Avant Garde
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Dancers?
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are so jealous!
They had a recent naked performance in NYC.
Link is to safe-for-work NEW YORK TIMES coverage.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 15, 2017 -
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Category: Body, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Dance
Niki de Saint Phalle Gun Art
We've discussed much gun-based art here before--artists shooting themselves or other objects--but I do not believe we have yet covered this instance by Niki de Saint Phalle.
A white canvas with bags of paint concealed beneath was to be fired upon, releasing the paint in random patterns. But the project proved more intractable than anticipated.
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 31, 2016 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Guns, 1960s
A Minute of Dance Per Day
There is just as much of this as you can take--and possibly more than you can take--at her page:More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 24, 2016 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Performance Art, Europe
Crawl Through at Labbodies
This is the penultimate Labbodies experience for us, and I am reminded of the immortal words of Kang and Kodos: "We have reached the limits of what anal probing can teach us."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jun 01, 2016 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde
Robot Ballet
The Italian Futurists had a thing for robot costumes in their dance performances. They left behind some weird imagery.
Read about them here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 17, 2016 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Futurism, Robots, Avant Garde, Dance, Europe, Twentieth Century
Swinging Britain
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 06, 2016 -
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Category: Fashion, Avant Garde, Teenagers, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Psychedelic, 1960s
Mystery Illustration 17
Is this 1930 image from:
1) A Surrealist art show?
2) A Paris fashion show?
3) An Artists' Ball?
4) A movie?
Answer after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 28, 2016 -
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Category: Avant Garde, 1930s
The Sonic Bed
Sonic Bed - Kaffe Matthews from Avatar on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 19, 2016 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Interior Decorating, 2000s, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Yvonne Meier
I regret that I cannot find any relevant videos of Ms. Meier in performance. But perhaps these stills and text will suffice to convey her uniqueness. Spare no expense to rush to NYC to catch this act!
Another view of determination emerged on Monday, courtesy of the bold downtown choreographer Yvonne Meier. In “Durch Nacht und Nebel” (“By Night and Fog”), she keeps her audacious reputation intact, as well as her predilection for props. Here, they include a hefty mound of rubble, plastic eggs with baby dolls inside — she shoves them in her mouth — and Band-Aids. They cover much of Ms. Meier’s voluptuous, nearly naked body; as she shakes, they quiver, transforming her skin into scales.
Fearlessly morphing from one creature to the next — one transformation involved an orange bodysuit affixed with the plastic babies, and in another, she was coated in black paint — she exposed her aging body with aplomb.
Source of text.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 14, 2016 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Dance
Wailing, Sobbing, Shrieking Performance Art
Let me know when you bail!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Nov 23, 2015 -
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Category: Feminism, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Women
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