Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s
ISBN: 9780816687794
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Performance art; Masochism in art;

Focusing on 1970s performance artists Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Gina Pane, and collaborators Marina Abramovic accent over c]/Ulay as well as those with similar sensibilities from the late 1980s onward (Bob Flanagan, David Wojnarowicz, Simon Leung, Catherine Opie, Ron Athey, Lutz Bacher, and Robby Garfinkel), OOCODell provides photographic documentation of performances and quotations from interviews with many of the artists. Throughout, OOCODell asks what we can do about the institutionalized forms of masochism for which these performances are metaphors."


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