Ensemble: Performance, Video and Self-Portraits
"In general, there’s not much place for performance now. It looks like the sixties too much, it feels like the sixties did, it feels like it’s something from the past. I’m not sure why that is, except... Maybe the same applies to theater. (...) It looks too old, it looks like the past. I do performances in front of a camera quite often, and I perform to the camera, making videos—[Maria Thereza](http://ensembles.mhka.be/actors/maria-thereza-alves) and I work together on videos. I think of it as performance, but it doesn’t work for a live audience, it’s just for the television, or what I think of as “television.” And that doesn’t look like the past to me." [full text [here](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3194)]
Works

Self-Portrait, 1987
Jimmie Durham
Sculpture, canvas, wood, paint, feather, shell, turquoise, metal, 173 x 87 x 29 cm

Four Scenes for the British Army, 1988
Jimmie Durham
Performance

Crazy for Life, 1990
Jimmie Durham
Video

Savage, 1991
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance

Virginia/Veracruz (Madrid), 1992
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance

Virginia/Veracruz (London), 1992
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance

Virginia/Veracruz, 1992
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Performance

Europe, 1994-2011
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, digital photographs
The Man Who Had a Beautiful House, 1994
Julian Villaseñor, Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, dvd, 00:07:27

A Staff for the Center of the World in Siberia, 1995
Jimmie Durham
Performance

13, Rue Fenelon, 1995
Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham
Video, 00:30:00

Enough!, 1995
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, 00:02:40

Self-Portrait as Rosa Lévy, 1995-2006
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions

Collected Stones, 1995-2002
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, dvd, 00:24:13

Drawing performance, 1996
Jimmie Durham
Performance

Stoning the Refrigerator, 1996
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video

HTV, 1996
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, pal, 00:02:30

A Heavy Stone, 1996
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, pal, 00:01:00

A Stone from Metternich's House in Bohemia, 1996
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, pal, 00:00:30

Incident at Middelburg, 1996
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, pal, 00:01:12

Un projet à Lille, 1996-1997
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video

Pink Granite at Work, 1997
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, pal, 00:01:00

A stone Asleep in Bed at Home, 2000
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video

Stoneheart, 2001
Jimmie Durham
Performance
Fruit Table, 2001
Jimmie Durham
Video, 00:01:30

Public Transaction, 2002
Jimmie Durham
Performance

The Pursuit of Happiness, 2002
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, 35 mm, dvd, 00:12:00

Tocetea, 2003
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, dvd, 00:00:26

A Sculpture in Two Dimensions, 2004
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, 00:00:30
Smashing, 2004
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, 00:92:00

Self-Portrait Pretending to Be a Stone Statue of Myself, 2006
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions

Self-Portrait with Black Eye and Bruises, 2006
Jimmie Durham
Photography, ink, paper, 79 x 60 cm

Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Maria Thereza Alves as Terminator, 2006
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, ink, paper, 80,7 x 60,7 cm

Self-Portrait Pretending to Be my Mother as Played by Isabel Perera, 2006
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions

Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Maria Thereza Alves, 2006
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, ink, paper, variable dimensions

Grünewald, 2006
Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham
Video, 00:13:55

Painted Self-Portrait, 2007
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, acrylic, marker, ink, colour photograph, 83 x 60.5 cm

Untitled (performance at Reykjavik Experiment Marathon), 2008
Jimmie Durham
Performance

Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Euroman, 2008
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, ink, paper, 81 x 61 cm

Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Haim Steinbach as Played by Haim Steinbach, 2008
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Photography, ink, paper, 81 x 61 cm

Obsidiana, 2009
Jimmie Durham
Video, dvd, 00:05:43

Self-portrait with Traditional Scottish Kwilt, 2010
Jimmie Durham
Mixed Media, 100 x 3,5 x 85 cm

Towards Light
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video

Brazilian Bloodstone
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video

Nature Morte
Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
Video, pal, 00:00:45