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Before and After @ Martha Wilson. 1974-2008
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Self Portrait (inst. & perf.) @ Marya Kazoum. 2004. Flash Art Fair. ph. Luca Casonato
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Wilson Martha as Barbara Bush. ph Dennis W. Ho
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Performance Définitions
La première définition du terme est apparue en Angleterre en 1494 et exprime l’idée d’“accomplissement d’une tâche, de mener à bien une action, un travail”. En 1709, l’English Dictionary parle de divertissement et d’exhibition publique. Il n’existe cependant...
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Happening
- G. Berghaus, "Happenings in Europe in the '60s. Trends, Events, and Leading Figures", in revue TDR-Tulane Drama Review, volume 37, Number 4 (T140), Winter 1993, p. 157-168. - B. H. D. Buchloh, Experiments in The Everyday : Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts....
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Happening
Le happening n’est pas une représentation plastique ou théâtrale conventionnelle. C’est un événement artistique ouvert et fluide, sans commencement structuré, ni milieu, ni fin. C’est un jeu sur la nature réelle de l’art et de la vie, de leur rapport...
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La Convergence des arts 3
Toutefois, Helga de la Motte, dans un article justement intitulé La Peinture est comme la musique21 utilise le terme musicalisme inventé par le peintre français Henri Valensi, pour exprimer précisément cette idée que la musique peut servir de référent...
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1965 : chronologie performance
1965 - BEUYS Joseph, How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (Comment expliquer des peintures à un lièvre mort), 1965. Galerie Smela. Düsseldorf (fluxus-action) - BEUYS Joseph, Twenty-Four Hours, 1965. - BRUS Gunther, Selbstbemalung, 1965 (fluxus). - BRUS...
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1968 : chronologie performance
1968 - CLARK Lygia, Dialogo-Oculos, 1968. - EXPORT Valie, Tapp und Task Kino (Touch Cinema), 1968. For Touch Cinema, Export allowed to touch her breasts through a portable curtained contraption for 30 seconds per person. In the artist’s own words : «...
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1968 : chronologie performance
1968 - BARUCHELLO Gianfranco, Perforce, 1968. The flesh of children, the bodies of children, children in the ritual mechanics of sacrifice. The ring-a-ring o’roses of the tiny bird disappears in a blaze of napalm. The negro floats motionless; nothing...
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Walk With An Exaggered Manner @ Bruce Nauman. 1967-68
WALK IN AN EXAGGERED MANNER AROUND THE PERIMETER OF A SQUARE, 1967-1968 1967-68, 10 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film In this silent film, Nauman walks around the perimeter of a large square marked off with masking tape. He shifts his hips exaggeratedly as...
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Samaras Lucas
Dans l'art de Lucas Samaras, tout tourne autour de lui-même, de son corps qu'il désigne comme matériau, avec lequel il travaille. Réduire son œuvre au Body-Art serait toutefois injuste pour ce New Yorkais d'adoption. Il est également sculpteur, mais aussi...
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Installation Art/Art et technologie
- Carter Michael & Geczy Adam, Reframing Art. Berg Publishers, 2005. - Costa Mario, Internet et globalisation esthétique, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2003. - de Oliviera Nicolas, Installation Art, Thames & Hudson. 1996. - What is Installation ?, ed. A. Geczy...
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Sweet Light @ Bill Viola. 1977
SWEET LIGHT, link Sweet Light 09:00 1977 Viola has referred to Sweet Light and other tapes from this period as "songs"-personal lyrical statements. Articulated through precise editing, Sweet Light incorporates symbolic imagery, changes of scale, and a...
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Memories of Ancestral Power @ Bill Viola. 1977
MEMORIES OF ANCESTRAL POWER (THE MORO MOVEMENT IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, 1977 Memories of Ancestral Power (The Moro Movement in the Solomon Islands) 1977, 35:19 min, color, sound The rituals and philosophies of indigenous non-Western cultures recur throughout...
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Installation 4 (Site-Specificity)
À partir de 1970, Richard Serra établit, comme fondement de sa démarche, la prise en compte de l’environnement naturel ou urbain, intérieur ou extérieur. Les structures d’acier sont donc placées spécifiquement et progressivement, Serra concentre son attention...
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Sodium Vapor @ Bill Viola. 1976-1986
SODIUM VAPOR, 1976-1986 1979, released 1986, 14:41 min, color, sound Writes Viola: "Sodium Vapor" was recorded over a period of several weeks in the hours between one and five in the morning on the streets of an industrial area in lower Manhattan. The...
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Vasulka Video @ Steina & Woody Vasulka. 1978
VASULKA VIDEO, 1978, 173 min, b&w and color, sound Transformations 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Vocabulary 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Matrix 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Steina 1978, 28:50 min, b&w and color, sound Objects...
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You Can't Lick Stamps In China @ N. J. Paik & G. Battcock. 1978
YOU CAN’T LICK STAMPS IN CHINA, 1978 by Nam June Paik and Gregory Battcock 1978, 28:34 min, color, sound A collaboration with the late art critic Gregory Battcock, You Can't Lick Stamps in China begins as a witty travelogue that explores the position...
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Button Happening @ Nam June Paik. 1965
BUTTON HAPPENING, 1965 1965, 2 min, b&w, silent Button Happening is Nam June Paik's earliest extant videotape, and possibly his first tape ever. Recorded in 1965 on the day he acquired his first Sony Portapak camera, this previously unknown work has recently...
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Nam June Paik: Tigerlives. 1999
TIGER LIVES, 1999 1999, 45 min, color, sound Tiger Lives is a re-edited compendium of footage from Paik's classic videotapes, re-assembled in 1999 with new material and vivid electronic processing. Commissioned for broadcast on Korean television as part...
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Video-Film Concert @ N. J. Paik & J. Yalkut. 1968-72
VIDEO-FILM CONCERT, 1966-72 by Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut 1966-72, 1992, 34:50 min, b&w and color, sound Video Tape Study No. 3 1966-69, 4 min, b&w, sound Beatles Electroniques 1966-69, 3 min, b&w and color, sound Electronic Moon No. 2 1969, 4:30 min,...
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Paik Nam June
Nam June Paik is a major contemporary artist and a seminal figure in video art. His video sculptures, installations, performances and tapes encompass one of the most influential and significant bodies of work in the medium. From his Fluxus-based performances...
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Shoot @ Vito Acconci. 1974
SHOOT, 1974 1974, 10:18 min, color, sound Shoot is a bold, theatrical work that merges the autobiographical with the cultural. Acconci's performance is an assault, a barrage of aggressive action, visuals and language. Acconci imitates the sounds of war,...
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Election Tape @ Vito Acconci. 1984
ELECTION TAPE, 1984 1984, 2:03 min, color, sound Steeped in black humor, this concise political critique is Acconci's contribution to artist Jenny Holzer's collaborative Sign on a Truck project, which was presented on a Diamond Vision Screen in New York...