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
Performance Art
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.
Shiraga Kazuo, Challenging Mud (Doro ni idomu)
Gordon Matta-Clark’s interventions explored modernist architecture and urban decay.
Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting
The artist asks us if maintaining can be as important as creating.
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Washing/Tracks/Maintenance: Outside (July 23, ...
Inserting live bodies into artworks unsettles the delusion that a universal perspective exists.
The Case for Performance Art
Is staring into the eyes of one of the world’s most renowned performance artists scary? Transcendent? Boring?
Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present
In this stalkery piece, Acconci questions space, time, and the human body on the streets of New York.
Vito Acconci, Following Piece
What happens when art intersects with life?
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