Looking for some performance art inspiration or instructions? Look no further! Marina Abramovic created Seven Easy Pieces, which she performed at the Guggenheim in 2005. Two of these pieces are written by Marina herself, and five of them are written by other artist but performed by Marina in 2005. Check out this website for some [...]
Karen Montanaro, mime-dancer, sent me this; it is full of m o v e m e n t ! and song and things of matter. . .
Taking It to the Street
Installation view at Deitch Studios of Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, 2008.
TOM POWEL IMAGING
With carnivalesque flotillas, portraits pasted on crumbling walls, and manic impromptu performances, Swoon invests public art with playfulness, tenderness, and grit
by Ann Landi
Late last spring the artist known as Swoon made what may have been her biggest splash [...]
Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid are Russian-born artists currently living in the USA who collaborated on a range of works from 1967 to 2003. They’re long and colorful art careers includes arrest & destruction of their work by Soviet authorities, a knife attack on one of their artworks (they didn’t repair it and instead chose [...]
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Lauren Kalman creates a very intersting dialog between tradition and the body. Her works are beautifully thought out and pleasurable to read/see/view/absorb. The following is an excerpt from her bio on her website:
She hopes to use her art to affect social thought. By creating objects and images that are unconventional in their relationship to the [...]
The married duo of eclectic crafting together make up the team of ‘Something’s Hiding in Here’. From kitschy paint-by-numbers on wood cut-outs of North America to plaster animal busts covered in floral fabrics, their art is both accessible, funny, and design savvy.
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In my curious desire to design and implement a one-year performance piece I found Hsieh. This man is unbelievable. Please check out his six works and comment up a storm! –slou
“One Year Performance 1980-1981 — Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour. Can you know about this piece without thinking of drudgery? [...]
I found Duke Riley in the most recent edition of ARTnews among a group of artists labeled “artists to watch”. I will bring the magazine to class tonight for any and all interested in reading the article, ARTnews does not have a digital version of it. He is credited to have done multiple “madcap” aquatic [...]
Gonzalez-Torres was known for his quiet, minimal installations and sculptures. Using materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work is sometimes considered a reflection of his experience with AIDS. Many of Gonzalez-Torres’s installations invite the viewer to take a piece of the work with them: a [...]