Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic

Beast Needs iPod, metallic C-print mounted on Plexiglas, 2008.

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Yves Klein

YVES KLEIN: The Blue Revolution

I'm so glad i got to see the Yves Klein exhibition when it was up at the Hirshhorn earlier this year. There is nothing so enticing as that IKB.

Six Colorful Inside Jobs by John Baldessari

Six Colorful Inside Jobs by John Baldessari

Han Bing

在人间 Mortal World
Mortal World: Castaway
Work year: 2005
Medium: Photo media
Width: 180
Height: 120
Edition: 4

Han Bing is an artist living and working in China. He works typically within the medium of photography, while using some forms of installation and performance art.

HEALING MYSTICAL SCIENCE COLLECTIVE LIVE @ JOSHUA TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010

HEALING MYSTICAL SCIENCE COLLECTIVE LIVE @ JOSHUA TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010

“Some people say that the essence of butoh lies in the mechanism through which the dancers stops being himself and becomes someone or something else. This is a different conception of dance then the conventional where the body of the dancer expresses an emotion or abstract idea.

For example, take the studying of a rooster. “The idea was to push out all of the human inside and let the bird take its place. You may start by imitating, but imitation is not your final goal; when you believe you are thinking completely like a chicken you have succeeded.

The important thing with this is not the transformation into a chicken, but the transformation itself, the fact that you change. Only in this way you can bring the body back to its original state. It is not depiction or symbolization which is the foundation of butoh. It is the metamorphosis.”

-Harmen Sikkenga, from Butoh - Dance of Darkness 1994.

Tokyo’s Dai Rakuda Kan Dance Group

1,000 Chinese Artists

Lawrence Weiner: "Statements"

Lawrence Weiner: "Statements"

(1) The artist may construct the piece.
(2) The piece may be fabricated.
(3) The piece need not be built.

Each being equal and consistent with the intent of artist, the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership.

Lawrence Weiner, 1968.

all eyes are watching

The Wrong Ensemble

Wonderful performance based conceptual work by the Wrong Ensemble.


A performer of The Wrong Ensemble doing a blowjob on a microphone during the opening of “Ain't No Sorry” at Museum of Modern Art Warsaw.

performance

Death Self - Performance piece by Uwe Laysiepen and Marina Abramović

To create this “Death self,” the two performers devised a piece in which they connected their mouths and took in each other’s exhaled breaths until they had used up all of the available oxygen. Seventeen minutes after the beginning of the performance they both fell to the floor unconscious, their lungs having filled with carbon dioxide. This personal piece explored the idea of an individual’s ability to absorb the life of another person, exchanging and destroying it.