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A Roving Performance Art Festival Works to Break Down Binaries
The 2018 edition of the Itinerant Performance Art Festival features works that imagine alternatives to conventional, binary identities and categories.
Performance Art
Test 2018 posts
A Night of Transmedia Performances and Computerized Music
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.
Art
Artists Fill Six-Story Istanbul House with 672 Hours of Performance Art
The house will become a research space and library in country where performance art remains underdeveloped, and many artists fear persecution.
In Brief
An Artist Is Rescued After Chaining Himself to a Marble Block for 19 Days
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.
Art
In One Artist's Body, the Legacies of Continental Trauma
Carlos Martiel continues his gripping, often devastating explorations of bodies marked by history, culture, and place with a performance at Y Gallery.
Art
The Alchemical World of a Performance Artist Who Plays with Fire
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.
Art
A Festival Aims to Foster Justice Through Performance and Collaboration
Just Situations, a 10-day festival and conference at venues in North Brooklyn, features nearly 60 artists and groups prodding participants on politics and performance.
Art
Falling in Love with a Felix Gonzalez-Torres Go-Go Dancer
During a recent visit to David Zwirner, I was transfixed by the dancer performing on a Gonzalez-Torres sculpture, so I decided to track him down.
Art
100 Hours of Neo-Domestic Performance Art at Glasshouse
The Neo-Domesticity Performance Art Festival features 35 endurance performances happening over the course of four days.
Art
A Viral Video Sums Up Art School
A video taken at CalArts and posted on Twitter yesterday beautifully distills art-world indifference.
In Brief
Russian Artist Arrives Nude in Glass Box at Met Gala, Gets Arrested
The stunt was the latest in a series of guerrilla performances that Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich began in 2015.
Art
The Culmination of a Crowdsourced, Operatic Performance Experiment
Panoply Performance Laboratory's crowd-sourced opera is entering its final acts.