Avant Garde
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
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 17, 2015 -
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Category: Business, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, Avant Garde, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Martial Arts, 1980s, Dance
Bohemian Dancers
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 26, 2015 -
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Category: Avant Garde, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1960s, Dance, Europe
Masterpiece
The picture above is just a portion of what is recognized by Guinness as the worlds longest sculpture. Artist Zheng Chunhui took 4 years to complete this beautiful masterpiece which is fashioned from one 40 foot long tree trunk. There are more pictures at the link.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jun 27, 2015 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Avant Garde
The Living Theatre, Deceased
With the death this month of Judith Malina, the world will be forever deprived of "happenings" like the one in the first clip, where, I regret, Ms. Malina does not appear until the final few seconds.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 18, 2015 -
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Category: Drugs, Avant Garde, Outsider Art, Performance Art, Pop Art, Obituaries, 1970s
The Short Weird Fiction of Guy Benoit
WU-vians with a spare couple of minutes, and who are looking for a wry chuckle or two, would be well advised to check out the flash fiction of Guy Benoit. A small taste below.A tip o' the chapeau to our WU artist Rick Altergott for the alert.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 10, 2015 -
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Category: Literature, Avant Garde, Reader Recommendation
Digging in the Dirt as Art
Escape 130206.001 Raerd from Leanne Wijnsma on Vimeo.
This woman does not intend to plant a shrub. It's her art.
Read the whole account here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 04, 2015 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Nature, Avant Garde, Europe
Kusama: Princess of Polka Dots
Creator of the "penis chair," among other objects of art.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 14, 2015 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Pop Art, 1960s, Asia, Mental Health and Insanity
Tanya Tagaq
Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 01, 2015 -
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Category: Music, Avant Garde, Native Americans
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