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The Blindness Films @ Haim Maor. 1978
- MAOR Haim, Blind in Blue, 1978. The motif of blindness is central to the performance Blind in Blue (1978), which took place in a kibbutz dining room. Maor appears next to a lit television set with his entire body painting blue, playing a guitar and...
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Relacions. relacions del cos amb elements naturals: cobriment del cos amb palla @ Fina Miralles. 1975
- MIRALLES Fina, Relacions. relacions del cos amb elements naturals: cobriment del cos amb palla , 1975. Fina Miralles (1950 Spain) studied in Barcelona from 1968 to 1972. Today, she lives and works in Cadaques. Fina Miralles explores the relationships...
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Clockshower @ Gordon Matta-Clark. 1973
- MATTA-CLARK Gordon, Clockshower, 1973. (from Program Five 1972-1976), 60:50 minutes, sound, b/w and colour. In Gordon Matta-Clark’s work Clockshower (1973), the viewer discovers that a series of everyday activities – shaving, brushing teeth, showering...
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Black & White Tapes @ Paul McCarthy. 1970-1975
- McCARTHY Paul, Black and White Tapes, 1970-75, video, 32:50 minutes, sound, b/w. This group of works by Paul MacCarthy, Black and White Tapes (1970-1975), contains 13 studio performances in which the body’s expressive presence is suffused with an anarchist...
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Anonimo 4 @ Maria Evelia Marmolejo. 1982
- MARMOLEJO Maria Evelia, Anónimo 4, 1982. According to the Colombian scholar Maria Iovino, in 1981, Maria Evelia Marmolejo (1958, Colombia) created the first feminist performance art piece in Colombia ‘‘11 de Marzo’’ (March 11th), an action with menstrual...
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Zoo-Homo Sapiens @ Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin. 1977
- GERLOVINA Rimma & GERLOVIN Valeriy, Zoo-Homo Sapiens, 17 février 1977, Moscou. ‘‘Presented at the Eastern European Biennal in Venice, the performance touches upon the primeval state of human nature. We were seated naked in a cage labelled ‘Homo sapiens,...
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Exposure @ Gideon Gechtman. 1974
- GECHTMAN Gideon, Exposure, 1974, video 3:43 minutes, sound, b/w. Born in Alexandria, lives and works in Rishon LeZion. Gideon Gechtman’s work Exposure (1974) was created as a video performance. Gechtman documented himself thoroughly shaving his naked...
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Passagens n.1 @ Anna Bella Geiger. 1974
- GEIGER Anna Bella, Passagens n.1, 1974. Anna Bella Geiger (1933, Brazil) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Her influential oeuvre is characterized by the use of language and different media, ranging from painting, drawing, photography, photoengraving...
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Screaming Mountain @ High Heel Sisters. 2007
- HIGH HEEL SISTERS, Screaming Mountain, 2007. The High Heel Sisters (2002-2007 Scandinavia) were an artists’ collective comprised of Malin Arnell, Line Karlström, Anna Linder and Karianne Stensland, and existed from 2002 to 2007. Its starting point was,...
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The Fool + The Magician: The Beginning Of A Performative Journey In Tarot And Life @ Trine Mee Sook Gleerup. 2012
- GLEERUP Trine Mee Sook, The Fool + The Magician: The Beginning Of A Performative Journey In Tarot And Life , 2012. Trine Mee Sook Gleerup (1978, South Korea) is a visual artist working within installation, text and performance. Deeply invested in historical,...
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Familiar @ Jumana Manna. 2007
- MANNA Jumana, Familiar, 2007. Jumana Manna (1987, USA) was born in the US, but grew up in Jerusalem and studied at the Bezabel Academy of Arts and Design and the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. Her work, such as Familiar, reflect on human identity...
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Performance/Audience/Mirror @ Dan Graham. 1975
- GRAHAM Dan, Performance/Audience/Mirror, 1975. (video) 22:52 minutes, sound, b/w. In the filmed performance Performer/Audience/Mirror, Dan Graham was interested in examining the relationship between the performing artist and the audience. By means of...
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Invisible Suits @ Daniela Kosova. 2004-2005
- KOSOVA Daniela, Invisible Suits, 2004-2005. Invisible Suits are interactive suits made from blue screen fabric (material used for work with video blue screen technique), where the blue color could be displaced by images or video footage. The intended...
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Costumes @ Rimma Gerlovina & Valeriy Gerlovin. 1977
- GERLOVINA Rimma & GERLOVIN Valeriy, Costumes, 1977. Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin (1951/1945, Russia, USA) were founding members of the underground Conceptual movement in Soviet Russia. Since coming to America in 1980, they have had many personal...
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Una cosa es una cosa @ Maria Teresa Hincapié. 1990
- HINCAPIÉ Maria Teresa, Una Cosa es una cosa, 1990. In Una cosa es una cosa (A Thing is a thing), Hincapié made and unmade series of labyrinth-like concentric squares on a gallery floor using dozens of her own domestic objects (kitchen ustensils, cleaning...
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Untitled @ Yocheved Weinfeld. 1976
- WEINFELD Yocheved, Untitled, 1976. Photo: Micha Bar-Am, b/w photo of a performance, Dawel Gallery, Jerusalem. Yocheved Weinfeld’s actions in the performance Untitled (1976), were based on the ritual purification ceremony dictated to brides by Jewish...
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Vitrina @ Maria Teresa Hincapié. 1990
- HINCAPIÉ Maria Teresa, Vitrina (The Shop Window), 1990. Maria Teresa Hincapié (1956-2008, Colombia) started her artistic career in the theatre as an actor. During the mide-1980s she shifted her attention to performance art and started investigating...
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Hands Scraping @ Richard Serra. 1968
- SERRA Richard, Hands Scraping, 1968, 16 mm film, 4:30 minutes, Silent, b/w. In Richard Serra’s work Hands Scraping (1968), the hands of Serra and of the musician Philip Glass are seen gathering metal scraps into a pile located outside the frame. This...
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Roof @ Tamar Getter. 1974-75
- GETTER Tamar, Roof, 1974-75. In Tamar Getter’s work Roof (1974-1975), a figure (Efrat Natan) was filmed moving along the edge of a roof while wearing a long pointed hat, which lends her the appearance of a clownish midget charting its territory. The...
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Lysistrata Numbah @ Spiderwoman Theater. 1977
- SPIDERWOMAN THEATER, The Spiderwoman Theater Group from New York, 1977. The Spider Woman Theater Company was founded in 1975 by sisters Lisa Mayo, Gloria Miguel and Muriel Migue as a group, which mostly worked with performers from a Native American...
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The Singing Sculpture @ Gilbert & George. 1992
- GILBERT & GEORGE, The Singing Sculpture, 1992. Video, 20 minutes, sound, color. In the performance The Singing Sculpture (1992), reconstruct a performance originally enacted in 1969, in the course of which they stood on a table in black woolen suits...
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Kind als Pinsel @ (e.) Twin Gabriel. 2007
- (e.) TWIN GABRIEL, GABRIEL Else/WREDE Ulf, Kind als Pinsel (Kooperatorka), 2007. Else Gabriel (1962, Germany) studied at the Dresden Art Academy in the mid-1980s. There she became a member of the group Autoperforationsartisten, which has known for its...
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Utopian Unemployment Union @ Factory of Found Clothes. 2009
- FACTORY OF FOUND CLOTHES. PERSHINA Natalia/EGOROVA Olga, Utopian Unemployment Union, 2009. In 1995, Gluklya (Natalia Pershina, 1969, Russia) and Tsaplya (Olga Egorova, 1968, Russia) founded the artist duo Factory of Found Clothes in St.Petersburg. The...
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Le chien ne va plus @ Cornelia Sollfrank. 2006
- SOLLFRANK Cornelia, Le Chien ne va plus, 2006. Cornelia Sollfrank (1960, Germany), who became kown as a pioneer of Internet art, studied at the Munich Academy of Fine arts and the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Since the mid-1990s, Sollfrank has been...
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Solo n°1 @ Simone Forti. 1974
- FORTI Simone, Grizzlies, Solo No.1, 63 Bluxome St., San Francisco, Ca. 1974. Videotapes Performance presented for the series, South of the Slot. Simone Forti (1935, Italy, USA) came of age in the 1950s and 1960s and developed out of two main influences:...