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BIRGIT HEIN: JACK SMITH IN COLOGNE
The exhibition Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974 brings together photographs by Gwenn Thomas and a film by Birgit Hein, both documenting a performance by Jack Smith in the Cologne Zoo as part of Projekt 74 organized by Kunsthalle Köln.
Jack Smith (1932-1989), while often under-recognized, is clearly one of the most influential artists of American postwar Art. He was...
March 2012
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WatchDawn Kasper featuring Karen Adelman and Tara Jane ONeil, Meditations in a Fucked Up Emergency, 2011.
Free Clinic #2
Human Resources, Los Angeles, California
Organized by the Action Bureau
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February 2012
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WatchAlejandra Herrera, Sagrado y Profano, 2011.
Free Clinic #2
Organized by the Action Bureau
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January 2012
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The Action Bureau Presents: Paul Waddell @ Art Los...
For Immediate Release The Action Bureau presents: Paul Waddell Saturday, January 21st, 11:30AM
ALAC Ruskin Theatre Santa Monica Airport
Presented by the curatorial collective THE ACTION BUREAU, Los Angeles artist Paul Waddell will perform his new piece, Quick start camping trip urbane sim revision: a system for showing results (2012). Developed specifically for Art Los Angeles ...
December 2011
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Friend #00 at the Bad Cave - Press Release
For Immediate Release:
THE ACTION BUREAU PRESENTS J. PATRICK WALSH III’S FRIEND #00
Performance: Saturday, December 10, 2011, 4pm- sunset, Bronson Caves in Griffith Park Holiday Party: Saturday, December 10, 2011 10pm- onward, 4219 Whiteside St., 90063
THE ACTION BUREAU is pleased to present FRIEND #00, a performance by artist J. Patrick Walsh III, which will take place Saturday,...
October 2011
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Zine - Free Clinic #2 →
Free PDF of the publication produced for Free Clinic #2
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Paul Waddell on Marilyn Arsem
Andrew Berardini on Dawn Kasper
Catherine Taft on Alejandra Herrera
Download it for free via Scribd.
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Free Clinic #2
Please Join Us
The Action Bureau Presents Free Clinic #2
Featuring
Marilyn Arsem
Alejandra Herrera
&
Dawn Kasper
October 13th, 2011
at 6 O’Clock
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home St. in Chinatown
Los Angeles, California
Press Release
September 2011
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Kate Levant
Images from Blood Drive: Compromised by Kate Levant
July 16-September 4, 2009
Source: Zach Feuer
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Istvan Kantor - Blood Campaign
Source: Istvan Kantor
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Free Clinic #2 Fundraiser!
$2205 RAISED of $2000 GOAL
Dear Friends & Colleagues, We are excited to announce that Free Clinic #2 will take place on October 13th, and will again be hosted by Human Resources. Free Clinic #2 is the next installment in an ongoing series of of action-based, body-centric performance events that pair Los Angeles-based artists with the larger international performance community....
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Free Clinic #2 - Press Release
For Immediate Release
The Action Bureau http://actionbureau.tumblr.com/
Human Resources 410 Cottage Home Street
Los Angeles, CA info@humanresourcesla.com www.humanresourcesla.com
THE ACTION BUREAU PRESENTS FREE CLINIC #2 AT HUMAN RESOURCES
THE ACTION BUREAU is pleased to present FREE CLINIC #2, the second installment in an ongoing series of of action-based, body-centric performance...
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Travis McCoy Fuller
excerpts from:
Travis McCoy Fuller, Your Not Supposed To, 2008.
Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland.
Source: Travis McCoy Fuller
Photos: Maurice Blok + Erik Hokanson
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Alejandra Herrera
Alejandra Herrera, 51 Starts, 2008
In 51 starts, Alejandra Herrera methodically filled and then drank fifty-one glasses of red wine, upending each glass and allowing the wine to flow out of her mouth and down her neck and chest.
Photo: Hiroko Kikuchi
Source: Art Papers
WatchJaeuk Song, Durations, 2010
Excerpt from a 10 minute performance
Source: Jaeuk Song
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Catherine Taft joins The Action Bureau
The Action Bureau is pleased to announce that Catherine Taft has officially joined us as a member of our curatorial collective. She will henceforth be working with us to continue our Free Clinic series, develop new projects, and contribute her own original content to our tumblr.
Catherine Taft is a critic and curator based in Los Angeles. Her essays on contemporary art and culture appear...
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Elvira Santamaria
“48.480 blancos y uno rojo” Carrera 7a, between calles 13 y 14. Bogotá, Columbia 2007 3 Hours Photo: Eduardo del Corral
Covered with white carnations, I leave the Casa de Tortuga in La Candelaria, and walk slowly to the place where Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was killed in 1948. Upon arriving, I lie down on the floor with the commemorative plaques for a period of approximately 15 minutes....
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Trindlerschinquand
Trindlerschinquand is a Paris-based performance duo composed of Adrian Schindler and Romain Trinquand. Their partnership began in 2008, and they have since performed and exhibited internationally. Their performances promote absurdity, intensity, materiality, and failure. They use their bodies as tools taken out of their usual context through raw and grotesque situations. They recently...
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What is performance art?
A primary function of art is to bridge our spiritual and physical worlds. Through crass materialism we have reduced art to cultural real estate. Actual creativity can be neither bought nor sold, though its husks, shells and skins often are. It is possible in art to use meta systems without over-reliance on physical residue and attendant marketplace hustling, jockeying and squabblings. Art...
What is performance art?
It is the resolution of conflict through action. -Alastair MacLennan February 17th, 2000.
Source: Living Gallery
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What is performance art?
Performance art is a place. It is a time. It is a body. And it is a relationship. These are the formal elements of performance art, its essential building blocks. How they are gathered together, shaped or composed will vary according to the art and the artist. Every performance art work is a personal bid for the attitude or approach that turns these elements from raw material into art. What...
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