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Performance @ Marleny Pineda Montoya. 2006
- MONTOYA Marleny Pineda, Performance, 2006. Marleny Montoya propose aux gens d’écrire ce qu’ils veulent sur son corps peint en blanc et immobile, au fond la photo du rayon de beauté d’un supermarché. Le public peut écrire ses désirs, ses sentiments sur...
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Portrait Sketch @ Oreet Ashery. 2006
- ASHERY Oreet, Portrait Sketch. 2006. ‘Portrait Sketch’, street intervention, Delhi, 2006. In 2006, Whilst in Delhi, Ashery visited the craft market Dilli Haat dressed as a Jewish man. She had her portrait drawn by a portrait sketch artist. Later on...
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Butt Smack Bongo @ Chicks On Speed (COS). 2007
- CHICKS ON SPEED (COS), Butt Smack Bongo, 2007. Chicks On Speed (COS since 1997, Germany) were founded by Melissa Logan (USA) and Alex Murray-Leslie (Australia) in Munich as a multi-disciplinary art project.They were primarily active as a band until...
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Nature @ Sissi. 2006
- SISSI, Nature, 2006. The installation was presented during my solo show at Chelsea Art Museum in New York. It was a large bush created with over 3000 sponges. This work felt as if nature found in me an ideal place to cling to. During the opening, I...
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Micro-Event No. 13 @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2009
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-événement n°9/Six personnages de femmes, 2009. La Force de l’art 02, Les Virtuels, invité par Synesthésie, Grand Palais, Paris, 2009. Ce micro-événement se crée sur les notions de déplacement du corps et de communication interpersonnelles,...
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Domestic Sanitation @ Helen Chadwick. 1976
- CHADWICK Helen, Domestic Sanitation, 1976. The human body was a central theme for this provocative artist.. In her earlier works, Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) created female body parts out of soft materials. In the seventies she developped performances...
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Illusion @ He Chengyao. 2002
- HE Chengyao, Illusion, 2002. ‘‘Illusion’’ is a performance art piece I did in February 2002 at the Beijing Art Archives and Warehouse. The work was executed in this fashion: I invited a male audience member at the site to hold a mirror and use it to...
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Mouth to Mouth @ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. 1975
- CHA Theresa Hak Kyung, Mouth to Mouth, 2005. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s family immigrated to the US in 1962, where she studied literature and art. She later moved to Paris, where she studied film and film theory with Christian Metz, Raymond Bellour and...
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Micro-Event No. 29 @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2005
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-Event No. 29/When I Fall in Love, ‘‘Des féminités en question’’, Mains d’oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, France, 2005. Considering that the more marriages made, the easier is to demistify this imposed ritual, I continued to get married,...
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No title. Too many questions 1 & 2 @ Malin Arnell. 2008
- ARNELL Malin, No Title. Too Many Questions #2 & #3, 2008. Malin Arnell’s performances No Title. Too Many Questions explore how specific forms of social behaviour are dependent on the different locations of the performance. The performance pieces, which...
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Marcus Fisher's Wake @ Oreet Ashery. 2000
- ASHERY Oreet, Marcus Fisher’s Wake, 2000. Oreet Ashery (1966, Israël, UK) lives and works in London. Her work operates on the intersections between Jewishness, race, gender and the Arab and Muslin world. During 2006 her on-going project ‘Welcome Home’...
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Objet de femmes @ Augusta Atla. 2011
- ATLA Augusta, Objets de femmes, 2011. A table is covered with a white sheet evidently prepared for a celebration. Around the table several women dressed in black begin to appear. Their black garments starkly contrast with the white of the embroidered...
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Autobiography @ Ebtisam Abdulaziz. 2007
- ABDULAZIZ Ebtisam, Autobiography, 2007. Ebtisam Abdulaziz was born in the emirate Sharjah, where she still lives and works today. She initially earned a degree in mathematics before devoting herself exclusively to painting for a period of time. She...
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Flag @ Theresa Byrnes. 2002
- BYRNES Theresa, Flag, New York, 2002. Blind Patriotism resulting in blood for oil. Behind me Father Morales talks of giving last rights at ground zero. I lay on a raw canvas wearing a long red dress. Cover my face and eyes with white paint. I pour on...
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Les héros de la pensée @ Massimo Furlan. 2012
- FURLAN Massimo, Les Héros de la pensée. Cette performance réunit sept penseurs (philosophes, historiens, anthropologues) tenus de débattre, sur le principe de l’abécédaire, de 26 thèmes différents pendant 26 heures d’affilée. Chaque heure se déroule...
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The Work Behind The Image @ Richard Alpert. 1976
- ALPERT Richard, The Work Behind The Image, Benicia Art Center, Benicia, Ca., 1976. This piece was performed in a stairwell between the first and second floors of a building. The piece was visible from only two separate viewpoints. The first view was...
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Sensorium by Caroline A. Jones. The MIT Press. 2006
Sensorium. Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art, Edited by Caroline A. Jones, The MIT Press. 2006. The relationship between the body and electronic technology extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual...
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Being Watched. Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by C. Lambert-Beatty. MIT Press. 2008
Being Watched. Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s by Carrie Lambert-Beatty. The MIT Press. 2008. In her dance and performanc of the 1960s, Yvonne rainer famously transformed the performing body -stripped it of special techniques and star status, trade its costumes...
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Acting with Technology by V. Kaptelinin & B. Nardi. MIT Press. 2006
Acting with Technology , Victor Kaptelinin & Bonnie A. Nardi. The MIT Press. 2006. Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. Acting with Technology makes...
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Orbital Obsessions @ Steina Vasulka. 1975-77
ORBITAL OBSESSIONS, 1975-1977 Cette bande fait partie d'un projet de longue haleine auquel Steina s'est attelée dès le milieu des anées 70, qu'elle appelle Machine Vision ; il s'agit de trouver les moyens de produire des machines capables d'avoir une...
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Flux @ Steina Vasulka. 1977
FLUX,1977 Le paysage occupe une place toute particulière dans le travail de Steina Vasulka; dès le milieu des années 70, toutes ses réflexions sur l'espace comme donnée abstraite seront ancrées dans l'utilisation toujours plus fréquente de paysages. L'espace...
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Olafur Eliasson. Serpentine Gallery. 2007
Le pavillon 2007 de la Galerie Serpentine a été créé par l'artiste Olafur Eliasson et l'architecte Kjetil Thorsen. Cette structure supporte un dôme, complété par une rampe spiralée qui fait deux tours complets. Olafur Eliasson et Kjetil Thorsen ont déjà...
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Björk et Matthew Barney
Performance Paradigm 1 (March 2005) extrait E-Interview Philip Auslander talks to Performance Paradigm Performance Paradigm: One of the most provocative and useful arguments you raise in your book Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Society (London:...
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What is Installation ? ed. A. Geczy & B. Gennochio. Power. 2001
Performance Paradigm 1 (March 2005) (Book Review) What is Installation? ed. A. Geczy and B. Gennochio (Sydney: Power Publications, 2001) To ‘install’ is essentially to place an object or objects within a given space. ‘Place-ing’ is therefore fundamental:...
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Viennese Actionism by Pilar Parcerisas. Éditions Altar. 2008
To understand the full extend of this collective gesture of protest against history carried out in a brief space of time by Viennese artists in Vienna, it is essential to forget that they were born out of horror of national-socialism. As a product of...