Article: "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979." (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA)

Without the body there is no act, no motion, no shiver, no urge; without the body there is no performance, no object on which the body leaves its traces, its funky residues. "Out of Actions" was a show about the body, what artists have done with the body from 1949 to 1979 seen through the ephemera that remain, an exhibition that in many ways was daunting and instructive as only dealings with the body can be. The show was also problematic because the actual body was nowhere to be found, so long gone in fact that Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy (whose early actions helped place a tradition of performance at the heart of things LA) made a point of curating a series of live ...

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