my friend Henrik Hedinge is making the news with is performance art

I'm so excited to see Henrik's art featured in newspapers! Internet fame is fantastic, but newspaper-fame is more a part of real tangible life somehow. This is only a couple of recent articles, I know he's been featured several times before. I'm so impressed with the way he manages to get himself out there as an artist, he's so good with media, finding places to show his art, and finding other artists to network with. He's done performances worldwide! It's been good fun following his work since I got to know him. I've seen him doing live performances a couple of times, and it's been such cool experiences. Henrik's art is way far out and heavy with theory - yet he somehow manages to not be pretentious and alienating, but engages the audience in what he's doing no matter what their background is.



Some of Henrik's newer work deals with gender-flux. Good stuffs.
Check out his blog to see more of his art: http://henrikhedinge.blogspot.com/
I will also post some of my favourite works of his at some point.
Henrik and I did ArtProjectMjøsa2008 together, and I think ArtProjectMjøsa2010 would be a good thing to do was well..

nurse Johanna Gullin

I love this photo I snapped of my friend Johanna after I helped painting her all white before a video performance of hers some years ago. I like that even her mug and her cigarette is white. She was looking funky.

Check out my blog post about a leaf dress performance Johanna did if you want to see some of her art.

the grandmother of performance art

marina abramović describes herself as "the grandmother of performance art".

"Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind" - wikipedia

i find the performance she did with ulay called "rest energy" brutally intense.

"Rest Energy (1980); they hold a taut bow with an arrow loaded and pointing at Abramovic's heart, with only the weight of their bodies maintaining the tension. Microphones record their rapidly accelerating heartbeats." - link

aww they even have matching clothes and matching hair. they used to be lovers. something tells me their love for each other was dramatic.

my friend Johanna Gullin's art

my friend johanna gullin makes well cool art. these are photos from a performance she did with a dress made of leaf.









and with that i'm leaving norway and blogger for a week of italian niceness. i shall drink wine and swim in the ocean- both at the same time, while taking photos with my underwater camera!

lucy and bart!

art collaboration between lucy mcrae and bart hess described as "an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body."




www.lucyandbart.blogspot.com

the birth of barbie

he he. art is well fun. these are stills from original sin, a video by polish feminist artist alicja zebrowska.

i think the way the doll's hair is sort of merging with her pubes is priceless.




i actually used to have a doll just like that one, although i didn't give birth to mine; i stole it from someone. i felt very ashamed for a long time, but i'm over it now.

her website is a confusing one, but here it is nonetheless.

Tanja Ostojic: Looking for a man with a EU passport

It's something about her being all hair-less in both ends that makes her look more naked than just undressed. She's stripped. She's like an alien, a doll, objectified - but not in an easy sexy way.


“While using her own body within different cultural and social contexts as a retort to various power-games Ostojic inevitably entered the realm of "gender troubles". Her reflection on gender issues is focused on the economic and political phenomena that accompany the phantasm of European Community that is shared by many Eastern European countries. In her project "Looking for a Husband with a EU Passport" she reveals and ironizes the truth about the traffic with women, prostitution, pragmatic marriages and all other "side effects" of transition. In such conditions the economy of gendering is inevitably the economy of power over the body. The self-irony of this project is contained in the intentional aesthetics of artist's usage of her own image for the Internet add: her skinny shaved body without any traces of sensuality and seducing gaze or gesture conveys completely opposite visual message. From this conflict of the textual invitation with the visual repulsion was born the gap of ambiguity between attraction and abjection.” … (From essay by Suzana Milevska)

gelatin

i snapped a photo of this little photo in artforum some years ago. beneath is the text that came with it.



ArtForum, Oct, 2004 by Alison M. Gingeras

It's hard to say if Gelatin is seen as having a relationship to Pop. Our work is not "post-Pop-Punk-Rock-Fluxus," because it is not "post." Our work is new. If anything, our work is more "rock" than "pop." Our work deals with the body a lot, and it is better to "rock" the body than "pop" the body. But you can pop our cherries any time, darling! There's a common language in the body that everyone understands--we play with that. The body doesn't care if it gets rocked or popped. In the end, the body is a digestion device.
- as told to Alison M. Gingeras

portable paradise

portable paradise by zoe walker.

an easy-to-use emergency eden - inflate anywhere for maximum escape value.


.. i need one!!