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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 (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 .
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)
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is an American performance art group which pioneered the genre of large-scale machine performance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline in San Francisco the group is known in particular for performances where custom-built machines, often robotic, compete to destroy each other.
Burden was born in Boston in 1946 to Robert Burden, an engineer, and Rhoda Burden, a biologist. [3] [4] He grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, France and Italy.[5]At the age of 12, Burden had emergency surgery, performed without anesthesia, on his left foot after he was severely injured in a motor-scooter crash on the island of Elba.
This report attempts to recapitulate the complex body of information which was gathered from refugee and other accounts. In order to convey this information, the collective accounts have been divided into nominal categories. The report is divided into three sections: ♦ Assessment Procedures ♦ Conflict Dynamics ♦ Summary of Findings
In the late 1960s, Acconci transformed himself into a performance and video artist using his own body as a subject for photography, film, video, and performance. Most of his early work incorporated subversive social comment. His performance and video work was marked heavily by confrontation and Situationism. In the mid-1970s, Acconci expanded ...
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