1997, PS122, NYC, City of Women, Ljubljana, Kaaitheater, Brussels
A performance project for which I chose 8 artists and asked them to tell me what to do for 10 minutes each, therefore creating 80 minutes of material which then became BLANKET. Each artist approached the proposition differently; some choosing to have complete control while others just offered creative suggestions. All eight artists were challenged to remove themselves from their usual medium and use my performative mind and body to carry out any task they wanted to
command. I appropriated these ideas to become a real-time exquisite corpse and also the organizer of the folds that hid but unified the contrasting aesthetics of the artists that I had chosen.
The eight artists were as follows:
Sylvie Fleury (Geneva)
Richard Kern (NYC)
Romaine Slocombe (Paris)
Aphex Twin/Richard D. James (London)
Richard Foreman (NYC)
Viktor&Rolf (Amsterdam)
Julia Sher (NYC)
Paul McCarthy (LA).
Bruce Hainley, “Best of the ‘90s - Claude Wampler,” Artforum, December 1999
Tom Murrin, “Merry Prankster - The Canny and Controversial Claude Wampler,” Paper, February 1999
Peter Plagens, “Claude Wampler- High Performance,”, Newsweek, January 25, 1999
Peter Plagens, “Stage Fright,” Artforum, January 1999
Wayne Koestenbaum, “The Best of 1998”, Artforum, December 1998
Peter Plagens, “The Best of 1998”, Artforum, December 1998
RoseLee Goldberg, Performance: Live Art Since the 1960ties, Harry N. Abrams, 1998
E.E.F. “Ein dringendes Bedurfnis”, Sud Zeitung, July 1998
Holland Cotter, “Bathroom”, New York Times, June 26, 1998
David Rimanelli, “Bathroom”, New Yorker, July 6, 1998
RoseLee Goldberg, “Blanket, the surface of her”, Artforum, September 1997
Kim Levin, “Fair Play”, Village Voice, May 29, 1997
Steven Druckman, “Send in the Claude”, Village Voice, April 22,1997