Into the night – polaroid

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So dark… passing through a difficult path right now. This series is dedicated to a couple of people… But most of all to Chuck! I wish you all the best and a safe recovery! Quick travel and send you loads of good energy! I am thinking of you! Sienna, I am with you! I hope and prey all goes well! It’s been difficult for us all! We will get through it! Love. I.

Wake for James Lee Byars – performance – day 3 – of stillness in time

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The performance has come to an end. Another effort is over. The installation will be present in the space until

Wake for James Lee Byars – performance – day 2 – gold and black masked

Extract from “James Lee Byars – the Epitaph of con. art is which questions have disappeared” – Edited by Carl Haenlein – Kestner Gesellschaft 1999:

“… The shimmering objects which he covered with golden surfaces, have become agents of a light which – according to the unshakable certainty of the artist – will change the

Wake for James Lee Byars – performance – day 1 – of darkness and future past

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The first five hours of the first day of performing “Wake for James Lee Byars” went very well. It was the first time I was performing a tribute to another artist and it was the first time I

WAKE FOR JAMES LEE BYARS – performance – the death of James Lee Byars

I begin with “the death of James Lee Byars”. This performance was executed in 1994 in Brussels and in Venice, then, in 1996 the performance “666″, in the night between 25th and 26th October at the Dome in Cologne. These were “perfect deaths”… as was

WAKE FOR JAMES LEE BYARS – performance text

Ivan Civic – wake for James Lee Byars                                                                                                                                                                      Performance in the Grimm Museum in Fichtestrasse 2 – Berlin – Germany

Perfromance duration: 3 days

Beginning: November 9th 2010 at 14:00 to 19:00                                                                                                                                             Wednesday  November 10th from14:00 to 19:00                                                                                                                                                    Thursday, November 11th from 19:30 to midnight

Ivan Civic will be performing his first

IVAN CIVIC – NEW PERFORMANCE – Tribute to JAMES LEE BYARS – coming next week!

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Dear people… next week I will be moving on. After a long performance at the Württembergischer Kunstverein, I will move to the “Grimm museum” in Berlin and will have a mini artist residency there, as well as a short performance of three to four days. Hope you all will be there. It will be a performance of five hours a day. No interruptions. The performance will begin on tuesday, november 9th 2010 at 14:00 and will go each day from 14:00 to 19:00… five hours a day.