Gina Pane: Actions Through Time
An Anthology
1st Edition
Published on 17. April 2026
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Hardback
358 pages
978-1-032-82877-0 (ISBN)
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Gina Pane (1939-1990) is acknowledged as one of the first artists to use her body as the medium for her practice through live works or Actions she began in the late 1960s.
She became well known for this highly charged body of work, particularly her 1970s live Actions that were meticulously orchestrated to communicate viscerally and visually, often incorporating the gesture of small cuts made into her skin, marking an indelible exchange between herself and the viewer. Pane's Actions became the subject of critical texts and theoretical analysis. Alongside newly translated interviews and writings by Gina Pane, this anthology presents a unique collection of contemporary and art historical texts. The anthology is compiled to track a chronological survey of the decades since the Actions took place in the 1970s and includes seminal writings that are translated into English for the first time. New writings and interviews with artists and curators illuminate Gina Pane's legacy and continuing significance in the present time.
The anthology is intended for a wide readership, from artists, art historians, performance artists, performance historians, students of art, history of art, art theory, choreography and photography, exhibition historians, art collectors, museum and gallery curators, visitors and employees.
She became well known for this highly charged body of work, particularly her 1970s live Actions that were meticulously orchestrated to communicate viscerally and visually, often incorporating the gesture of small cuts made into her skin, marking an indelible exchange between herself and the viewer. Pane's Actions became the subject of critical texts and theoretical analysis. Alongside newly translated interviews and writings by Gina Pane, this anthology presents a unique collection of contemporary and art historical texts. The anthology is compiled to track a chronological survey of the decades since the Actions took place in the 1970s and includes seminal writings that are translated into English for the first time. New writings and interviews with artists and curators illuminate Gina Pane's legacy and continuing significance in the present time.
The anthology is intended for a wide readership, from artists, art historians, performance artists, performance historians, students of art, history of art, art theory, choreography and photography, exhibition historians, art collectors, museum and gallery curators, visitors and employees.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis
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69
69 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 69 s/w Abbildungen
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Height: 280 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
820 gr
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Sophie Delpeux is a senior lecturer (HDR) in Art History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specialised in Performance Art and body representation history.
Alice Maude-Roxby is an artist, curator and writer specialising in performance, photography and feminist histories. She was Director of Research in Visual Arts at Middlesex University.
Alice Maude-Roxby is an artist, curator and writer specialising in performance, photography and feminist histories. She was Director of Research in Visual Arts at Middlesex University.
Content
List of Images
Acknowledgements
Anthology Introduction
Sophie Delpeux and Alice Maude-Roxby
Biography and Actions Index
Editors' Notes
Contributors' Biographies
Part I: Foundations (1973-1979)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1 The Body and Its Support Image for Non-Linguistic Communication
Gina Pane
2 Excerpts From L'art actuel en France
Anne Tronche
3 Performance of Concern: An Interview With Gina Pane
Effie Stephano
4 Notes on the Work of Gina Pane
François Pluchart
5 A Corporeal Humanism
Gilbert Gatellier
6 Letter to a Stranger
Gina Pane
7 Interview With Gina Pane
Aline Dallier
8 Gina Pane or the Angels' Debacle
Bernard Teyssèdre
9 Interview With Gina Pane
Irmeline Lebeer
10 Interview With Gina Pane
Dany Bloch
11 Injury/Death: Collective Body
Gina Pane
12 Excerpt From Metaphysics of the Everyday
Lea Vergine
13 Happening-Gina Pane at Beaubourg 36
Hervé Guibert
Image Insert (1965-1972) SOCIAL SCULPTURE AND ACTION: STUDIO-LAND-DOMESTIC SPACE
Introduction
Alice Maude-Roxby
Statement: Pierres déplacées
Gina Pane
Statement: Je
Gina Pane
IMAGES OF GINA PANE WORKS (1965-1972)
Excerpts from Action Pour Gina Pane: Pierre déplacées, Deuxième projet du silence, Je
François Bon
Part II: Propagation (1980-1998)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1 Action Work
Gina Pane
2 Partitions
Gilbert Lascault
3 Interview With Gina Pane
Bernard Marcadé
4 Gina Pane, the Moment of Rapture
Jean-Marie Touratier
5 Interview With Gina Pane
Catherine Lawless
6 The Scenographic Body
Anne Tronche
7 Excerpts From Contract With the Skin
Kathy O'Dell
Image Insert GINA PANE'S METHOD (1973-1974)
Introduction
Alice Maude-Roxby
Statement: Azione Sentimentale
Gina Pane
Excerpts From Gina Pane: Drawings
Blandine Chavanne
IMAGES OF GINA PANE WORKS (1973-1974)
Excerpt From Interview With Lisa Martin
Alice Maude-Roxby
Part III: Renewal (2000-2008)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1 A Singular Woman
Robert Fleck
2 Gina Pane's Witnesses: The Audience and Photography
Jennifer Blessing
3 Stigmata, Icons, and Reliquaries: Messages From St. Gina
Inge Linder-Gaillard
4 Excerpts from On Record: Advertising, Architecture and the Actions of Gina Pane
Alice Maude-Roxby and Françoise Masson
5 Interview With Jean-Hubert Martin
Julia Hountou
6 The Fabric of The World: Gina Pane's Cosmogony
Sophie Delpeux
Image Insert (1975-1978) GRAND NARRATIVES-COLOUR-SPACE-ACTION
Introduction
Alice Maude-Roxby
IMAGES OF GINA PANE WORKS (1975-1978)
Gina Pane at the Galerie De Appel
Ulrike Rosenbach
Excerpt From 'THEN AND NOW: PERFORMANCE ART IN HOLLAND'
Antje von Graevenitz
Part IV: Openings (2010-2024)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1. The Other as Host: Gina Pane's Je
Kiff Bamford
2 Sharing Her Presence
Sophie Delpeux
3 Excerpts From Reviving the Collective Body: Gina Pane's escalade non-anesthésiée
Frédérique Baumgartner
4 Communi(qu)er
Sophie Duplaix
5 Images = Images
Soft and Dull Like Snow: Re-Reading The Performance Works of Gina Pane
Stefanie Seibold
6 The Conversion of the Precious Blood: Gina Pane and Medieval Mysticism
Janig Bégoc
7 Becoming the Other: Gina Pane's Use of 'Androgynous Agency'
Sophie Delpeux
Part V: Exhibitions Dossier
Introduction 269
Alice Maude-Roxby
1 Excerpt From Review of Regarder Ailleurs
Effie Stephano
2 Excerpt From an Interview With Ursula Krinzinger
Stefanie Seibold and Patricia Gronzka
3 Bodyworks at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Lisa Beißwanger
4 Gina Pane in Bologna
Laura Iamurri
5 Excerpt From Polar Crossing
Chris Burden
6 Excerpt From Partitions
Gina Pane and Lea Vergine
7 Excerpt From Gina Pane's UK Tour: Curators' Conversation
8 Curating Gina Pane
Sophie Duplaix
9 Interview With Blandine Chavanne 286
Sophie Delpeux and Alice Maude-Roxby
10 Gina Pane: There Really Was a Before and an After.
Emma-Charlotte Gobry-Laurencin
11 On Parallel Practices: Interview With Dean Daderko
Alice Maude-Roxby
12 Excerpts from in the Beginning There Is an End: Approaching Gina Pane, Approaching Discours mou et mat
Malin Arnell
Conclusion
Afterword
1 Memories
Anne Rochette
2 Holding Gina Pane
Karen Finley
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Anthology Introduction
Sophie Delpeux and Alice Maude-Roxby
Biography and Actions Index
Editors' Notes
Contributors' Biographies
Part I: Foundations (1973-1979)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1 The Body and Its Support Image for Non-Linguistic Communication
Gina Pane
2 Excerpts From L'art actuel en France
Anne Tronche
3 Performance of Concern: An Interview With Gina Pane
Effie Stephano
4 Notes on the Work of Gina Pane
François Pluchart
5 A Corporeal Humanism
Gilbert Gatellier
6 Letter to a Stranger
Gina Pane
7 Interview With Gina Pane
Aline Dallier
8 Gina Pane or the Angels' Debacle
Bernard Teyssèdre
9 Interview With Gina Pane
Irmeline Lebeer
10 Interview With Gina Pane
Dany Bloch
11 Injury/Death: Collective Body
Gina Pane
12 Excerpt From Metaphysics of the Everyday
Lea Vergine
13 Happening-Gina Pane at Beaubourg 36
Hervé Guibert
Image Insert (1965-1972) SOCIAL SCULPTURE AND ACTION: STUDIO-LAND-DOMESTIC SPACE
Introduction
Alice Maude-Roxby
Statement: Pierres déplacées
Gina Pane
Statement: Je
Gina Pane
IMAGES OF GINA PANE WORKS (1965-1972)
Excerpts from Action Pour Gina Pane: Pierre déplacées, Deuxième projet du silence, Je
François Bon
Part II: Propagation (1980-1998)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1 Action Work
Gina Pane
2 Partitions
Gilbert Lascault
3 Interview With Gina Pane
Bernard Marcadé
4 Gina Pane, the Moment of Rapture
Jean-Marie Touratier
5 Interview With Gina Pane
Catherine Lawless
6 The Scenographic Body
Anne Tronche
7 Excerpts From Contract With the Skin
Kathy O'Dell
Image Insert GINA PANE'S METHOD (1973-1974)
Introduction
Alice Maude-Roxby
Statement: Azione Sentimentale
Gina Pane
Excerpts From Gina Pane: Drawings
Blandine Chavanne
IMAGES OF GINA PANE WORKS (1973-1974)
Excerpt From Interview With Lisa Martin
Alice Maude-Roxby
Part III: Renewal (2000-2008)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1 A Singular Woman
Robert Fleck
2 Gina Pane's Witnesses: The Audience and Photography
Jennifer Blessing
3 Stigmata, Icons, and Reliquaries: Messages From St. Gina
Inge Linder-Gaillard
4 Excerpts from On Record: Advertising, Architecture and the Actions of Gina Pane
Alice Maude-Roxby and Françoise Masson
5 Interview With Jean-Hubert Martin
Julia Hountou
6 The Fabric of The World: Gina Pane's Cosmogony
Sophie Delpeux
Image Insert (1975-1978) GRAND NARRATIVES-COLOUR-SPACE-ACTION
Introduction
Alice Maude-Roxby
IMAGES OF GINA PANE WORKS (1975-1978)
Gina Pane at the Galerie De Appel
Ulrike Rosenbach
Excerpt From 'THEN AND NOW: PERFORMANCE ART IN HOLLAND'
Antje von Graevenitz
Part IV: Openings (2010-2024)
Introduction
Sophie Delpeux
1. The Other as Host: Gina Pane's Je
Kiff Bamford
2 Sharing Her Presence
Sophie Delpeux
3 Excerpts From Reviving the Collective Body: Gina Pane's escalade non-anesthésiée
Frédérique Baumgartner
4 Communi(qu)er
Sophie Duplaix
5 Images = Images
Soft and Dull Like Snow: Re-Reading The Performance Works of Gina Pane
Stefanie Seibold
6 The Conversion of the Precious Blood: Gina Pane and Medieval Mysticism
Janig Bégoc
7 Becoming the Other: Gina Pane's Use of 'Androgynous Agency'
Sophie Delpeux
Part V: Exhibitions Dossier
Introduction 269
Alice Maude-Roxby
1 Excerpt From Review of Regarder Ailleurs
Effie Stephano
2 Excerpt From an Interview With Ursula Krinzinger
Stefanie Seibold and Patricia Gronzka
3 Bodyworks at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Lisa Beißwanger
4 Gina Pane in Bologna
Laura Iamurri
5 Excerpt From Polar Crossing
Chris Burden
6 Excerpt From Partitions
Gina Pane and Lea Vergine
7 Excerpt From Gina Pane's UK Tour: Curators' Conversation
8 Curating Gina Pane
Sophie Duplaix
9 Interview With Blandine Chavanne 286
Sophie Delpeux and Alice Maude-Roxby
10 Gina Pane: There Really Was a Before and an After.
Emma-Charlotte Gobry-Laurencin
11 On Parallel Practices: Interview With Dean Daderko
Alice Maude-Roxby
12 Excerpts from in the Beginning There Is an End: Approaching Gina Pane, Approaching Discours mou et mat
Malin Arnell
Conclusion
Afterword
1 Memories
Anne Rochette
2 Holding Gina Pane
Karen Finley
Bibliography
Index