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Lavadero Publico @ Corpus Deleicti. 2009
- CORPUS DELEICTI, Lavadero Publico, 2009. Corpus Deleicti is a group of the Catalan women artists Patricia Fuentes, Desire Rodrigo and Judit Vidiella. All three studied in Barcelona: Fuentes theatre and dance, Rodrigo sociology, and Vidiella art and...
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Pokusaj poistovjecenja (Lady Godiva) @ Vlasta Delimar. 2001
- DELIMAR Vlasta, Pokusaj poistovjecenja, 2001. Vlasta Delimar received a degree in graphic design from the University of Applied Arts in Zagreb in 1977. At the time, she was collaborating with the artist Zeljko Jerman, who was associated with the avant-garde...
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Triumph of Fragility @ Factory of Found Clothes. 2002
- FACTORY OF FOUND CLOTHES. PERSHINA Natalia/EGOROVA Olga, Triumph of Fragility (Part Two of Trilogy), 2002. In 1995, Gluklya (Natalia Pershina, 1969, Russia) and Tsaplya (Olga Egorova, 1968, Russia) founded the artist duo Factory of Found Clothes in...
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Performance Julie M. Gallery @ Adina Bar-On. 1976
- BAR-ON Adina, Performance Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv, 1976. b/w photo. The performances of Adina Bar-On, a performance artist whot is still active today, were based in the 1970s on emotions communicated through movement, facial expression and vocal...
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Mitchell's Death @ Linda Montano. 1977
- MONTANO Linda, Mitchell’s Death, 1978. Originally trained as a sculptor, Linda Montani (1942, USA) began using video in the 1970s. Attempting to obliterate the disctinction between art and life, Montano’s artwork is starkly autobiographical and often...
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Milk @ Efrat Natan. 1974
- NATAN Efrat, Milk (Performance for Staircases), 1974, b/w photo, from Musag, monthly magazine for Art and culture, vol. 3, June 1975, p. 81. In her work Milk (1974), Efrat Natan performs a series of simple and precise actions, in the context of which...
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Glue and Honey @ Michal Na'aman. 1975
- NA’AMAN Michal, Glue and Honey, 1975, 8 mm film, silent, color, Haifa Museum of Art Collection. In Michal Na’aman’s work Glue and Honey (1975), two substances, which form two round puddles on the table, are examined in terms of their relation to the...
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Sztuka Konsumpcyjna (postconsumer Art) @ Natalia LL. 1975
- NATALIA LL, Sztuka Konsumpcyjna (postconsumer Art), 1975 (photo: Zofia Wallgora). Natalia LL (1937, Poland) was heavily influenced by Polish Conceptual art and was part of the avant-garde scene in Poland in the 1970s. In 1970, she co-founded the group...
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Sweating Blood @ Ana Mendieta. 1973
- MENDIETA Ana, Sweating Blood, 1973. When she was 13, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985, Cuba, USA) parents sent her and her sister from Cuba to live in the US. This experience of living in exile was formative for Mendieta’s artistic work. She began working less...
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Alma Silueta en Fuego @ Ana Mendieta. 1975
- MENDIETA Ana, Alma Silueta en Fuego, 1975. When she was 13, Ana Mendieta (1948-1985, Cuba, USA) parents sent her and her sister from Cuba to live in the US. This experience of living in exile was formative for Mendieta’s artistic work. She began working...
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Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me @ Joseph Beuys. 1974. Block Galery. NYC
- BEUYS Joseph, Coyote : I Like America and America Likes Me , 1974. Block Galery. NYC. video 37:07 min., sound, b/w, René Block Collection. In the course of the performance Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), Joseph Beuys spent three...
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Barbed Hula @ Sigalit Landau. 2001
- LANDAU Sigalit, Barbed Hula, 2001. Vidéo. Plage de Tel Aviv. Born in 1969 in Jerusalem, Sigalit Landau studied at the Bezabel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem (when she earned a BFA in 1993) She took part in an exchange programme at Cooper Union...
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My Honey @ MaraM. 2007
- MARAM, My Honey, 2007. MaraM (1979) was born in Naples, Italy, where she also studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli. She later moved to Venice where she attended courses with Joseph Kosuth and Tania Bruguera at the Universita IUAV di Venezia....
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Olimpia @ Katarzyna Kozira. 1996
- KOZYRA Katarzyna, Olimpia, 1996. After studying at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Katarzyna Kozyra (1963, Poland, Italy, Germany) decided she no longer wanted to make sculptures and began working with photography, video, performances and installations...
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Cheerleaderka @ Katarzyna Kozyra. 2006
- KOZYRA Katarzyna, Cheerleaderka, 2006. After studying at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Katarzyna Kozyra (1963, Poland, Italy, Germany) decided she no longer wanted to maje sculptures and began working with photography, video, performances and installations...
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I Must Be @ Verica Kovasceka. 2003
- KOVACEVSKA Verica, I Must Be, 2003 (video) Verica Kovacevska was born in 1982 in Skopje and studied in UK. She is known for live performances in which she directly integrates the audience and surroundings. In ‘‘Walking Project’’ (since 2006), she candily...
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Poemim @ Katalin Ladik. 1980
- LADIK Katalin, Poemim (Poemask), 1980. Katalin Ladik (1942, Serbia) performs her artistic work on the radio, in the theatre and, finally, in the world of visual art. A writer of poems, she transfers poetic language to other filds of expression, suc...
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Waltz @ Elena Kovylina. 2001
- KOVYLINA Elena, Waltz, 2001. Elena Kovylina (1971, Russia) was part of the radical Moscow Actionism in the 1990s, but she developped her own method of staging scenarios with extreme precision. She completed most of her studies in Zurich and Moscow in...
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The Screaming Hole @ Katalin Ladik. 1979 (1978 et 1996)
- LADIK Katalin, The Screaming Hole, Tribina mladlh, Novi Sad, 1979 (also 1978 and 1996). Katalin Ladik (1942, Serbia) performs her artistic work on the radio, in the theatre and, finally, in the world of visual art. A writer of poems, she transfers poetic...
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Comforter @ Alice Lang. 2009
- LANG Alice, Comforter, 2009. Comforter is made from a second hand bed spread that has been cut, sewn, and stuffed using a technique derived from cutwork embroidery. The final sculpture was used as a performative object in my solo exhibition ‘‘Remains’’...
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Dante Hotel @ Lynn Hershman & Eleanor Coppola. 1973-74
- HERSHMAN Lynn & COPPOLA Eleanor, Dante Hotel, San Francisco, 1973. — Lynn Hershman’s work comprises photography, video, film and installation. She also is a pioneer of computer art. She studied art with a major in art criticism at San Francisco State...
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Light Dissolves @ Nan Hoover. 1975
- HOOVER Nan, Light Dissolves, 1975. Nan Hoover (1931-2008, USA, Germany) studied in Washington , DC, before she moved to Amsterdam in 1969 and became a Dutch citizen. She taught video and film at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1987 to 1997. In 2007,...
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Commercials for ''forming a Sculpture in Manhattan'' @ Lynn Hershman. 1974
- HERSHMAN Lynn, Commercials for ‘‘Forming a Sculpture Drama in Manhattan’’, 1974. In five TV commercials, men and women of different racial backgrounds explain that they are Lynn Hershman. The commercials were advertisements for Hershman’s site-specific...
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The Shooting Star 1 @ Nieves Correa. 2006
- CORREA Nieves, The Shooting Star 1, 2006. With her own body as a measure and using black adhesive tape, the artist constructs a room for target practice with six targets in an interior space. Once the scene is prepared, she covers her eyes and ‘shoots’...
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Hyperbulie @ Valie Export. 1973
- EXPORT Valie, Hyperbulie, 1973. — Valie Export (1940, Austria) is one of Austria’s most prominent artists since the late 1960s and was one of the most important pioneers of feminist art in the 1960s and 70s. She explores radical questions about the...