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Micro-événement n°1 @ Tsuneko Taniuchi
- TANIUCHI Tsuneko, Micro-événement n° 1/Ato no matsuri/Trop tard, 1995, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris. ‘‘Pour une exposition d’une soirée, j’ai tout de suite pensé à réaliser un projet qui sorte de la notion habituelle d’exposition laquelle implique une...
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Transfiguration Element Earth @ Yeni & Nan. 1983
- YENI & NAN, Transfiguration Element Earth, 1983. A woman’s face appears, covered in clay. Little by little the clay starts to dry on her skin as the water evaporates. Successively, the artist lifts her wet hands to her cheeks to return the clay’s elasticity...
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Integrations in Water @ Yeni & Nan. 1982
- YENI & NAN, Integrations in Water, 1982. Jennifer Hackshaw (1948, Venezuela) and Maria Luisa Gonzalez (1956, Venezuela) worked as a team from 1978 to 1986 under the name of Yeni & Nan. Polaroid photographs, installations, performances and photographs...
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Newspaper Event @ Carolee Schneemann. 1963. Judson Dance Theatre
- SCHNEEMANN Carolee, Newspaper Event, 29 January 1963, Judson Dance Theatre, NYC. See Sally Banes, Democracy’s Body. Judson Dance Theater. 1962-1964, Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1995, p. 93-97, excerpts : « Newpaper Event was choreographed...
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Studies for Hologram @ Bruce Nauman. 1970
- NAUMAN Bruce, Studies for Hologram, 1970 (silkscreen on glossy cover stock. 26’’ x 26’’ (série Making Faces). — Willoughby Sharp, « Body Works : A Pre-Critical, Non-Definitive Survey of Very Recent Work Using the Human Body or Parts Thereof », Avalanche,...
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El encierro @ Graciela Carnevale. 1968. Rosario. Argentine
- CARNEVALE Graciela, El encierro – project for the Experimental Art Series, 1968, Rosario, Argentine, 8 octobre 1968. Graciela Carnevale (1924, Argentina) was a member of the Grupo de Arte de Vanguardia de Rosario, a collective that created a complete...
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Finger @ Richard Alpert. 1982 (1975)
- ALPERT Richard, Finger, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, Ca., 1975. « This piece was a static installation. The room was in general darkness except for lights aimed at several areas in the space. An unindentifiable sound could be heard from the rear...
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Media Burn @ Ant Farm. 1975
- ANT FARM , Media Burn , 1975-2003. San Francisco. Videotape. 16 mins. Color. « (23:02 version EAI) (alias Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Curtis Schrier, Uncle Buddie) Media Burn integrates performance, spectacle and media critique, as Ant Farm stages an explosive...
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Reconstruction of a Portion of the Sidewalk at 500 Capp St. @ David Ireland. 1976
- IRELAND David, Reconstruction of a Portion of the Sidewalk at 500 Capp St., San Francisco, Ca., 1976. Ireland restoring the sidewalk in front of his home with great gusto and in the art spirit. — David Ireland, Bellingham, Washington: Whatcom Museum...
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Cinemasculpture @ Soon 3/Alan Finneran. 1976
- SOON 3/FINNERAN Alan, Cinemasculpture, directed by Alan Finneran, 1976. — Tom Di Felice, « Soon 3: An Interview with Alan Finneran », La Mamelle Magazine: Art Contemporary, no.4, Spring 1976, pp.17-19. Include photos. Excerpt: TD: The progression from...
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The Restoration of a Portion of the Back Wall, Ceiling & Floor of the Main Gallery of MOCA @ David Ireland. 1976
- IRELAND David, The Restoration of a Portion of the Back Wall, Ceiling, and Floor of the Main Gallery of MOCA, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, Ca., 1976. Tom Marioni commissions Ireland to restore a portion of MOCA. « It was making a painting,...
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Lady Luck. A Double Portrait of Las Vegas Personification of a Myth @ Lynn Hershman. 1975
- HERSHMAN Lynn, Lady Luck: A Double Portrait of Las Vegas, 1975. — Lynn Hershman, « Lady Luck: A Double Portrait of Las Vegas », Self-published, 1976. Documentary artist book for a work that took place at Circus Circus Casino and Spa in Las Vegas, Nevada,...
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Timbre @ Terry Fox. 1976
- FOX Terry, Timbre, 1976. Videotape, 30 mins., b/w. — Terry Fox, Timbre, Mt. Tamalpais amphitheater, Ca;, 1976. Fox performing a prompter’s box on a string instrument of found objects. Fox hired an airplane to fly over the performance and tuned his instrument...
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Great Moments @ T.R. Uthco (Doug Hall, Jody Procter). 1975
- UTHCO T.R. (Doug Hall, Jody Procter), Great Moments, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Ca. 1975. A ‘slapstick’ parody ‘review’ of all the great masters of performance art in general. — Tom Kent, « T.R. Uthco: The Theatrics of...
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Art & Technology @ Chris Burden. 1975
- BURDEN Chris, Art and Technology, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland, October 16, 1975. (see B-Car, 1977) « During the two month period of August 24 to October 16, 1975, I conceived, designed, and constructed a small one passenger automobile. My goal was...
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Rock 'n' Roll Piece @ Buchanan Nancy & Ransom Rideout. 1974
- BUCHANAN Nancy (with Ransom Rideout), Rock’n’Roll Piece, 10 août 1974, Gerard John Hayes Gallery, Westwood. CA. — Nancy Buchanan, « Rock’n’ Roll Pieces », La Mamelle Magazine: Art Contemporary, no.4, v.1, Spring 1976, pp.8-9. Documentation with text...
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Tubbing. Prelude to Sweet Sailor's Meat @ Paul McCarthy. 1975. Videotape
- McCARTHY Paul, Sailor’s Meat, 1975. Los Angeles. Videotape with sound, 30 mins., color. « A male figure in black panties and a platinum wig approaches a moth-eaten mattress on a brass bed frame. There is a period of testing the bed, jumping and pushing....
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A Sculpture in 2/3 Time @ Tom Marioni. 1974
- MARIONI Tom (as Allan Fish), A Sculpture in 2/3 Time, Student Culture Center, Belgrade, Yusgoslavia, 1974. « After polishing a smooth and reflective spot on an old rusted piece of steel I moved a wooden drumstick back and forth across the spot. On the...
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TV Radiation Survey @ Ant Farm. 1975
- ANT FARM, T.V. Radiation Survey, San Francisco, Ca., 1975. On July 25, 1975, Ant Farm (Curtis Schreier, Chip Lord and Doug Michels) made random visits to 40 homes in San Francisco to check T.V. sets for levels of X-radiation emission. — Ant Farm, «...
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Tokyo Rose @ Paul & Marlene Kos. 1975-76. Videotape
- KOS Paul and KOS Marlene, Tokyo Rose. Video installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1975-76. A steel mesh environmental trap easy to enter contained a monitor depicting Marlene Kos as Tokyo Rose seductively repeating ‘Come in, I want...
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Eternal Frame. Who killed Kennedy ? @ Ant Farm. 1975
- ANT FARM & T. R. UTHCO, The Eternal Frame, 1975 (Vidéo, 23 mins) Howard Smith and Brian Van der Horst . Extrait : « …bought at 1963 Lincoln Continental limousine and modified it with a roll bar and other presidential accoutrements. They researched every...
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Adventures of a Nurse @ Eleanor Antin. 1976
- ANTIN Eleanor, The Adventures of a Nurse (Parts I and II). Adventures as a Nurse, a paper-doll melodrama, 1976, 65 min, color, sound Nurse Eleanor is the heroine of a paper-doll melodrama, in which she has a succession of romantic encounters with a...
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Introvert/Penetrate... @ Jole de Freitas. 1973
- De FREITAS Jole, Introvert/Penetrate. Extrovert/Penetrate. Fear/Do Not Penetrate, 1973. « Using photography as a means of expression interests me inasmuch as it allows me to record the climate of my mental state. My body was photographed by myself;...
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A Lecture on Houdini (for Terry Allen) @ Allen Ruppersberg. 1973. Videotape
« Good morning. Today’s talk concerns a man who name has been a household word for almost three quarters of a century. However, it will not dwell on the details of an incredible life, most of which are readily available to any diligent student, but instead...
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Rite no.1 @ Giuseppe Desiato. 1964-65
- DESIATO Giuseppe, Rite n°1, 1964-65. « I was born in Naples in 1935 of an unknown father and Clementina Desiato. I became a painter because I did not want to become a tailor. My mother married a man who had four children when I was five years old. My...