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La Carga @ Maria Adela Diaz. 2005. Californie. Performance-vidéo. Photo. Miguel Morales
- DIAZ Maria Adela, La Carga, 2005. Californie. Photo. Miguel Morales. (performance-vidéo) Video: single-channel digital video. Duration: 3min. Photos: Digital C-prints, 16’’x20’’. Californie. 2005. Photo: Miguel Morales. Carrying my daughter in my arms...
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Bliz-aard Ball Sale @ David Hammons. 1984
- HAMMONS David, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, 1984. Like much of David Hammons’ work, Bliz-aard Ball Sale starts with a minor gesture. On a snowy winter day, Hmmons stood in aheavy coat behind a blaket with an array of snowballs, arranged like a Minimalist grid...
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Soy una cerda/I am a pig @ Maria Adela Diaz. 2007. Californie. Photo. Evasofia Leon
- DIAZ Maria Adela, Soy una cerda/I am a pig, 2007, Californie, photo: Evasofia Leon. (vidéo-performance) Video: single-channel digital video. I put a skirt under an apricot tree to recollect all the ripe apricots that the tree could produce in a week....
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Ambrosia @ Maria Adela Diaz. 2000
- DIAZ Maria Adela, Ambrosia, 2000. Performance. Duration: 1.15 hours. Myself inside a clear box with 25.000 male flies. Historic Center Festival and the Commission of Urban Art, Guatemala, ‘‘Parque del calvario’’, 2000, photo: Andrea Aragon. This talks...
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Life of a Star @ Emilia Telese. 1998. Brighton. UK
- TELESE Emilia, Life of a Star, 1998. Part of the Live Art weekend at Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, UK. Study of celebrity as the result of morbid attention from the public. A 1930’s movie star surrounded by five bodyguards describing meticously her every...
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Rubens @ Zhang Huan. 2000
- HUAN Zhang, Rubens, 2001. Rubens’ masterpiece The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus absolutely stunned me. I still remember professor Liu, my art history teacher, continuously ‘‘Rubens’ red is the gratest red in the world, his red is gorgeous, profound...
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All the Others in Me @ Maria José Arjona. 2012. Mandragoras Art Space. NYC
- ARJONA Maria José, All the Others in Me, March 7. 2012, Mandragoras Art Space, NYC. Photo. Agata Domanska. In the works of Maria José Arjona, the body has always a central place. It is powerful element of visual communication, energy exchange and generator...
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Granada @ Hector Canonge. 2011
- CANONGE Hector, Granada, 2011, Stage-Newark, New Jersey, Friday, October 22. Photo. Fernanda Hubeaut. About: Granada is a performance as a ristualistic experience. Using the spanish word, for pomegranate, granada references the fruit’s origins in Iran...
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Erasable @ Hector Canonge. 2011. Miami Art Fair
- CANONGE Hector, Erasable, 2011, Miami Art Fair. About: Performance art work references the disappearance of undocumented immigrant workers due to current laws adopted by the United States. The inhumane vanishing and separation of women, men, and children...
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Wilaya of Relizane 1998 (Massacre de Ramka) @ Nisrine Boukhari. 2013 (video-performance)
- BOUKHARI Nisrine, Wilaya of Relizane. 1998, 2013 (video-performance) ‘‘The massacre took place just as the inhabitants of the hamlets around the town of Relizane, 180 miles west of Algiers, were breaking their daily Ramadan fast at sunset. until dawn...
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Fault @ Sherman Fleming. 1981. Exit Art
- FLEMING Sherman (aka RodForce), Postcard invitation for Fault, 1981, Art Archive, Fales Library, NYC University. Using his former pseudonym RodForce, Sherman Fleming explored ideas about black masculinity and confronted the psychosexual tensions surrounding...
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Your Blue Eyes Melt my Bronze Soul @ Hector Canonge. 2011. Photo. Zac Skinner
- CANONGE Hector, Your Blue Eyes Melt My Bronze Soul, vendredi 14 octobre 2011, Grace Exhibition Space. About: Interactive performance that pays homage to the maritime explorations of Christophe Columbus while reflecting on more than four hundred years...
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Death Bear: Fourth Free Public Service @ Nate Hill. 2009. Photo. Carolyn Cole
- HILL Nate, Death Bear: Fourth Free Public Service, 2009. We all have someone or something we would rather just forget. Things fall apart. Love hurts. Dreams die. But when you summon Death Bear to your door, you can rest assured that help has come. At...
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Globalization and Border @ Sunil Sigdel. 2008
- SIGDEL Suni, Globalization and Border, 2008. « The world we live today has given many definitions to a human being. At the same time it has also taken so much from us. The common belief of globalization has seemingly ready a parson with boundless possibilities...
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Kipper Kids. 1975. Laica. Los Angeles. Photo Bill Borden
- KIPPER KIDS, Laica, Los Angeles (photo) — Peter Clothier, « The Kipper Kids: An Endless Ritual, » LAICA Journal, no.5, April/May 1975, pp.47-49. Excerpt: « The performance is gross, obscene, irreverent and unbeautiful. It is a deliberate and unremitting...
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Negerkuss @ Wayne Hodge. 2011 Performance -Photo Kathrin Heller
- HODGE Wayne, Negerkuss, 2011, Performance -Photo Kathrin Heller. Negerkuss (Variation #1) a performance in which the artist, masked covers a bust of Cleopatra with black lipstick kisses. The bust is a replica of a sculpture found in Berlin’s Antiken...
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Nothingtoodoo @ Terence Koh. 2011
- KOH Terence, Nothingtoodoo, 2011. Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh create curious conceputal zines and gorgeous monochromatic mixed media work, all imbued with a sense of humor, ritualism, and a luminous aura of white. His internet presence is like...
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News @ Jiaxin Miao. 2014. Outlet Fine Arts. Brooklyn. NYC
- MIAO Jiaxin, News, 2014, Brooklyn, NYC. Live performance at Outlet Fine Arts documented with surveillance cameras. In a ritualistic body cleaning performance, The Wall Street Journals is used to swab his skin. The ashy ink stains is left on his face,...
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My New York 2 @ Zhang Huan. 2002
- HUAN Zhang, My New York, 2002, Whitney Museum, NYC. Something may appear ro be formidable, but I will question whether or not it truly is so powerful. Sometimes such things may be extremely fragile, like body builders who take drugs and push themselves...
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Mon fils @ Léa Lublin. 1968. Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris
- LUBLIN Léa, Mon fils, 1968. In Mon fils, one of her first performances, Lea Lublin took care of her seven-month-old son Nicolas at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris throughout the whole exhibition. Art, daily life, motherhood and conceptual...
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Lying Down Ceremony @ Milan Knizak. 1968. Douglass College. Photo : Das Anudas
- KNÍŽÁK Milan, Lying Down Ceremony, 17 décembre 1968. Old Gym, Douglass College, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Photo. Das Anudas. ‘‘Lying Down Ceremony: Everybody is lying on the floor with a kerchief on their eyes. For a long time. Tuesday, December 17,...
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Performance Piece-Nylon Mesh and Maren Hassinger @ Senga Nengudi. 1977
- NENGUDI Senga, Performance Piece-Nylon Mesh and Maren Hassinger, 1977. Born in Chicago, Senga Nengudi (1943, USA) grew up in California, where she studied art and dance. In 1971, she moved to Harlem and became involved with just Above Midtown, the first...
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So You Want to Be a Waitress, All City Waitress Marching Band performance @ The Waitresses. re-creation 2007
- THE WAITRESSES, So You Want to Be a Waitress, All City Waitress Marching Band performance, Doodah Parade, December 1979, Pasadena, California, USA, re-creation April 2007 LA Artscene, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.. The Waitresses...
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Le Baiser de l'artiste @ Orlan. 1977
- ORLAN, Action Orlan-corps: le baiser de l’Artiste, 1977. FIAC. Grand Palais. Paris. — « Sylvie Roques : Vous parliez de ‘‘performance-action’’ pour les MesuRages. Est-ce que Le Baiser de l’Artiste (1977) entre également dans cette catégorie d’action...
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Micro-Event/Résistances quotidiennes @ Tsuneko Taniuchi. 2011
- TANIUCHI Tsurneko, Micro-événements/Résistances quotidiennes, 22-30 oct. 2011 Frasq-rencontre de la performance #3, Le Générateur, Gentilly, France. ‘‘Puisque l’art de la performance est éphémère, je tente de réactualiser/réactiver plusieurs de mes...