Performances (1972-75) colour and black and white video, sound, 39min 30sec.
These performances are very much of the form of 'art by instruction' originally used in 150 Programmes and Investigations.
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Hold your breath for as long as possible.
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Light a candle, hold your finger in the flame for as long as possible.
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Push tacks into your leg .. until a line of tacks has been made up your leg.
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Using sharpened matches .. push matches between your teeth .. until your mouth is filled with matches.
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Sew a line of buttons onto your chest. Do up your shirt on the buttons.
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Hold a lighted match in your mouth .. until the roof of your mouth is burnt.
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Blood Unity Structure (After Brancusi's 'Endless Column')
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Have a branding iron made up with the word 'ARTIST'. Brand this word on your body.
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Sew a fish on your skin.
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Slash your wrists and arms. Smear the blood on your face.
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Pack your armpit with fish .. pour iodine into your armpit (Subjective Image With Fish & Iodine.)
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Drop a burning match on your chest.
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Using a sharp instrument cut around your thigh so that a leg ring is made.
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Stuff your nose with bread. Push matches into your nose. Ignite the matches.
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Reopen old wounds. Sew up the wounds.
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Slash your fingers .. let the blood fall on your eyes.
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[Staple four photographs of the sky to your leg]
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[Lick honey off a woman's face]
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[Pour honey onto a man and a woman's naked bodies and then rub your face in it]
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[Put a live fish into your nose and then splash iodine onto it]
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[Put sardines on the genitals of two men and two women and then pour molasses onto their mouths]
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The Emetics/Primary Vomit Red (I am Sick of Art), performance.
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[Wrap a fuse in a spiral around your leg and set it off]
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[Attach the wing of a white bird, with feathers, to your right hand and use it to stroke the stub of your left arm]
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[Blow graphite powder in an inverted triangle onto a woman's body just above her pubic hair. Then have her lean to her left, and fill out the triangle]
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[Put fat between your toes and use a lighted match to melt it]
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[Take charcoal from a burnt tree and use it to mark your chest with thick lines (as though an initiation mark)]