Part one
Wearing white(cream) I sit on the floor and lean into a straddled front stretch. Someone dressed in black pushes on my back with their foot for three or four minutes and walks away.
Performed in semi-public space(studio transitional space)

Part two
Wearing white(cream) I bend into a standing front stretch. Someone dressed in black binds me with belts in five places down my body and walk away(wrists to ankles, forearms to shins, neck to knees, upper back to thigh, lower back to thigh). I exit, still bound.
Performed in semi-public space(studio transitional space)

Part three
Wearing white(cream) I bend into a standing front stretch. I ask a bystander 'can you help me?', then 'I need to put these belts on tightly'. They bind me with belts in five places down my body(wrists to ankles, forearms to shins, neck to knees, upper back to thigh, lower back to thigh). I attempt to sit on the ground, bound, and shuffle into the corner under my desk. I stay like this for 6 and a half hours only speaking when I need help(can you help me? I need to tighten my belts. I need to know the time.) or when someone directly asks me a question, I only eat if someone offers to feed me, if someone offers to help me with something I either decline or ask them to rub tiger balm on me where I am sore.

Part four
Wearing black I raise into a handstand in-between two 'T'-walls. The walls are pushed together and I am pressed in-between them, upside-down. I stay like this until I cannot hold myself any longer.

Part five
Wearing black I hang upside down from a bar by my feet. I stay suspended like this until I cannot hold myself any longer.

http://www.yingmei-art.com/en/works/corner
http://www.yingmei-art.com/en/works/patience
http://www.yingmei-art.com/en/works/observer
http://www.yingmei-art.com/en/works/inbetween

I like the whole of corner, the other three seem to not fit with the ideas she talks about, or fit in a very obvious way.
I like the aesthetic though.

It gives a grim new meaning to the term body art. A leading contemporary Russian artist says he has perfected a technique to boil human corpses into crude oil from which he will create permanent sculptures, and he has already signed up willing volunteers.


Andrei Molodkin, who will represent Russia at this year's Venice Biennale, claims that after spending three to six months in a high-pressure machine, a corpse becomes oil that can be used to power cars or be moulded into a permanent memorial statue to sit on the mantelpiece.

His work is the ultimate extension of a growing trend for artists to use human bodies as art materials. The sculptor Marc Quinn made a study of his head from his frozen blood; Gilbert and George regularly use bodily fluids in their art, and Günther von Hagens's Body Worlds exhibition of preserved corpses is on at London's O2.
from: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/till-death-do-us-sculpt-russian-to-render-human-bodies-into-art-materials-1645363.html

also
http://www.frieze.com/issue/print_article/private_lives_public_gestures_2/
by Jan Verwoert

and
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/triangle/
Sanja Ivekovic

and
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue5/privateview5.htm
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/ondak/default.shtm

Roman Ondak

From urbancamouflage.de







Anton Lopo and Marina Abramovic

Q: Do you feel any level of cruelty in your workshops?
A: I don't think so, but I think it's possible that a student, upon reflection, realises that what may be called cruelty is just another necessary step in the learning experience.

Marina Abramovic

...Artists are generally very attached to their egos and they can pretend to be the centre of the world.

...The creative act is like giving birth, and this birth is in many cases very painful and sometimes even destructive.

Masochism
The urge to derive pleasure, esp. sexual gratification, from one's own pain or humiliation; the pursuit of such pleasure. Also in weakened sense: deliberate pursuit of or enthusiasm for an activity that appears to be painful, frustrating, or tedious. Cf. SADISM n., SADOMASOCHISM n.

Masochist
A person who exhibits or is given to masochism. Also in weakened sense: a person who enjoys doing something that appears painful or frustrating.

Masochistic
Of, relating to, resembling, or characterized by masochism; deriving enjoyment from one's own pain or humiliation.





and one thats not digging..










Charlie Chaplins' grandaughter


Olga Arafieva


Nadam Guerra