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Body Pressure is a 1974 performance piece by American artist Bruce Nauman. The performer or viewer is instructed to press "as much of the front surface of your body ... against the wall as possible", then to "[p]ress very hard and concentrate ... Think how various parts of your body press against the wall; which parts touch and which do not".
Bruce Nauman's Body Pressure (1974) Vito Acconci's Seedbed (1972) Valie Export's Action Pants: Genital Panic (1969) Gina Pane's The Conditioning (1973) Joseph Beuys's How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965) Abramović originally intended to recreate Chris Burden's Trans-Fixed (1974) Abramović's own Lips of Thomas (1975)
Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon , video , drawing, printmaking , and performance . Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico .
Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form was an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern curated by the Swiss curator, Harald Szeemann, in 1969. [1] The show is considered a groundbreaking landmark for Postminimalist and Arte Povera work which, according to the New York Times, was "arguably the most famous exhibition of new art of the postwar era."
1701 — Newton publishes anonymously a method of determining the rate of heat loss of a body and introduces a scale, which had 0 degrees represent the freezing point of water, and 12 degrees for human body temperature. He used linseed oil as the thermometric fluid.
Luminosity (1997) was a performance art installation by Serbian artist Marina Abramović at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.Along with Insomnia and Dissolution, Luminosity formed part of a larger work by Abramović called Spirit House.
Gina Pane (Biarritz, May 24, 1939 – Paris, March 6, 1990) [1] was a French artist of Italian origins. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1960 to 1965 [2] and was a member of the 1970s Body Art movement in France, called "Art corporel."
His body now lies in the chapel of Forest Lawn Cemetery. [12] The final years of Flanagan's life, including his death, are the subject of the Kirby Dick documentary SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. Flanagan's participation in the film was contingent upon his death being part of the completed project. [13]