Exit Art in strange York City.

Exit Art in strange York City, a non-profit interdisciplinary laboratory for contemporary civilization is presenting "Body and the East," a overlook of the history of carcass art performances in the Soviet Union and former Eastern Bloc from the 1960 to the instant Works that reflect a changing political environment are included in the exhibition which is organized into 14 sections, each representing a native land in Eastern Europe. "Body and the East" explores the universal of "otherness" and the application of western ideals in the East. The performances took place in private apartments along with public spaces including youth center alternative galleries and scholar cultural centers. "Rather than focus[ing] forward 'otherness' in this exhibition, we have examined this art from the vantage point of its cultural-historical characteristics, including those it shares with Europe" Zdenka Badovinac, throw out curator and director of the Museum of late Art in Ljublijana, Slovenia, stated. "Certainly the work shown here bears a stron g relationship to the issues and ideas that have traditionally encircleed body art and performance art practices." The exhibition consists of from one side of to the other 200 body action and performance pieces that involve video and photography. Along with these media works, drawings, writings and other archival materials are included. Marina Abramovic in Yugoslavia, Karel Miler and Petr Stembera in the Czech Republic, the employment Ars group in Lithuania, Tibor Hajas in Hungary, Tadeusz Kantor in Poland, Komar & Melamid, the change GROUP and Alexander Yulikov in Russia are among the 80 artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia take the part ofed in the exhibition....

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