Ulay / Abramovic - Performances 1976-1988 - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum 1997

Over a period of twelve years, from 1976 to 1988, performance artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen) explored a personal and artistic fusion. Their performances are breathtaking, both spectacular and physically complex. They engaged them at the limits of the body, of its strength, resistance and exhaustion. Sometimes they were even truly dangerous, and very often extremely painful. From 1976 onwards, they will be the couple who, through their performances, seek to become “a two headed body”. Two distinct individuals interacting towards a single entity, “a body with two heads”, as she puts it!

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Ulay/Abramovic, Video installations 1976-1988 at the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, April 26-June 15, 1997.

134p - EN - 28,5x18,4cm - softcover - perfect condition