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Mike Parr b. 1945

Artist (Performance Artist),
Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
Artist (Printmaker),
Artist (Screen Artist)

Working across a range of media that includes performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, drypoint etching and photography, Mike Parr is regarded as one of the most successful Australian artists of his generation. Parr has realised over 1000 works within the context of his self-imposed 'Self-Portrait' series.

Tags: Performance art, Conceptual art, Body, Printmaking, Printmaker

Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

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Close the Concentration Camps

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Medium: performance

Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; photograph: Felizitas Parr

Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

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Forms of Independence

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Medium: video

Duration 16:29:00 minutes

Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

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The End of Nature

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Medium: video

Duration 36:43:00 minutes

Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

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Sex Murder of the Eye-Hand (They Should be Washed by Veal)

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Medium: charcoal and ink wash on paper

137.5 × 125.5 cm

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Organon I

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URL: http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=83044&View=LRG

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Reproduction zero

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URL: http://cs.nga.gov.au/Detail-LRG.cfm?IRN=81707&View=LRG

Courtesy of: Eva Breuer Art Dealer

Zastruga Self Portrait

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Medium: Oil crayon & charcoal on paper

69.5 × 100cm

Courtesy of: Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

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Cloacal Corridor (io Proté/O Vio Proto/O Vio Loto/O Théthé) Self Portrait as a Pair or Self Portrait as a Pun

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Medium: Charcoal, girault pastel and graphite on paper

4 panels, 195.5 × 276 cm each

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Cathartic action: social gestus No. 5 (

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Medium: Video
URL: http://scanlines.net/node/4290

Cathartic action: social gestus No …

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Rules and Displacements

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Installed in the Experimental Art Foundation basement, 1976

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Leg spiral

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URL: http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/artworks/exhibitions/img/parr.jpg

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Performances (1972-75)

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URL: http://scanlines.net/node/4289

Performances (1972-75) colour and black and white video, sound, 39min 30sec.
These performances are very much of the form of 'art by instruction’ originally used in 150 Programmes and Investigations.

Hold your breath for as long as possible.

Light a candle, hold your finger in the flame for as long as possible.

Push tacks into your leg . ...

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