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L. Wijers (1996)
Writing As Sculpture: 1978-1987
L. Wijers, C. Tisdall, M. Kremer, Tony Maas, D. Bos, Ron Mittenburg, Geert Thijs, B. Jansen, J. Pijnappel, Fred Wagemans, Maud Struyvenberg, Pietje Tegenbosch, Diana Stigter, Paul Groot, Leontine Coelewij, Joshua Decter, Ysbrand Veelen (1990)
Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy
(1997)
The Death of the Artist: Extreme Performances in the Art of the 20th century,
(1977)
d’Armagnac performed at the International Performance
APPROPRIATE ENDING Ben dâArmagnacâs Last Performance Chris Thompson IN MEMORIAM I n a few moments the Theater aan de Rijn in Arnhem would be full of people who had come to attend the next session of the Behavior Workshop, a ï¬ve-day event that included performances and talks by Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Carolee Schneemann, and a series of related workshops, dialogues, and political debates (Thursday, September 28 through Wednesday, October 3, 1978). Now, just before noon on Saturday, the room was empty except for Beuys, his friend the Dutch artist and writer Louwrien Wijers, and the ghost of Bernard (Ben) dâArmagnac. Two days before, on Thursday evening, September 28, dâArmagnac had fallen and hit his head on the side of his houseboat, been knocked unconscious, and had drowned in the water at the corner of the canals Herengracht and Brouwersgracht. A convex mirror, attached to the wall so that boat pilots can see oncoming vessels coming around the corner, today serves as a kind of makeshift memorial marking the site of his death. Wijers recalled that Friday morning his wife Johanna noticed âmany people looking over the railing of the bridge. She looked in the water,
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: Sep 1, 2004
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