performance
Exploding Plastic Inevitable
2011 ::: offart
Maya Kessler
2011 ::: offart
COLD CUTS
Compilation of different works by Maya Kessler. Here animations and short clips contain a ironic gender role statement.
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Compilation of different works by Maya Kessler. Here animations and short clips contain a ironic gender role statement.
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Wayne Horse (b.1981)
2011 ::: offart
*Untitled
*elefantboy
*WALROSS
Wayne Horse works in Netherland as a conceptual artist. He`s a founder of the performance group "the dogs of shame“. His movies are like a understatement for a ultimate sense of subversion.
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*elefantboy
*WALROSS
Wayne Horse works in Netherland as a conceptual artist. He`s a founder of the performance group "the dogs of shame“. His movies are like a understatement for a ultimate sense of subversion.
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Bob Flanagan (1952-1996)
2011 ::: offart
Sheree, Bob, Pizza, & Milk (Spring 1995)
Artist Sheree Rose and husband/creative partner Bob Flanagan at their Silver Lake, Los Angeles home, Spring 1995. An extended version of "Sheree, Bob, & Pizza (Spring 1995)". Dominant Sheree agrees to get milk for submissive Bob (who is handicapped), but demands a small favor in return. Excerpted from Sheree's extensive video recordings of their life together.
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Artist Sheree Rose and husband/creative partner Bob Flanagan at their Silver Lake, Los Angeles home, Spring 1995. An extended version of "Sheree, Bob, & Pizza (Spring 1995)". Dominant Sheree agrees to get milk for submissive Bob (who is handicapped), but demands a small favor in return. Excerpted from Sheree's extensive video recordings of their life together.
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Elitsa Ganeva (b. 1986)
2011 ::: movie
Two movies from Elitsa Ganeva aka Foxe, „beginning“ and „v“.
In „beginning“ a couple drifting trought a town like searching for forgotten words. The man with the camera, an endless story of modern times, intellectual and his model, mind visions as blue screen, short cuts, a moment of pleasure if you can find it.
„v“ is a serie of portraits as a kind of self-discovery. circling in a room around a woman, suggest a borderline situation.
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In „beginning“ a couple drifting trought a town like searching for forgotten words. The man with the camera, an endless story of modern times, intellectual and his model, mind visions as blue screen, short cuts, a moment of pleasure if you can find it.
„v“ is a serie of portraits as a kind of self-discovery. circling in a room around a woman, suggest a borderline situation.
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Cory Arcangel (b. 1978)
2010 ::: offart
"This performance is going to be about 'Continuous Partial Awareness' -- a phrase that was first described to me as meaning 'you know, like, when you have 3 IM windows open, 2 email inboxs dinging away, are txting 5 different people, and also have 5 tabs open on your browser, each with updated content.' It is about paying attention to everything all the time, but not really concentrating on anything. It is different from multitasking, because with multitasking, one actually is expected to concentrate on tasks at some point, even if in small doses.
'Continuous Partial Awareness' is the eroded degenerate modern version of multitasking. I still don't know how this performance will take shape, it might be a lecture, a music show, a broadcast, a chess game, etc, etc, but what I do know is that the feeling of 'non-concentration' that has seeped into today's life through our flat screen displays and wifi will be its starting point." -- Cory Arcangel
Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 8:30pm
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'Continuous Partial Awareness' is the eroded degenerate modern version of multitasking. I still don't know how this performance will take shape, it might be a lecture, a music show, a broadcast, a chess game, etc, etc, but what I do know is that the feeling of 'non-concentration' that has seeped into today's life through our flat screen displays and wifi will be its starting point." -- Cory Arcangel
Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 8:30pm
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Narcisso Loco
2010 ::: offart
by Blanche Alix / Xtron
France / 2002 / Color / 108 / Production : Canal+
Blanche Alix, prisonner of her reflection in the mirror, recomposes a new face for herself for complete fulfillment.
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Mary Last Seen by Sean Durkin
2010 ::: preview
A young woman embarks on a road trip with her boyfriend to a place he promises will be beautiful and peaceful.
But a series of strange events occur on their journey, and it becomes clear that their relationship is not
what she thinks and their destination is not what was promised.
Director: Sean Durkin Cinematographer: Drew Innis Producers: Josh Mond & Antonio Campos Starring: Brady Corbet & Alexia Rasmussen
Short film premieres at 2010 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
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Director: Sean Durkin Cinematographer: Drew Innis Producers: Josh Mond & Antonio Campos Starring: Brady Corbet & Alexia Rasmussen
Short film premieres at 2010 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL.
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Lara Stone in Chanel Fitting Room Folies by Karl Lagerfeld
2010 ::: fashion
You here the verbal instructions by Karl Lagerfeld, it suggest the relationship between the artist and his model. Listen to cool-jazz, made in black&white in a scene of asking me when did Jean Luc Goddart come for dinner***.
Directed by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel's 2010 Cruise Collection
Model: Lara Stone
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Directed by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel's 2010 Cruise Collection
Model: Lara Stone
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A Walk Through Art Basel Switzerland
2010 ::: preview
This is what I call a walk through. Vernissage.TV truely puts you in the action, they don't give you plain clear shots of Art or house music playing over the video. They give a true experience of the art basel even to the most important part, "people watching."
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Robert Filliou (1926-1987)
2010 ::: offart
Charlie White (b.1972)
2010 ::: fashion
Lights, created for Interpol
Eclectic S/M-Scene between three woman with the message what goe`s in will come out again. a lab of erotic sophisticationin the basement of the chase manhatten bank, perhaps. And there`s a lot transformation of course...
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threeASFOUR
2010 ::: fashion
threeASFOUR is a fashion label from New York City established in 1998. The new line was in cooperation with Yoko Ono, showed on New York Fashion Week.
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Gil Scott Heron
2010 ::: offart
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (1971)
Official promo for Gil Scott Heron's collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then.
Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House.
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Official promo for Gil Scott Heron's collected lyrics and poems, Now and Then.
Produced by Peter Collingridge and directed by Julian House.
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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
2010 ::: offart
Screen Test
Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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Between 1964 and 1966, Andy Warhol shot nearly 500 Screen Tests, beautiful and revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, from the famous to the anonymous, all visitors to his studio, the Factory. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong keylight, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in slow motion, resulting in a fascinating collection of four-minute masterpieces that startle and entrance, mesmerizing in the purest sense of the word.
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Casey Neistat
2010 ::: offart
The Ethics of Stealing a Bike
between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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between a movie in a movie and a performance with a subtle irony „new mediasmile“, Casey Neistat videos are a kind of conceptual brilliant dilettantism. On this movie he mixes different layer`s of perception into a state of question, what kind of ethic and social behavior are below pictures, words and the common value system.
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Stelarc (b.1949)
2010 ::: offart
Wolfgang Flatz (b.1952)
2010 ::: offart
A consistent example of bodyart was the flatz performance called guilty-not guilty, shown at 15.01.2010 at Kunstraum Tirol. there where some excited news on europe culture tv channels and some of the visitors of the show act like „aunt erna carry her treated dog“ ... .
anyway, Flatz well known for his strange bodyperformance`s shows how to get out with simple acting the most possible result. It`s like the other side of delicate works such for an exampel Valie Export, Orlan or „Patina de Prey“ (Hunter Reynolds). even the work of Bob Flanagan is more controvers in the meaning of gender discurse, but in the sense of a retrospect body expierence he become quit important. MdT
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anyway, Flatz well known for his strange bodyperformance`s shows how to get out with simple acting the most possible result. It`s like the other side of delicate works such for an exampel Valie Export, Orlan or „Patina de Prey“ (Hunter Reynolds). even the work of Bob Flanagan is more controvers in the meaning of gender discurse, but in the sense of a retrospect body expierence he become quit important. MdT
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Yvette Chauviré (b.1917)
2010 ::: offart
"The Dying Swan" danced by Yvette Chauviré
A Film by Dominique Delouche
A Cannes Film Festival selection, this portrait of Frances greatest ballerina (originally titled Yvette Chauviré: Une ètoile pour l'example) was also included in the Film Society of Lincoln Centers 2008 acclaimed series devoted to the ballet films of Dominique Delouche.
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A Film by Dominique Delouche
A Cannes Film Festival selection, this portrait of Frances greatest ballerina (originally titled Yvette Chauviré: Une ètoile pour l'example) was also included in the Film Society of Lincoln Centers 2008 acclaimed series devoted to the ballet films of Dominique Delouche.
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Ryoichi Kurokawa (b.1978)
2010 ::: offart
cimatics 17/11
Ryoichi Kurokawa is an audiovisual artist living in Osaka (Japan). His works take on multiple forms like screening works, recordings, installation and live performance. He composes time based sculpture with digital generated materials and field recorded sources, and the minimal and the complexitiescoexist there. He accepts sound and imagery as a unit not as separately, and constructs very exquisite and precise computer based works with the audiovisual language. That shortens mutual distance, the reciprocity and the synchronization of sound and visual composition.
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Rich Ragsdale
2010 ::: offart
dance/movement test for experimental film
is a short intense work with an interesting combination of traditional dance moving scenes (expressionismus, butho, artaud, ect) and an atmospheric sound.
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Joseph Beuys (1921-1986)
2010 ::: offart
Martha Rosler
2009 ::: offart
Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)
From A to Z, Rosler "shows and tells" the ingredients of the housewife's day, giving us a tour that names and mimics the ordinary with movements more samurai than suburban. Rosler's slashing gesture as she forms the letters of the alphabet in the air with a knife and fork, is a rebel gesture, punching through the "system of harnessed subjectivity" from the inside out.
"I was concerned with something like the notion of Ôlanguage speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity."
Martha Rosler
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Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T): Nine Evenings
2009 ::: offart
Robert Rauschenberg John Cage Deborah Hayes David Tudor Robert Whitman Oyvind Fhalstrom
Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Theater-Festival, Armory Hall, New York: In the 1960s, what would later lead to the founding of the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, was first put into practice on a large scale by ten New York artists as a unique festival for electronic as well as interactive performances and demonstrations.
The idea of collaborating with technicians, not only initiated by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver but also organized and largely promoted by them, lead to the performances suggested by the festival title: Nine Evenings with performances by John Cage, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Öyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman.
Billy Klüver was again the driving force. The main technical element of the performances was the electronic modulation system TEEM, composed of portable, electronic units which functioned without cables by remote control. Cage used this system to activate and deactivate loud speakers that consistently reacted to movement by way of photo-cells.
For not always being technically and artistically successful, these performances exhausted for the first time the full range of the live-aspect of electronics, taking advantage of its artistic potential in all of its diversity. Seen in that light, the «9 Evenings» rank among the milestones of media art, even though today only a few filmed documents bear witness to the event.
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Liaisons Dangereuses
2009 ::: music
Germany's Liaisons Dangereuses was a group that pioneered industrial dance music with their lone self-titled 1981 album. Beate Bartel (founding member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D and Matador) and Chrislo Haas (founding member of DAF, member of Minus Delta T and Crime & the City Solution) formed the group in 1981 with vocalist Krishna Goineau; the group recorded a series of four ten-minute cassettes and then formed their only album from them. The group made several live appearances throughout the remainder of 1981 and 1982 and were occasionally joined by Anita Lane (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) and Hideto Sasaki. Liaisons Dangereuses was originally issued by Teldec Import Services and was picked up by a couple other labels shortly thereafter. Once copies of a 1985 reissue on Roadrunner dried up, the album became an extremely sought-after collector's item, thanks in no small part to the number of prominent DJs -- primarily from Chicago's house and Detroit's techno scenes -- who frequently spun the album's "Los Niños del Parque." Hit Thing reissued the album on CD again in early 2003.
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Los niños del parque
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Frieder Butzmann
2009 ::: offart
Chris Barr (b. 1980)
2009 ::: offart
17 Minutes is a performance and video blog project. It is estimated that someone commits suicide every 17 minutes. For each performance I spend 17 minutes standing outdoors next to a tree. At the end of this 17 minutes I fall to the earth. This ritual offers a place of reflection, the time between. It also deals with the specific circumstance of my own brother's suicide and as a reenactment aims to be reminder of the life with which I am engaged
Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States. Every 43 seconds, someone attempts one.
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Every 17 minutes, someone commits suicide in the United States. Every 43 seconds, someone attempts one.
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Kenneth Anger
2009 ::: movie
Scorpio Rising (1963), Lucifer Rising (1970), Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (1966)
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Fred Astaire (1899-1987)
2009 ::: offart
Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time (1936)
The dancing in Swing Time is some of the best of all the Astaire/Rogers pairings, and Astaire's homage to Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is divine. ...
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Hilary Harris (1929-1999)
2009 ::: offart
Nine Variations on a Dance Theme (1966)
13 min, color, sound
This prize-winning film captures dancer Bettie de Jong, a longtime member of the Paul Taylor Company, as she performs a single dance theme numerous times. ...
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Oliver Herring (b. 1964)
2009 ::: offart
Nathan (Hotel Room CT) (2007)
5:30, color, sound
The subject of Nathan answered an ad to join Oliver Herring for some spontaneous art making sessions, a mode of working adopted by the artist in 2001. Nathan is by definition a solo, but it's also a pas de deux between dancer and camera.
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Kembra Pfahler
2009 ::: offart
Cornella; The Story of a Burning Bush(1985)
Film-as-performance from actress, artist, filmmaker, and co-founder of rock band Kembra Pfahler, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Blac
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Die Tödliche Doris
2009 ::: offart
Über-Mutti, Konzert 1983
Käthe Kruse (b.1958)
Wolfgang Müller (b.1957)
Nikolaus Utermöhlen (1958-1996)
Founded in West Berlin, Die Tödliche Doris one of the most influential creators of conceptual, avant-garde music and performance art in the 1980s.
The Deadly Doris (translated) were central to the new atonal music scene in 1980s West Berlin. In 1981 they performed at the Festival of Ingenious Dilletantes. Attempting to ignore the division between high art and subculture, amateurism and dilettantism were celebrated as democratic forces against both the capitalist system and GDR socialism.
The group created records, tapes, films, performances, and exhibited their work widely including at documenta 8 in Kassel.
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Zubi Zuva
2009 ::: offart
X Suite Europe Live undated
Zubi Zuva is a freewheeling a cappella vocal trio, running the gamut from Gregorian Chant and Buddhist Shomyo to doo-wop, hardcore and looney tunes -- of course, as usual, all in a language of Yoshida's invention. Essential listening for those interested in the outer limits of weirdness." Features Yoshida Tatsuya (alto voice), Shibasaki Yukifumi (tenor voice) & Takahashi Hideki (baritone voice).
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Zubi Zuva is a freewheeling a cappella vocal trio, running the gamut from Gregorian Chant and Buddhist Shomyo to doo-wop, hardcore and looney tunes -- of course, as usual, all in a language of Yoshida's invention. Essential listening for those interested in the outer limits of weirdness." Features Yoshida Tatsuya (alto voice), Shibasaki Yukifumi (tenor voice) & Takahashi Hideki (baritone voice).
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2009 ::: preview
Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the 'William Blake of film'. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks became essential influences to contemporary art superstars like Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and Matthew Barney.
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Survival Research Laboratories
2009 ::: offart
Virtues of Negative Fascination (1985-86)
Runtime: 75mins
"Virtues of Negative Fascination" is a documentary covering the performance activities of Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Pauline, Matt Heckert and Eric Werner, from 1985-1986.
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Philip Glass and Robert Wilson
2009 ::: offart
EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
Documentary, Interview`s about this legendary opera, sound and choreographie
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William K. L. Dickson
2009 ::: offart
The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
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Yves Klein
2009 ::: offart
Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings
Filmed in 1960, Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings consists of two art performances. Musicians play music as Yves Klein directs young women to imprint their blue-painted-bodies onto canvas. The second performance involves the women helping to create an outline of themselves before a torch is used to scorch the canvas.
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Bill Viola (b.1951)
2009 ::: offart
The Reflecting Pool
The American video artist Bill Viola focuses here on a pool and a man frozen mid-air above it.
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Virgine Marchant
2009 ::: offart
FOODFUCK IN NEW YORK/NICE AND ROME
An excerpt from the fiction film : FOODFUCK IN NEW YORK/NICE AND ROME, filmed in 2002. Tommy Rogers is the principal actor, poet musician and a performer in the film.a film by Virginie Marchand
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Kazuo Ohno
2009 ::: offart
Installation + Performance Concept.
Virginie Marchand dances with Kazuo Ohno for his 99th birthday at his home in Yokohama, Japan
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Virginie Marchand dances with Kazuo Ohno for his 99th birthday at his home in Yokohama, Japan
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Yasuchika Konno
2009 ::: offart
A performance by Yasuchika Konno held at Tokyo Gallery on February 29th, 2007, for the opening of Riichi Yamaguchi's solo exhibition "A sense of de-tach-ment"
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Chris Burden
2009 ::: offart
Shoot
Chris Burden's conceptual performance from the early 1970s. Shot on Super-8, 16mm film, and half-inch video. Guided by the artist's comments on both the works and the documentative process.«In this instant 1 was a sculpture.» Chris Burden means the moment his arm was pierced by a bullet from a (copperjacket) 22 long rifle. Actually, when a friend pulled the trigger on November 19, 1971 at a distance of 13 feet, the intent was only to graze the artist's arm. «Shoot» was considered one of the most spectacular performances of the seventies, provoking journalists to ask, «Will he survive 30?» Such remarks turned Burden into a living myth but they also delineated the controversy that has always attended his work. The controversy surrounding «Shoot» was fuelled by the fantasies and fears triggered by shooting and gunshot wounds. Films like «Full Metal Jacket» or «Bultets over Broadway» indicate an enduring interest in the folkloric tradition of westerns, war and gangster movies. With the escalation of the Vietnam War, the subject matter penetrated the minds of the American public no longer as fiction but as fact in the shape of body bags, invalids and veterans from Vietnam. This exerted a significant influence on the daring of Burden's experimental piece.
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A Mini-Epic
Chamber of Perverse Torture
Sarah and Yumi are top-secret sex slaves for a high-ranking government official. They spend their days in a bizarre play-pen/torture chamber/slave-labor station, where they produce pro-war polo shirts by hand and live in constant fear. Yumi, having lived in the cell the longest, is almost completely brainwashed and paralyzed, but Sarah still possesses enough spunk to try to escape. Her impulsive scheme is thwarted by a few terrifying obstacles... will Sarah's inner courage be enough to save the day? Written by Anonymous at imdb
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