Performance art differs from traditional theater in its rejection of a clear narrative, use of random or chance-based structures, and direct appeal to the audience.
c. 1960 - present
Performance art differs from traditional theater in its rejection of a clear narrative, use of random or chance-based structures, and direct appeal to the audience.
c. 1960 - present
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What makes a destroyed piano a work of art?
Black Mountain College was a highly influential school founded in North Carolina, USA, in 1933 where teaching was experimental and committed to an interdisciplinary approach
A single dramatic overhead shot captures the artist covered in a viscous mud, struggling to free his left leg from the thickly piled muck atop which he lies.
Gordon Matta-Clark’s interventions explored modernist architecture and urban decay.
The artist asks us if maintaining can be as important as creating.
Inserting live bodies into artworks unsettles the delusion that a universal perspective exists.
Is staring into the eyes of one of the world’s most renowned performance artists scary? Transcendent? Boring?
In this stalkery piece, Acconci questions space, time, and the human body on the streets of New York.