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Audience Members Cut Iranian Artist’s Hair in Moving Performance

Avatar photo by Emily Wilson January 31, 2023February 1, 2023

At San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Mobina Nouri took scissors to her own strands and invited others to do the same.

Posted inPerformance

Dancing Toward Peace and Healing

by Sheila Regan November 15, 2022November 22, 2022

In She Who Lives on the Road to War, Rosy Simas combines installation and performance to address the immense losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Posted inOpinion

Pissing on Faces or When Women Behave Badly

Avatar photo by Betsy Huete April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

When Sophia Urista urinated on an audience member onstage, her act was framed and understood in a particularly gendered way.

Posted inBooks

Why an Italian Village Tied Itself to a Mountain

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford September 7, 2021September 7, 2021

The event was devised by artist Maria Lai and involved almost all of Ulassai’s 1,000 inhabitants and required nearly 17 miles of light blue denim ribbon.

Posted inOpinion

Fun Facts I Learned from a Year of Producing No Garbage

Avatar photo by Eve Schaub August 26, 2021August 27, 2021

We’ve all seen the zero wasters on Instagram showing off their mason jars full of a year’s worth of trash. But most people aren’t going to be willing or able to change their lifestyles to that degree.

Posted inNews

How Many Latinx Women Artists Have Had Solo Shows At MoMA PS1?

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

In her performance last weekend, Yali Romagoza asked difficult questions about the museum’s representation of Latinx artists.

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At Boss Witch, Art Performances Will Thrive in Nature

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino June 6, 2021June 4, 2021

Launching this month in Los Angeles, Boss Witch will support site-specific performances in Joshua Tree, Mono Lake, and more.

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Coco Fusco Enlists Cuban Artists to Recite Heberto Padilla’s Forced Confessions

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Fifty years ago, poet Heberto Padilla was forced to publicly denounce himself and his friends as counterrevolutionaries.

Posted inArt

Marina Abramović Enhances Her Brand

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan October 20, 2020November 5, 2020

Abramović’s interests lie more with perpetuating herself as a product than with what she actually expresses through her art.

Posted inArt

Autumn Knight Responds to the “Gaslighting of the Current Moment” in New Performance Series

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell July 22, 2020November 5, 2020

For Knight, whose work slyly critiques the raced, gendered, and classed nature of power, a residency at the Kitchen will provide an opportunity to use the empty building as a collaborator.

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Using Humor, Two Artists Suggest We Can Change the Present (Not Just the Future)

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 16, 2020November 5, 2020

Inspired by a Selena song, Arisleyda Dilone and Camilo Godoy’s upcoming performance invokes Latinx telenovela scripts, lullabies, and more to explore themes of self-love, longing, and desire.

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Artist Guadalupe Maravilla Is Centering Mutual Aid and Indigenous Medicinal Practices

Avatar photo by danilo machado May 29, 2020

Maravilla’s efforts, which include raising money and distributing groceries to undocumented communities, are one example of efforts directly addressing communities of color disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

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