Thursday, April 21, 2011

Artist Must Be Beautiful

Gilman mentioning Sprinkle and Orlan in the last chapter

of Making the Body Beautiful made me think of

another woman artist who has based her performances

on manipulating the face and the body:

Marina Abramovic.

I'm sure you are familiar with her work.

Here's one of her less horrifying videos

(it could even be considered funny

--in Abramovic's idiosyncratic style, of course) :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cCFDSzDnUk&feature=related

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