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Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978)


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Tree Dance 1971, 9:32 min, b&w, silent, 16 mm film

For the exhibition Twenty-Six by Twenty Six at the Vassar College of Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York, Matta-Clark created a performance inspired by spring fertility rituals. He performed in a structure made of ladders, ropes and other materials, which he built at the top of a large tree.


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