Dennis Oppenheim

Dennis Oppenheim's conceptual artworks include performance, sculpture, and photographs. In the early 1970s, he was in the vangard of artists using film and video in relation to performance. In a series of works produced between 1970 and 1974, Oppenheim used his body as a site to challenge the self, exploring personal risk, transformation, and communication through ritualistic performance actions and interactions. full biography

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Program 1: Aspen Projects

30 min, b&w and color, silent

Material Interchange

1970, 2:44 min, b&w, silent

Identity Transfer

1970, 1 min, b&w, silent

Rocked Hand

1970, 3:34 min, color, silent, 8mm film on video

Compression: Fern #1

1970, 5:46 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

Pressure Piece #1

1970, 1:40 min, color, silent

Glassed Hand

1970, 2:56 min, color, silent

Compression: Poison Oak

1970, 2:46 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

Compression: Fern #2

1970, 5:22 min, color, silent, 16 mm film on video

Leafed Hand

1970, 3:44 min, color, silent

Program 2

14:56 min, b&w and color, silent

Extended Armour

1970, 2:08 min, b&w, silent

Gingerbread Man

1970, 1:42 min, b&w, silent

Nail Sharpening

1970, 2:58 min, b&w, silent

Towards Becoming A Devil

1970, 2:19 min, b&w, silent

Rocked Stomach

1970, 2:48 min, color, silent

Fusion: Tooth and Nail

1970, 2:58 min, color, silent

Program 3

24:30 min, b&w and color, sound

Brush

1973, 4:56 min, color, sound

I'm Failing

1972-73, 1:48 min, color, sound

My Father's Socks

1972, 5:50 min, b&w, sound

Mittens

1974, 4:21 min, b&w, sound

Disappear

1972, 5:57 min, b&w, sound

Program 4

44:50 min, b&w, silent

Vibration #1

1971, 13:30 min, b&w, silent

Vibration #2

1972, 11:24 min, b&w, silent

2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Returning to a Past State)

1971, 7:53 min, b&w, silent

2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Advancing to a Future State)

1971, 11:55 min, b&w, silent

Program 5

37:45 min, b&w and color, silent

Air Pressure (Hand)

1971, 5:25 min, color, silent

Lead Sink for Sebastian

1970, 4:42 min, color, silent

Nail Sharpening

1970, 6:02 min, color, silent

Gingerbread Man

1970-71, 8:45 min, b&w, silent

Fusion: Tooth and Nail

1970, 12:03 min, color, silent

Program 6

27:18 min, b&w and color, silent

Forming Sounds

1971, 7:14 min, b&w, silent

2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Advancing to Future State)

1971, 2:48 min, color, silent

2 Stage Transfer Drawing (Returning to a Past State)

1971, 2:57 min, color, silent

A Feedback Situation

1971, 3:02 min, color, silent

3 Stage Transfer Drawing

1972, 3:07 min, color, silent

Two Stage Transfer Drawing (Returning to a Past State)

1971, 3 min, color, silent

Objectified Counter Forces

1971, 2:06 min, color, silent

Shadow Project

1971, 3:04 min, color, silent