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Tap & Touch Cinema @ valie export. 1968
- EXPORT Valie, Tapp und Task Kino (Touch Cinema), 1968. — 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...
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Moody and the Mentruators @ Anne Bean. 1971-74
- BEAN Anne, Moody and the Menstruators, 1971-1974. In 1968, Anne Bean (1950, Zambia, UK) arrived in Great Britain to study art. Since then, she has developed a body of works that cannot be sufficiently described using medial categories. Sound and music...
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Dirty Old Women @ Ines Doujak. 2005
- DOUJAK Ines, Dirty Old Women, 2005. Salzburger Kunstverein. (photo: Rainer Iglar & Herman Seidl) In her photography, collages, installations and performances, Ines Doujak (1959, Austria) explores social constructions, such as stereotypes, gender roles,...
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Sleepwalker @ Yingmei Duan. 2002
- DUAN Yingmei, Sleepwalker, 2002. Yingmei Duan (1969, China, Germany) was a member of the East Village artist’s colony in Beijing and took part in their performance ‘‘To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain’’ in 1995, which achieved international fame....
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Street Works @ Colette. 1971-1979
- COLETTE, Street Works, 1971-1979. Colette has been living in New York since the 1970s. She is an artist who embodies the fusion of art and life. She plays with roles and changes identities in radical ways in order to transform art into a space for living...
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Tearing Off A Piece @ Anat Ben-David & Adrienne Altenhaus. 2009
- BEN-DAVID Anat & ALTENHAUS Adrienne, Tearing Off A Piece, 2009. Anat Ben-David (1970, Israel, UK) was one of Israel’s few video pioneers and has been living in London as a video and performance artist since 1999. She continues to cooperate with the...
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Synchromatic Baseball @ Howard Fried. 1971
Performed at night with friends on the roof of Fried’s studio at 16 Rose St. Game is interrupted when Fried falls through the skylight. Alec Lambie. « 16 Rose Street », Artweek, v. 3, January 1, 1972, p. 1. Photos and text on the history of 16 Rose Street,...
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Allmydirtyblueclothes @ Howard Fried. 1969-70
Catalogue of an exhibition, June 16-July 11, 1970. Text is divided into « accumulation », « establishment », and « disestablisment » ». Excerpt from « establishment » : « Formerly, my blue clothing and the symbols that best identify them to me were in...
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40 Winks (The Message) @ Howard Fried. 1971
- FRIED Howard, 40 Winks (The Message). University Art Museum, Berkeley, Ca., 1971 (first part). — Howard Fried, « Synchromatic Baseball, » Arts Magazine, v.47, April 1973, pp.60-63. In this lengthy article, Fried describes his works, Synchromatic Baseball...
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Fuck You Purdue @ Howard Fried. 1971
The work refers to Fried’s brother, Billy, and his Marine Corps drill instructors, Purdue and Ward. « Rumbles : Howard Fried », Avalanche, no. 4, Spring 1972, p. 4. Brief description of two of Fried’s videotapes, Fuck You Perdue, a 25 mins. Tape shown...
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Mirror Check @ Joan Jonas. 1970.
In her performance piece Mirror Check (1970), Jonas stood nude with a small, round mirror and examined details of her body looking into the entire time, seeing ‘a succession of places unfolding in time’, while the audience watched from a distance of thirty...
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L'Art doit être beau. L'artiste doit être beau @ M. Abramovic. 1975
ART MUST BE BEAUTIFUL, ARTIST MUST BE BEAUTIFUL (14' 55'') "Je me brosse les cheveux avec une brosse en métal dans la main droite et un peigne dans la main gauche, simultanément, en répétant à haute voix : L'art doit être beau L'artiste doit être beau...
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Velocity Piece #2 @ Barry Le Va. 1970
« One of Le Va’s more recent works was his contribution to ‘projections : Anti-Materialism’ at La Jolla Museum of Art, which consisted of the artist running at top speed along a fifty-foot room and throwing his body into the far wall as hard and as long...
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rEVOLUTION @ Paul Kos. 1971
Kos discharged 375 rounds of Winchester rifle ammunition into a plywood target suspended from a metal scale effect a « ninety minute invisible weight exchange ». Documented from the ground and the air. — « Rumbles : Exhibitions, Paul Kos », Avalanche,...
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Isolation Unit @ Terry Fox & Joseph Beuys. 1970
Fox made an action with sounds and iron pipes ; Beuys made an action that « was a kind of dream about a dead mouse he had, like a funeral. » A record was produced from this event. (Cf. Fox Terry. « Joseph Beuys and Terry Fox : Action/Fotodokumentation...
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The King @ Eleanor Antin. 1972
Writes Antin : « Applying hair to her face, the artist moves throught a variety bearded faces seeking the identity most appropriate to her facial structure ans satisfying to her aspirations. » Antin transforms herself into a man and adopts one of recurring...
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The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art @ Tom Marioni. 1970
- MARIONI Tom (as Allan Fish). The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art, Oakland Museum of Art, 1970. « From 1969 on I have made performances. I was interested in the act that took place because there was no static object as a...
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Al's Grand Hotel @ Allen Ruppersberg. 1971
— Allen Ruppersberg, Al’s Grand Hotel. Hollywood : Self-published, 1971. 12 page artist catalogue of Ruppersberg’s hotel-show at Al’s Grand Hotel, 7175 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California, May 7-June 12 1971. Includes photo documentation of rooms in the...
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Unicorn (Einhorn) @ Rebecca Horn. 1970-72
Unicorn is one of Horn’s best known performances pieces. I twas one of a series of performances concerned with the cultural aspects of the numerous body extensions thematized throughout her career collectively presented in the films Performances I, 1972,...
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Levitation @ Terry Fox. Richmond Art Center. 1970
- FOX Terry, Levitation, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, Ca., 1970. Fox attempts to levitate while lying upon ½ tons of earth in the middle of a circle holding four clear polyethylene tubes filled with blood, urine, milk, and water. Afterwords there was...
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Cornucopia-Seance for Two Breasts @ Rebecca Horn. 1970
A poetical construction that makes one think of a fabulous nurse machine, of a creative form lending the nourishing function of the female body a meaning that also comprehends the self-referentialism of the adult. From this perspective, the idea of self-nourishment...
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33 Foot-Notes By Oz Moses @ Trans-parent Teacher's Ink, Paul Cotton. 1974
- TRANS-PARENT TEACHER’S INK. PAUL COTTON. MEDIUM, 33 Footnotes by Osmosis, 1974. Paul Cotton substantiating the self-reflexive form as book. — 33 Foot-Notes, By Oz Moses, University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1974. « In a Spatial Projection at the Books by...
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Yield @ Terry Fox. 1973
- FOX Terry, Yield, University Art Museum, Berkeley, September 4–October 21, 1973. « I am sending 8 photographs from my latest work, at the University Art Museum, Berkeley. This was a two-month exhibition (September 4-October 21) that involved two rooms,...
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Defoliation Piece @ Terry Fox. 1970
- FOX Terry, Defoliation Piece, University Art Gallery, Berkeley, Ca., 1970. Fox with flame thrower burns rare flowers before an unsuspecting audience. « This was my first political work. I wanted to destroy the flowers in a very calculating way. By burning...
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Sylph @ Richard Alpert. 1976
- ALPERT Richard, Sylph, La Mamelle Arts Center, San Francisco, November 1976. Description: « This piece took place in a darkened gallery space. Around two of the corners that protrude into the space there were two green tape lights that circumscribed...