estíbaliz Sádaba (1963, Spain) moves within a framework of cultural and activist artistic practice, connecting art and feminism. Her videos are direct and provocative actions,...
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Unter weissen Tüchern @ Cornelia Schleime. 1983
- SCHLEIME Cornelia, Unter weissen Tüchern, 1983. Cornelia Schleime (1953, Germany) was born in East Berlin, studied makeup design and painting in Dresden and emigrated to West Berlin in 1984. In the 1970s, she created her first installations and performances,...
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Place @ Micha Ullman. 1975
- ULLMAN Micha, Place 1975. vidéo. 20 minutes, sound, b/w. Micha Ullman’s Place (1975) depicts a process of sculpting in sand – a material that symbolizes the local earth. Ullman transformed the pile of sand by forming it into various landscapes and textual...
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Maraschino Cherries @ Vlasta Žanic. 2002
- ŽANIC Vlasta, Maraschino Cherries, 2002. Performance Zadar live, Zadar, 2002. Photo: Stipe Surać. In her performance, Vlasta Žanic questions stereotypical female role of being wife and mother, the responsible within the family for providing emotional...
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Ten Embarrassed Men @ Annika Ström. 2010
- STRÖM Annika, Ten Embarrassed Men, 2010. The performances by Swedish artist Annika Ström (1964, Sweden, UK) deal with, among other things – especially with the fact that they are under-represented in public collections. The artist usually does not take...
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Waiting @ Faith Wilding. 2009 (reprise de 1972)
- WILDING Faith, Waiting-With, 2009, reprise de la performance de 1972. photo : Jan Stradtmann. Wait-With is Faith Witlding’s reinterpretation of her iconic performance Waiting from the 1970s. She rewrote the origianl performance in 2007 and had since...
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Waiting @ Faith Wilding. 1972
- WILDING Faith, Waiting, 1972 (re-enact 2007-2009). Faith Wilding emigrated from Paraguay to the USA in 1961 (born in 1943). She studied and worked with Judy Chicago and was part of the Feminist Art Program and Womanhouse in Los Angeles in the early...
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La Femme sans tête @ Nil Yalter. 1974 (vidéo)
- YALTER Nil, La Femme Sans Tête, 1974. Nil Yalter is a video artist, born in 1938 in Cairo and raised in Istanbul. She lives in Paris since 1965. In the 1970s, she became concerned with the situation of women and immigration in different countries, depicting...
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Touch Cinema @ Valie Export Society (VES). 2000
- VALIE EXPORT SOCIETY (VES), Touch Cinema, 2000. Valie Export Society (Kadi Estland, Mari Laanemets, Killu Sukmit) was founded in 1999 an attempt to fill gap in feminist art in Estonia. In their remakes of performances by VALIE EXPORT, Yoko Ono and Ann-Sofi...
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Merkabah @ Elena Kovylina. 2011
- KOVYLINA Elena, Merkabah, 17-09-2011. Performance festival 9 Days, Parallel program of the Fourth Moscow Biennale, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscou. During her nine-day performance, the artist Elena Kovylina intends to test some of the practical techniques...
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Bohemian Barbie @ Vernita Nemec E. AKA n'Cognita. 2004-2008
- NEMEC Vernita, Bohemian Barbie. E. AKA n’Cognita, 2004-2008. ‘‘I have been creating ‘‘Barbie’’ performances for nearly the past decade, in an effort to deal with being an aging woman. Various incarnations have been born but the primary works have been...
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Dona arbre @ Fina Millares. 1973
- MIRALLES Fina, Dona-Arbre. Sèrie Translacions, 1973. Fina Miralles (1950 Spain) studied in Barcelona from 1968 to 1972. Today, she lives and works in Cadaques. She explores the relationships between humans, nature and objects, and analyzes the transformation...
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Red Pomegranates @ Elena Kovylina. 2011
- KOVYLINA Elena, Red Pomegranates, 11-01-2011. Exhibition statement: I advocate feminism-Kultur Kontakt Autria Wien. As it happens with every notion scandalized in the mass media, feminism was torn to vulgar pieces, cliché and manifests instead of being...
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River Mud @ Teresa Murak. 1989
- MURAK Teresa, River Mud, 1989. Muzeum Ziemi Chelmskiej. Video: Wojciech Majewski. Together with Natalia LL and Ewa Partum, Teresa Murak (1949, Poland) was one of the leading performance and body artists in Poland in 1970s. At the beginnin of the 1970s,...
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Lady's Smock @ Teresa Murak. 1975
- MURAK Teresa, Ladie’s Smock, 1975. Lublin Together with Natalia LL and Ewa Partum, Teresa Murak (1949, Poland) was one of the leading performance and body artists in Poland in 1970s. At the beginnin of the 1970s, Teresa Murak discovered the natural...
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Emmascarats @ Fina Miralles. 1976
- MIRALLES Fina, Emmascarats, 1976. As a member of the school of conceptual Catalan art from the 1970s, Fina Miralles (1950, Spain) early works were strongly influenced by Arte Povera, land art and an incipient environmentalist-feminist thought. The art-life...