Ryan Siegan-Smith, ‘I don’t want to make a book’ (2007)
Not a book.
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Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch, ‘C’etait un rendez-vous’ (1976)
A typical Monday-morning drive through Paris centre…
Patrizio Di Massimo
Patrizio Di Massimo, ‘Duet for cannibals’ (2010)
Born as a commission from the city of Milan to make a portrait of African immigrant Abdullay Kadal Traore, ‘Duet for Cannibals’ works as a dialogue between him and the artist. During the dialogue he shows Abdullay a drawing of his and ask him if he would like to make what is shown there for the commission – it’s an erotic position that they should both take.
Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser, Untitled (2003)
In Untitled, the artist is seen having sex with an unidentified American collector who paid close to $20,000 to participate in this curious 60-minute work of art. Among the requirements for participation in ”Untitled” were that the artist’s potential collaborator be heterosexual, unmarried and, of course, willing to underwrite the transaction.
As the video begins, Fraser enters a hotel room, her hair swept fetchingly to one side. The setting is standard-issue Hip Hotel: the videotape was filmed, using a single overhead camera, in a room Fraser identified as being at the Royalton Hotel in Manhattan, owned by Ian Schrager. The artist is carrying two glasses, white wine in her left hand and what looks like a highball in her right. The collector enters, and then begins a filmed seduction whose detailed contractual terms were worked out in advance by the artist’s gallery.
Kristoffer Myskja
Kristoffer Myskja, ‘Smoking Machine’ (2007)
Go to his website to see the machine (and many more) in action).
Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Schlingensief, ‘The last supper’
‘Little shrine’
The trailer of a documentary on Schlingensief’s action ‘Auslaender raus!’
Christoph Schlingensief died last Saturday, the 21st of August, at the age of 49.
Watch the documentary “Deutschland, deine Kuenstler: Christoph Schlingensief” below.
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