I’m Not Your Babe – Franko B
Franko B 🖤
“In a new provocative and stark portrait of the existential self, Franko B uses his own drawn blood as a symbol of carnal reality and suggests the natural destitution of the body as a fundamental of existence. Standing before us a mute body-object, achromatic and cadaverous, his performance is an act of cleansing, stripping the flesh of identity.”
—artist’s website
Gina Pane, Sentimental Action
Bas Jan Ader, Broken Fall (Geometric), Westkapelle, Holland, 1971, c-print, 15 ¾ x 10 ¾”. Courtesy of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
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Marina Abramovic, Nude with Skeleton, 2004
Bruce Nauman, Failing to Levitate in the Studio, 1966. Black-and-white photograph; 20 x 24 inches. Collection of the Artist. © 2006 Bruce Nauman/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Gina Pane, The Conditioning (1973)
Chris Burden, Velvet Water, 1974
In this performance the artist repeatedly inhaled water and broadcast his self-torture to a remote audience.
Gina Pane, Nourriture-actualités télévisées-feu (1971; repr. Pluchart 1971).
Pane force-fed herself and spat back up 600 grammes of raw ground meat, watched the nightly news on television as she stared past a nearly blinding light bulb, and extinguished flames with her bare hands and feet. After the performance, she said, people reported a heightened sensitivity. “Everyone there remarked: ‘It’s strange, we never felt or heard the news before. There’s actually a war going on in Vietnam, unemployment everywhere.’” (Stephano 1973, p. 22)[4]
gina pane (b. 1939, d. 1990)
orgastic expulsion of intra space
Little Bristling Soul 