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Raging in the Pandemic’s Grip

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli May 16, 2020May 15, 2020

Sanja Latinović’s “Abandoned” pierces our self-protective veil with a glimpse of COVID’s raw truth.

Posted inOpinion

Case Dismissed: On Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s Arrest and Release

Avatar photo by Coco Fusco April 22, 2020April 22, 2020

The artist has been detained over 20 times in two years. But this time, his colleagues on the island mobilized in his defense — and that made all the difference.

Posted inIn Brief

Performance Space in Manhattan Will Be Run Entirely by Artists for a Year

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 22, 2020January 23, 2020

A cohort of artists and collectives will have “full transparency into the organization’s inner workings” and control of its annual production budget to pay their own wages and develop programs.

Posted inPerformance

Mourning through Performance, or Performative Mourning?

by Cassie Packard November 27, 2019December 6, 2019

At Performa, Huang Po-Chih and Su Hui-Yu each staged theatrical productions concerning collective mourning and memorialization. Yet while Su built upon his own relationship to a story of loss, Huang seemed to impose himself upon someone else’s.

Posted inArt

From Marina Abramović to Carlos Martiel, a Tradition of Self-Harm in Performance Art

Avatar photo by Chris Dupuis April 5, 2019April 5, 2019

Nearly five decades since Chris Burden and Marina Abramović began their explorations, an emerging crop of artists are re-envisioning artistic self-harm in both methodology and intent.

Posted inOpinion

The Performance Art of Congressional Protest

Avatar photo by Zachary Small September 7, 2018September 10, 2018

How do we analyze the frenetic outbursts at Wednesday’s Congressional hearings through the lens of aesthetic protest.

Verónica Peña (photo courtesy of the artist for ITINERANT 2018)
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A Roving Performance Art Festival Works to Break Down Binaries

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 22, 2018May 21, 2018

The 2018 edition of the Itinerant Performance Art Festival features works that imagine alternatives to conventional, binary identities and categories.

A performance by Angie Eng (photo by Joshua Kristal)
Posted inArt

A Night of Transmedia Performances and Computerized Music

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 20, 2018

From a bio-electrical instrument triggered by changes in muscle tension to a satirical monument-smashing rampage, Angie Eng has curated an enticing performance program at Roulette.

Posted inArt

Artists Fill Six-Story Istanbul House with 672 Hours of Performance Art

by Jennifer Hattam March 15, 2018

The house will become a research space and library in country where performance art remains underdeveloped, and many artists fear persecution.

Posted inIn Brief

An Artist Is Rescued After Chaining Himself to a Marble Block for 19 Days

by Claire Voon December 1, 2017

After attempting to chisel away at the four-ton block of marble, the Belgian artist Mikes Poppe was rescued from his heavy metaphor for the weight of tradition.

Posted inArt

In One Artist’s Body, the Legacies of Continental Trauma

Avatar photo by Laila Pedro November 21, 2017November 22, 2017

Carlos Martiel continues his gripping, often devastating explorations of bodies marked by history, culture, and place with a performance at Y Gallery.

Posted inArt

The Alchemical World of a Performance Artist Who Plays with Fire

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 21, 2017July 21, 2017

Miao Jiaxin — best known for a work that invited strangers to Airbnb a cage in his apartment — lit a room up with fire at the Just Situations performance festival.

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