1st Edition

Gina Pane: Actions Through Time An Anthology

By Sophie Delpeux, Alice Maude-Roxby Copyright 2026
358 Pages 69 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

358 Pages 69 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

358 Pages 69 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.