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International Summer School @ La Pocha Nostra. 2008. Evora. Portugal
- LA POCHA NOSTRA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL, Convento do Carmo, Évora, Portugal, August 2008. Part of Escrita na Paisagem. Performance and Land Arts Festival (5th Edition). 12 day intensive workshops in Évora, a gorgeous ‘museum-city’ whose roots go...
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Infr'action @ Esther Ferrer. 2006. Sète. festival d'art performance + entretien Esther Ferrer avec S. Babin. revue Esse. Canada
(Esther FERRER- entretien avec Sylvette Babin : [L’artiste performeure espagnole Esther Ferrer, dont nous avons pu remarquer la présence à quelques reprises au Lieu à Québec, a récemment été invitée aux ateliers Convertibles de Juliette. Elle y a animé...
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From the Underdog File @ valie export. 1969
- EXPORT Valie, From the Underdog File, 1969. Photo. Josef Tandl. With a keen for art actions guaranted to capture public attention, Valie Export playfully and provocatively radicalizes the relationship between the sexes by taking to an extreme women’s...
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Pencame, Pencame Mucho @ Dani D'Emilia & Brittany Chavez. 2014. Montréal. Canada
- D’EMILIA Dani & CHAVEZ Brittany, Pencame, Pencame Mucho, 2014, Montréal. A performance by Dani D’Emilia & Brittany Chavez. IX Encuentro-Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Manifest: Choregraphing Social Movements in the Americas. Transnocheo...
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Water Light-Water Needle @ Carolee Schneemann. 1966
- SCHNEEMANN Carolee, Water Light-Water Needle, 1966 (happening). With eight performers climbing on suspende dropes, it was « conceived as an aerial work for ropes rigged across the canal at San Marco… finally realized at Saint Mark’s Church in the Bowery...
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Fresh Blood : A Dream Morphology @ Carolee Schneemann. 1981
- SCHNEEMANN Carolee, Fresh Blood : A Dream Morphology. Dual slide projection system with dissolve unit, pre-recorded and spoken text. Sound collage. Live relay vidéo feeds into four monitors. Red umbrella, red pajamas, watering can, door, raised table,...
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Le Piège @ Santiago Sierra. 2007. Santiago de Chili
- SIERRA Santiago, Le Piége, Matucana 100, Santiago du Chili, déc. 2007. Cette oeuvre a été réalisée de manière à ce que ces 13 personnalités, exclusivement puissent la contempler : Patricio Walker Prieto, Président du Congrès, José Antonion Viera-Gallo,...
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75th Birthday Party at Rene Block Gallery @ Lil Picard. 1976
- PICARD Lil, 75th Birthday Party at Rene Block Gallery , November 9, 1976. Gelatin silver photograh. Lil Picard with Hannah Wilke, Carolee Schneemann and Geoff Hendricks, ‘‘Art is a Party, The New Party is Art’’, Lil’s 75th Birthday Party at Rene Block...
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Oblique Composition @ Paulina Olowska & Lucy McKenzie. 2003
- OLOWSKA Paulina & McKENZIE Lucy, Oblique Composition, 2003. Paulina Olowska (1976, Poland) lives and works in Raba, Poland. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland. Lucy McKenzie (1977,...
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Pozamiatac po wlokniarkach @ Julita Wojcik. 2003
- WOJCIK Julita, Pozamiatac po wlokniarkach , 2003. In her actions, Julita Wojcik (1971, Poland) is often seen wearing seemingly traditional clothing. Her attire reminds us of a farmer’s wife or farm labourer, but her coulourful head scarf and patterned...
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Mear en espacios publicos o privados @ Itziar Okariz. 2002
- OKARIZ Itziar, Mear en espacios publicos o privados, 2002. Itziar Okariz’s (1965, Spain) artistic work encompasses the fields of video, photography and installation. Her interests revolve around the construction of identity, subversion in the face of...
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Art Sucks @ Martha Wilson. 1972
- WILSON Martha, Art Sucks, 1972. Art Sucks is part three of Martha Wilson’s series of early video performances recorded in Halifax, Canada, which also includes Premiere, Routine Performance and Appearance as Value. These performances show the artist...
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Waltz at Miami @ Elena Kovylina. 2005
- KOVYLINA Elena, Waltz at Miami, 1-12-2005. Gallery Schroeder Romea/NYC in Miami Beach, Ice Palace Film Studios, NADA Art Fair, Miami Beach. Waltz was conceived in 2001 and has been performed in germany and subsequentlly in several European cities. The...
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Saemann meets Schneemann @ Andrea Saemann. 2005
- SAEMANN Andrea, Saemann Meets Schneemann, 2005. Andrea Saemann (1962, Switzerland) studied architecture in Zurich and art in hamburg under Marina Abramovic. She currently lives in Basel, where she is an artist and independant curator. She has coordinated,...
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Simultaneity in Simultaneity @ Marta Minujin. 1966
- MINUJIN Marta, Marta Minujin Art Works1966-69. Documentary Film by Maria Flores (1973). 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...
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Opening @ Sanja Ivekovic. 1976
- IVEKOVIC Sanja, Opening, 1976. Otvorenje, Gelrija suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, Galerie Tommaseo, Italie. Performed at the opening of the artist’s solo exhibition in the Zagreb of Contemporary Art (1976) and later at the Tommaseo Gallery in trieste...
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Untitled (Ocean Bird Washup) @ Ana Mendieta. 1974
- MENDIETA Ana, Untitled (Ocean Bird Washup), 1974. 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...
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Compromise @ Jillian Peña. 2005
- PEÑA Jillian, Compromise, 2005. Jillian Peña (USA) is a dance and video artist primarily concerned with the confusion and desire between self and other. Her work is in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer therory, pop media, and spirituality. She studied...
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Petjades @ Fina Miralles. 1976
- MIRALLES Fina, Petjades, 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...
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At Danse Et Faengsel @ Line Skywalker Karlström. 2010
- KALSTRÖM Line Skywalker, At Danse Et Faengsel, 2010. (video) Line Skywalker Karlström (1971, Sweden, Denmark) is a Swedish performance artist who works with a diverse range of materials dealing with the role of art in life, lesbian and gay identity...
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Free, White, And 21 @ Howardena Pindell, 1980.
- PINDELL Howardena, Free, White and 21, 1980. (vidéo) After studying painting in Boston and at Yale, Howardena Pindell mostly created abstract paintings and paper collages. Her radical formalism went against the expectations of the art world, where African-American...
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Touch Sanitation @ Mierle Laderman Ukeles. 1977-1980
- UKELES Mierle Laderman, Touch Sanitation, 1977-1980. ‘‘I’m not here to watch you, to study you, to analyse you, to judge you. I’m here to be with you: all the shifts, all the seasons, to walk out the whole City with you.’’ I face each worker, shake...
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Fascia @ Pia Lindman. 2006
- LINDMAN Pia, Fascia. Squashed Face, 2006. Still from ‘Fascia’ video, part 2, one of the ‘Nine Faces’: ‘Squashed Face.’ Facial expression held fixed for one hour with the help of the steel contraption, while video records the entire duration. The one-hour...
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Patente de Taco @ Maris Bustamante. 1979
- BUSTAMANTE Maris, Patente de Taco (Taco Patent), 1979. Since her first happening in 1971 Maris Bustamante (1949, Mexico) – a graduate from the Escuola Nacional de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda at Mexico City – began ‘‘a search for non-traditional...
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Right Left @ Oreet Ashery. 2007
- ASHERY Oreet, Right, Left, 2007. Right-Left was performed at the Freud Museum as part of the group show ‘PARANOIA’. Visitors to the opening were invited to have their left and right hands massaged simultaneously by a Jewish and Muslin look alike masseurs....