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Showing performance art is challenging if not a contradiction in terms, performance art is non-object-made art : it is not a thing but a movement, a mood, an energy, some sort of flux. It is both live and ephemeral. The recently inaugurated building designed by Odile Decq, Frac Bretagne (Regional Contemporary Art Fund) in Rennes graces Spanish-born artist Esther Ferrer.

CULTURE CRITICS
By Sean ROSE

Films and photographs document her many actions in the public space, e.g. a performance consisting of stopping cars by sitting in the middle thirteen zebra crossings in Madrid.

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