Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Rumi
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Interview Short Contributions Works
Timea Andrea Lelik
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Short Contributions
Works
152
Charlemagne Palestine
On Meeting Ulay and Marina
Maria Rus Bojan
Preface Breaking the Norms: Poetics of Provocation
Works 1975
157 158
49 Auto-Portrait
162
50 Duel I
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Duel II 52 GEN.E.T.RATION ULTIMA RATIO 54 Aphorism 58 The Metamorphosis of a Canal 60 A’dam Between 66 White Bride 68 Soliloquy 70 S’he
Alessandro Cassin
Ulay on Ulay
Foreword to the Interview 84 On Water: We Are 70% Water, Our Brains Are 90% Water! 88 Early Works: Ephemeral, Intimate Actions, with 83
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No Audience, Arrested in Time through the Polaroid FOTOTOT: Taking Authority Away from Photography
House
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Silvio Wolf
On the Aura of Ulay and Marina Laurie Anderson
On Driving in Circles
More on Relation Work: Documenting Performance Documenta 6, 1977 188 On Religion, Spirituality and Nature: 177 184
Looking Within and Without
189
Finding Identity: Unlearning
98 97
102 106 108 110 112 100
Works 1973 – 1974
Renais sense Aphorism
Pa’Ulay
Diamond Plane
Red Venus
Dutch TV
Art Making as Identity Search Animism, Buddhism, Beckett and Cage 229 On Chemotherapy: Smelling Like a Baby 231 The Central Australian Desert: Memory of a Dreamtime 234 Nightsea Crossing: A Man, a Woman, Two Chairs, That’s It 239 Women 226
Talking about Similarity 208 Relation in Movement 210 Relation in Time 212 AAA-AAA 215 Incision 216 Charged Space 218 Work Relation 220 The Brink 222 Installation One 224 Rest of Energy 206
225
On Polaroid
Touch
to a Situation
Death of a Transvestite
John Reuter
Works 1976 – 1980
FOTOTOT I 197 FOTOTOT II 200 Relation in Space 202 There is a Criminal 193
to Art – Corresponding
S’he
Relation Work: Symbiosis Creates ‘the Third’ 117 Berlin. There Is a Criminal Touch to Art 124 Polaroid and Photography as a Second Skin 129
Dunes
113
Untitled
Exchange of Identity Duel IV 164 Soliloquy 168 Keine Möglichkeit 2 Platz wunden
Paula
Works 1970 – 1973
15
149 Face Forward: Ulay’s Portraits
Works 1974 – 1975
Father & Son 134 Bene Agere (In Her Shoes) 136 Anagrammatic Body Aphorisms 140 Anagrammatic Aphorisms 144 Retouching Bruises 133
241
Alessandro Cassin
Marina Abramovic´ on Ulay
16
Essay / Interview
254 256 245
Interview / Appendix
Works 1981 – 1986
Nightsea Crossing Positive Zero
373
Short Contributions
Lena Pislak
Letter
Constructive Anarchy Photogene and Other Projects 380 Large Format Polaroid 387 Hoarding, Preserving and Collecting One’s Work 388 In the Australian Desert: Learning to Be a ‘Calm Rabbit’
Modus Vivendi
377 378
Unknown Works from the 1970’s America: An Ambiguous Flirt 274 MoMA Opens to Performance: Marina’s Retrospective 277 Walking Toward Separation 265 268
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Works 1986 – 1989
Friday – Saturday Die Mond, der Sonne 284 Saturday (triptych) 286 Fragilissimo 288 Tuesday – Saturday 290 Wednesday – Saturday 292 Saturday 294 Chang Cheng Nei Wai 296 China Red, Northern
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The The
The End of the Partnership with Marina Abramović:
provinces
329
A Misfit and Up to His Neck in Water
334 338 346 348 333
349
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Vanitas
520
Untitled
358 370 372 357
Works 2000 – 2012
Portraits of Ethnics 428 7 in a Boat 430 Cursives & Radicals (diptych) 432 I am Other 436 Johnny 438 WE Emerge 442 Google Water Goblins 444 Patagonia 448 Whose Water Is It? 452 FOTOTOT 454 Sweet Water Salt Water 456 Self-Portrait 425
Life & Work Life & Work: Ulay, Curriculum Vitae 529 Index 534 Cross-references Images and Text, Credits of the Images,
Long Playing Record
On the Covered Images
Authors, Acknowledgements 536 Colophon
Ulay and Photography
Self-Portrait
Thomas McEvilley
Works 1990 – 1993
Water for the Dead
Drop Shadow
Watuma Tarruru Tjungarrayi Goes to Amsterdam Solo Performances: The Psychology of the Audience 415 Performance Then and Now: From Garages to White Cubes 420 Peace Warrior 421 Performing Light 423 Confronting Illness, More on Water
Tevž Logar
uxembourg Portraits I & II L Lichaamstaal
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Dismantling the ‘Institution’ 320 Photography, Again 321 A Son Re-performs His Father 323 On Being a Father (An Orphan Becomes a Father) 325 Teaching Art: Is Art Teachable? 326 Moldova: I Am Not a Photographer After All
406 400
Yellow and
Cyan?
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Great Wall Walk – the meeting Lovers
Works 1997 – 1999
Aboriginal Afterimages 398 Who’s Afraid of Magenta, 393
along the Great Wall of China
Works
Contents
535 Works 1994 – 1997
Fortress Europe Berlin Afterimages Women Inferno Copy Reality