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Seedbed. (performance piece) Seedbed is a performance piece first performed by Vito Acconci on 15–29 January 1972 at Sonnabend Gallery in New York City. In the piece, there is a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extends across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of ...
Vito Acconci (Italian: [ˈviːto akˈkontʃi], / əˈkɒntʃi /; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) [2][3] was an American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His performance and video art [4] was characterized by "existential unease ...
A seedbed of rice plants. A seedbed or seedling bed is the local soil environment in which seeds are planted. Often it comprises not only the soil but also a specially prepared cold frame, hotbed or raised bed used to grow the seedlings in a controlled environment into larger young plants before transplanting them into a garden or field. A ...
Seven Easy Pieces was a series of performances given by artist Marina Abramović in New York City at the Guggenheim Museum in November 2005. All performances were dedicated to Abramović's late friend Susan Sontag. Although the performance art world traditionally frowns on repeating individual works, valuing their transient, ephemeral nature as ...
Boeing plans to freeze hiring and reduce travel and is considering temporary layoffs to save cash during a factory workers’ strike that began last week, the company told employees Monday. Chief ...
Turning 30 this year, the Columbia staple on Devine Street, sandwiched between the bougie-leaning Shandon neighborhood and the far-less-buttoned-up Five Points, the doorstep to the University of ...
Cut Piece is an event score composed by Yoko Ono first performed in 1964 and is one of her best known works and is considered an early example of performance art. She has performed the piece a total of six times. Part of the intention behind her event scores is that the work may be performed by anyone and Cut Piece has been performed by many ...
The Couple in a Cage: Two Amerindians Visit the West was a 1992–93 performance art piece by artists Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña for their exhibition The Year of the White Bear and Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West which toured five countries and was performed in nine different locations. [ 1]