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Bruce Nauman

‘Body Pressure’, a 1974 performance piece by Bruce Nauman.

The performer is instructed (through a poster hung on the wall) to press himself against the wall in various positions. The poster is also a free edition.

The text from this poster is below.

Body Pressure
Press as much of the front surface of
your body (palms in or out, left or right cheek)
against the wall as possible.
Press very hard and concentrate.
Form an image of yourself (suppose you
had just stepped forward) on the
opposite side of the wall pressing
back against the wall very hard.
Press very hard and concentrate on the image pressing very hard.
(the image of pressing very hard)
press your front surface and back surface
toward each other and begin to ignore or
block the thickness of the wall. (remove
the wall)
Think how various parts of your body
press against the wall; which parts
touch and which do not.
Consider the parts of your back which
press against the wall; press hard and
feel how the front and back of your
body press together.
Concentrate on the tension in the muscles,
pain where bones meet, fleshy deformations that occur under pressure; consider
body hair, perspiration, odors (smells).
This may become a very erotic exercise.

By mh | Posted in Composition | Also tagged action, body pressure, bruce nauman, DIY, erotic, exercise, instruction, performance, pink, poster, relational aesthetics, romance, text, unknown | Comments (1)

Unknown

Another one from an unknown author.

By mh | Posted in Abstraction | Also tagged action, billboard, blog, commercial, DIY, fuckem, fun, installation, moment, photo, public art, sign, sky, this is it, unknown | Comments (4)

Unknown

Unknown artist (source)

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Tadasu Takamine

Stills from the video ‘God bless America’ (2002) by Tadasu Takamine.

Tadasu Takamine and his lovely assistant shared a room with a huge clay face for eighteen consecutive days. Before the eye of the camera, they ate, slept, read, had sex and made continuous changes to the face, animating it to keep time with a scratchy, halting recording of the American patriotic classic “God Bless America”.

By sk | Posted in Composition | Also tagged America, animation, camera, eat, George W. Bush, god, god bless america, head, red, room, sex, sleep, Tadasu Takamine, video | Comments (0)

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys

Pictures of the exhibition ‘Objekte als Freunde’ (‘Objects as friends’) by Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, on view until August 16, 2011.

The exhibition consisted of 168 photographs of installations of the most random objects from 1 euro-shops or thrift stores, all of the same size and very detailed.

From different corners of the room came a generic, dull, computerized voice describing different colours and their associations and meaning. This sound belonged to the animation shown below.

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Lance Wakeling

‘Reference Library’ (2011). Trophies for books Lance Wakeling read during 2010.

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Martin Kippenberger

Martin Kippenberger, ‘Peter’

The idea of the ‘Peter’ sculpture installation was that all of these sculptures would be clustered together as you see them here in a way that they’re getting into eachother’s space and they make looking at any one sculpture impossible without the interference of all the others. The sculptures are not made by Kippenberger himself, they’re made for him by his assistant Michael Krebber, an artist in his own right.

‘Peter’ was a word that Kippenberger liked to use a lot in a very general way, almost like we now would say ‘whatever’. But it also had a punning aspect in which St. Petersburg was where the Hermitage museum was, and where one could find displayed hundreds of works of art in closed configurations on the walls as opposed to the isolation that we think of in modern western museums.