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Heinz Weiss
?–2010
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Performance ArtPerformance Art
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Heinz Weiss was a German performance artist whose practice emerged in the post-war European avant-garde, treating live action, gesture, and bodily intervention as primary artistic materials. Active from the mid-twentieth century onward, his work positioned the body itself as the site of artistic enquiry rather than a vehicle for representation. Weiss worked within the performance art movement that developed across Europe in the 1960s and beyond.
Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 40% · Updated 2mo ago
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