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Christopher Hewitt

(Berlin, currently on

residency in Copenhagen)

Andrea Saemann

(Basel, currently performing in Toronto and Quebec City)

Lucas Ihlein (Wollongong, currently here).

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Fluxus score by Albert M Fine

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Albert M Fine

Piece for Fluxorchestra for 24 Performers

1967

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A.M. FINE: PIECE FOR FLUXORCHESTRA. FLUXPERFORMER NO.1

2. Clap loudly at indeterminate intervals for short lengths of time.

3. Yell: "Damn this boredom", get up and walk out.

7. Re-enter and sit somewhere else, eating a bag of potatochips loudly, sharing them with your neighbours. When the bag is empty, inflate and

8. explode it with a bang if possible.

9. Chat with your neighbors, interrupt it suddenly without warning and yell: "What do you think this is - Ben Vautier and Total Art"? then

10. resume your conversation

11. Continue conversation or remain quiet. Burp.

12. Get up and walk out. Come right back in and announce: "I'm as much

13: it as anything." Sit in original seat.

14. Take a balloon from pocket and inflate it until it bursts.

15: Walk out.

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Jeremy Deller, 2001,

Re-enactment,

Battle of Orgreave (1984)

socially transformative effect of re-performing the score

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Back in the 1960s and 70s, the rules of performance were threefold:

1. No rehearsal.

2. No repetition.

3. No predictable end.

Abramovic made this remark about the rules of early performance art at "(Re)Presenting Performance" [Symposium], Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 8 April 2005.

- - -

from Theresa Smalec, writing about Abramovic re-enacting Acconci's Seedbed.

http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/issue.906/17.1smalec.html#ref1

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Perform Repeat Record:

Live Art in History

(ed Amelia Jones

and Adrian Heathfield)

2012

History Will Repeat Itself. Strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance

(Dortmund, 2007)

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https://vimeo.com/39660647

Eva and Franco Mattes

Vito Acconci - Seedbed 1972

Abramovic at the Guggenheim, 2005

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Brandon LaBelle, Learning from Seedbed, Chicago 2003

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Marina Abramovic 2010 at MoMA - see http://www.5lessonsmovie.com/2010/04/26/corporations-hollywood-homeland-security-and-museum-space/

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Guy Sherwin, Man With Mirror

1976-present

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also -- https://vimeo.com/7793718

for TLC's Woman with Mirror

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Guy Sherwin,

Man With Mirror 1976

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Sherwin demonstrates for us the choreography of Man With Mirror

using his young son Kai's plastic high-chair table top... (Brisbane, August 2008)‏

http://www.teachingandlearningcinema.org/

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Teaching and Learning Cinema

Shooting (Wo)man With Mirror,

Alfred Park, Sydney, 2009

Louise Curham

and Lucas Ihlein

with Pete Humble

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TLC, rehearsal and performance of

(Wo)man with Mirror,

2009, Artspace Sydney

(Imprint exhibition, curator Anneke Jaspers)

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Diagram showing TLC’s performance

positioning for (Wo)man with Mirror (2009-)

Audience distribution

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TLC, (Wo)man with Mirror, installation, Artspace, 2009

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TLC, (Wo)man with Mirror

timeline detail

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Louise Curham practicing

“(Wo)man with Mirror”

with Val Curham

Petersham, 2009

Lucas Ihlein practicing