Gina Pane

Compilation film consisting of material from various artists who are involved in body art

A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the "Internationale Situationniste," "Cobra," "Spur," and "Wiener Gruppe" groups in Europe, and moving on to the international Happening and Fluxus movements, including the Viennese Actionists, and from 1970 onward to international Body and Performance Art, which also encompassed media art—film and video—the documentary presents film and photographic material from these art movements.

For Seven Easy Pieces Marina Abramovic reenacted five seminal performance works by her peers, dating from the 1960's and 70's, and two of her own, interpreting them as one would a musical score. The project confronted the fact that little documentation exists from this critical early period and one often has to rely upon testimony from witnesses or photographs that show only portions of any given performance. The seven works were performed for seven hours each, over the course of seven consecutive days, November 9 –15, 2005 at the Guggenheim Museum, in New York City. Seven Easy Pieces examines the possibilities of representing and preserving an art form that is, by nature, ephemeral.

A single protagonist in a small room performing enigmatic actions.

A close-up of the artist slowly cutting her own tongue with a razor blade, letting blood spill from her mouth.

On the artist's face, which lies supine on the ground, white larvae swarm undisturbed on the cheek, pushing into the nasal cavities, the labial commissure and that of the eyelids, sometimes ajar, sometimes moistened by tears.

Action by Gina Pane.

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