1st Edition
Gina Pane: Actions Through Time An Anthology
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.






