That ’70s Ho: Tributes to Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Ulay

Oct 11 — 12, 2004
Field:

Performance

Location:

Western Front

Description:

As a part of the That ’70s Ho: A Celebration of Women and Performance Circa 1970 performance series, Gale Allen, Don Simmons, and Victoria Singh paid tribute to seminal performance works. 

Gale Allen recreated Marina Abramović and Ulay’s Talking about Similarity (1976) and Chris Burden’s Back to You (1974).

Don Simmons’s Relations in Gender was a reworking of Relations in Space (1976) by Marina Abramović and Ulay. 

Victoria Singh recreated Marina Abramović’s Rhythm 0 (1974).

Video documentation of this performance is available upon request.
 

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