Guatemalan artist carvs the letters P-E-R-R-A (bitch) into her thigh, the same word carved onto the many victims of her country’s feminicide crisis.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Includes interviews, dialogues and critical writing on art and politics. In French.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Thirty-six mini scenarios of torture and execution which transform the small immaculate bodies of fruit into figures that seem to increasingly identify themselves with human beings.
Thirty-six mini scenarios of torture and execution which transform the small immaculate bodies of fruit into figures that seem to increasingly identify themselves with human beings.
From Surrealist selfies to feminist self-portraiture, the ISelf Collection explores identity and the human condition through the central themes of birth, death, sexuality, love, pain and joy. Taking the display of the collection at Whitechapel Gallery as its springboard, this book looks generally at the question of the self in modern and contemporary art, and the ways in which artists are thinking about being and identity as an individual, in relation to others, to society and the wider world.
An email conversation between a noted poet.walker and a noted performance.walker about being temporarily prevented from walking ‘normally’ by illness/surgery. Their reflections cover cultural perceptions and personal values associated with walking, personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, practices for daily-life and an alphabet of falling.
This memoir spans Abramovic's five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art.
On Marina Abramović’s Nude with Skeleton and other animations.
In this durational site specific performance at St Clement’s Church, the artists create their sanctuary of sickness. This is a place for freaks, monsters and weirdos. It’s a place of pain, sacrifice and submission in order to survive and you are invited to join them. Co-presented by SPILL Festival of Performance and DaDaFest International: Skin Deep.