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tom-isaacs:

Dream 1 – Mike Parr

“In 1978 Parr changed course with the performance Dream 1 (Lake Burley Griffin, Act 1, Performance Festival, Canberra) in which the artist was cast afloat on the water at night and recounted his dreams to the audience the following morning.”

From Body and Self: Performance Art in Australia 1969-1992 by Anne Marsh

All Ana Mendieta  

1) Silueta de Cenizas: Silueta Series, November 1975 ,Chromogenic Print  6 5/8 X 9 5/8 In. Collection Of The New Mexico Museum Of Art. Museum Purchase, 1998 (1998.33.1d) 

2) Untitled: Silueta Series, 1977, Alison Jacques Gallery

3) Untitled (Silueta Series) (1979)

4) Untitled, 1984

5-7) Bodily traces, leaf drawings on clusia rosea, the copey tree; Drawings on amate bark paper made by the Otomi people of Mexico originally made for ritual; Goddess sculptures made out of mud, associated with Cuba’s indigenous Taino culture; A M, 1980-85.

8) Ana Mendieta, Creek, 1974, super 8 film

9) Untitled (Blood and Feathers #2)1974, super 8 film

The text is a poem from Karen Volkman’s collection Spar