Marina Abramovic, rhythm 0, 1974

Rebecca Horn, Cockatoo Mask, 1973 (stills from Cockfeather Mask Perfomance II)

Horn described using this mask in a performance exploring ideas of sexual availability and intimacy: ‘My face is covered by two intertwined, closed feather wings. The person standing before me touches the feathers delicately, then separates and opens the wings. The spread wings stretch like long bird wings, and softly enclose around [both] our heads. The feather-enclosure isolates our heads from the surrounding environment, and forces us to remain intimately alone, together.’ The use of the mask is deliberately ambiguous and the performance implies a tension between tenderness and aggression. (Text Via)

This was supposed to be posted yesterday for Women’s International Day :’D sorry I don’t know how to draw bed sheets 😭

Shouldn't you be saying thank you?

goretober day 13: Hollow

Naama Tsabar - Melodies of Certain Damage (2022) (x) Watch the performance composed and performed in collaboration with: Rose Blanshei, Larkin Grimm, Maya Perry, Sarah Strauss and Naama Tsabar.

Gabriele Stötzer – from: Impromptu games, with Birgit Bronnert, 1982, gelatin silver print, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Rhythm 0, by Marina Abramović, 1974.

It was a six-hour work of performance art by Marina Abramović in Studio Morra, Naples in 1974. The work involved Abramović standing still while the audience was invited to do to her whatever they wished, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table. Among the props on the table, there were a rose, a book, water, and a gun and a bullet.

"Pas de Deux"

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Dancers (1914) by Ruth Hollick

Ruth Hollick ~ [Four girls dancing, wearing Grecian costume] & [Four girls weeping, wearing Grecian costumes], 1914. Glass negatives | src SLV view more on wordPress

Ruth Hollick ~ [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Three girls, wearing Grecian costume, with pan pipes) | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

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“When I created CEILING PAINTING (1966), I was depressed at the time. So I wanted to give some positivity to my life.

Yoko Ono

(Bottom Photo by Graham Keen)

listen to this beautiful poem (x)

Jean Metzinger (French, 1883–1956) • Circus Equestrienne • 1924 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

kedamono do not the frog— 😭

Rebecca Horn, stills from Der Eintänzer (The Dancer), 1978