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Going to Extremes
Artist/Author: Dorothy Max Prior | Reference: A0411 | Type: Article

Transgression and transformation, pastiche and pasties – as Dorothy Max Prior loses herself in the world of burlesque performance.

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Saint Orlan: Ritual as Violent Spectacle and Cultural Criticism
Artist/Author: Orlan, Alyda Faber | Reference: A0386 | ISBN: 0-262-75805-9 | Type: Article

The French performance artist’s practice of self-directed violence creates a spectacle that violates the viewer and establishes Orlan’s body as “a site of public debate.” Her work radically exposes the violence of patriarchically established “beauty standards.”

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Raven
Artist/Author: Michelle Horacek | Reference: D0110 | Type: DVD

Performance documentation, 2010.

The performer marks a sacred space. She dons a Raven headdress. As she steps into the sacred space she begins a ritual of transformation.

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Trans-Acts Act Two
Artist/Author: Julia Bardsley | Reference: D1238 | Type: DVD

Act Two: Transformation. Installation into Performance by Julia Bardsley. www.juliabardsley.net

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Theatre of Operations
Artist/Author: Orlan | Reference: A0208 | Type: Article
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