"I don't rehearse, because performance art is not about rehearsal; that's what makes it different from theater."
Alok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist. In their oral history, Alok describes growing up in College Station, TX, connecting with activists and artists during college in California and subsequently in New York, their experiences touring across the world as a performance artist, and their journey of navigating gender through poetry, activism and fashion. CW: Assault
As she funds her new school, here's a 26-letter guide to the heroic performance artist
If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard from me since spring, it’s because a lot has been going on with Bagtazo. But today I’m finally back to tell you about Yves Klein. While scrolling through my Instagram feed recently, I came across a post in which someone had basically recreated Yves Klein’s
Read about the work of American-Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh, renowned for his extremely long and difficult performance pieces.
An ugly lawsuit behind them, the duo reunited at the Louisiana Museum.
Combining poetry, music, theatre, film, and mechanics, the six-part exhibition Rebecca Horn. Théâtre des métamorphoses at Centre Pompidou-Metz presents the bodily extensions, chimeras, and surrealistic automatons of artist Rebecca Horn (born in 1944).
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For 90 days, the then-lovers of 12 years walked from opposite sides of the Great Wall of China and met in the middle to break-up
Trailblazing performance artist Marina Abramovic has sat in silence for 700 hours, enacted her own funeral, scrubbed blood from bones, carved a pentagram into her stomach with razor blades and lay on a crucifix of ice. For this summer’s 512 Hours at the Serpentine Gallery, she is doing something completely different, she tells Kara Manning
Lisa Bufano lost her legs and her fingers from a staph infection when she was 21. The award-winning artist recently premiered a modern dance piece, Five Open Mouths, about coming to terms with her body as it is.
Pa, the horses got out of the barn again, and danged if they don't appear to have passed through the Museum of Natural History on their way to Grand Central.
world renowned italian pianist and composer ludovico einaudi has performed a historic concert, set on a floating platform in the arctic ocean.
L.A.'s clay artists are using the medium to create astounding new contemporary works.
In due minuti vi raccontiamo la storia dell'artista serba, "nonna" della performance art.
A guide to the most famous works of political performance art by artist and activist Tania Bruguera.
Percorrere la Muraglia Cinese per dirsi addio e farne una performance passata alla storia
