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Yayoi Kusama - Photo by: Harrie Verstappen

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“Rather than confirming the ontological coherence of the body-as-presence, body art depends on documentation, confirming-even exacerbating-the supplementarity of the body itself. Predictably, although many have relied on the photograph, in particular, as “proof’ of the fact that a specific action took place or as a marketable object to be raised to the formalist height of an “art” photograph, in fact such a dependence is founded on belief systems similar to those underlying the belief in the “presence” of the bodyin- performance. Kristine Stiles has brilliantly exposed the dangers of using the photograph of a performative event as “proof’ in her critique of Henry Sayre’s book The Object of Performance. Sayre opens his first chapter with the nowmythical tale of Rudolf Schwarzkogler’ss uicidal self-mutilation of his penis in 1966, a story founded on the circulation of a number of “documents” showing a male torso with bandaged penis (a razor blade lying nearby). Stiles, who has done primary research on the artist, points out that the photograph, in fact, is not even of Schwarzkogler but, rather, of another artist (Heinz Cibulka) who posed for Schwarzkogler’se ntirely fabricated ritual castratio."

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Yayoi Kusama (Japonaise, née en 1929), Self-Obliteration, 1967. Photo : Harrie Verstappen.

A rare photo of artist Yayoi Kusama from the 60s on her 89th birthday today. H...

A rare photo of artist Yayoi Kusama from the 60s on her 89th birthday today. H…

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Yayoi Kusama - Photo by: Harrie Verstappen