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Because the child cannot always make it to the lab, Pollack stores the lice in a hand-made chamber strapped around his forearm. The parasites have free reign to his blood and are healthily fed until they can be properly isolated and studied...
...Gallery. According to RoseLee Goldberg in Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, Kaprow built three small rooms in a loft, filled them with chairs, and herded the audience from room to room showing them disjointed actions like a woman standing still “for ten seconds, left forearm raised, pointing to the floor” or two “performers reciting monosyllabic words.” Kaprow thought that the audience’s presence, interactions, or observations completed his pieces. From then on, a “happening” has referred to a work...
...among the slender tips of stalactites, the torch light suddenly catches splashes of color on the chamber's far side. There are about 15 stencils, some in such a rich russet they almost glow against the pale limestone, silhouettes of adult hands both left and right, one with a forearm also stenciled, several others with curiously stunted splayed fingers, and some partly obscured by a serrated fringe of stalactites. The unmistakable outline of a child's hand sits slightly apart from and lower than the others, so vivid that it might have been finished this morning...
...endure a struggle. We did wind sprints, jogs broken up with calisthenics and a three-mile run through the rain. We kicked, punched and kneed one another through a thick pad. At one point, as I held my body in a Pilates position--sideways, supported by only my forearm and the side of my foot--I wondered where all the water on the concrete floor had come from. It was just sweat pouring off my face...
Extremities numbed, uncorking the weakest throw shivers ligaments from the forearm to the elbow, creaks the joints, and beckons the piercing winds—in all, a solemn sacrifice of “enjoyment” for the sobering sake of arm upkeep...