A Proposal for ‘the worst public artwork’ contest – part 1

Notes

Artist pages in Performance Research.

Artist / Author Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Editor Melanie Bennet, Richard Gough, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer
Reference A0359
Date 2011
Journal Performance Research
Journal page 7
Type Article

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