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thegreatinthesmall:

Salvador Dali’s Dream of Venus: The Surrealist Funhouse from the 1939 World’s Fair

Incredible

riotgirlstylenow:

Women in music + cats

4a:

What’s All This Talk of Dying for Revolution? (2005/2009) Lisa Anne Auerbach

likeafieldmouse:

Marina Abramovic – Rhythm 10 (1973)

“In her first performance Abramovic explored elements of ritual and gesture. Making use of twenty knives and two tape recorders, the artist played the Russian game in which rhythmic knife jabs are aimed between the splayed fingers of her hand. Each time she cut herself, she would pick up a new knife from the row of twenty she had set up, and record the operation.

After cutting herself twenty times, she replayed the tape, listened to the sounds, and tried to repeat the same movements, attempting to replicate the mistakes, merging past and present. She set out to explore the physical and mental limitations of the body – the pain and the sounds of the stabbing, the double sounds from the history and from the replication.

With this piece, Abramovic began to consider the state of consciousness of the performer. ‘Once you enter into the performance state you can push your body to do things you absolutely could never normally do.’”