Performance Art
Crawling as art
This weekend in New York City, artist Pope.L organized a “group crawl" along a 1.5 mile route from Seravalli Playground in the West Village to Union Square. 140 people participated. Pope.L wasn't one of them. He "walked alongside the crawlers for the duration of the performance, offering support and chatting with viewers."Over the years, however, Pope.L has personally done a lot of crawling... turning it into an artform. From his wikipedia page:
The Great White Way - source Wikipedia
Tompkins Square Crawl (1991) - source Forbes
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 22, 2019 -
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Category: Performance Art
Steamboat Springs Ski Band
Can they be said to be a "marching" band, or not?Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 21, 2019 -
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Category: Music, Seasonal, Performance Art, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
The Handsome Little Devils
Okay, artists are often intentionally weird, but some are weirder than others.
Their home page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 03, 2019 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Performance Art
Alastair MacLennan
Let us know how long you last.His Wikipedia page.
Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Johnston : Ash She He from arts-news on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 27, 2019 -
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Category: Performance Art
The Trainee, by Pilvi Takala
Finnish performance artist Pilvi Takala got permission to pose as a trainee for a month at the accounting firm Deloitte. What she wanted to find out was how people at the firm would react if she did absolutely nothing... if she just sat at an empty desk all day staring into space. Predictably, the office workers grew increasingly perplexed by her inactivity, as can be seen in the video below.More info from her website:
What provokes people about this ‘non-doing’, aside from the strangeness, is the element of resistance. The non-doing person isn’t committed to any activity, so they have the potential for anything. It is non-doing that lacks a place in the general order of things, and thus it is a threat to order. It is easy to root out any ongoing anti-order activity, but the potential for anything is a continual stimulus without a solution.
I'm guessing her performance was inspired by Herman Melville's classic short story, Bartleby the Scrivener.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 16, 2019 -
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Category: Work and Vocational Training, Performance Art
Rosa Hernandez: The Cleaning Lady
When San Diego performance artist Claudio Cano does her act, much of the audience isn’t aware that she’s actually performing, because her performance consists of dressing up as a Latina maid (whom she calls Rosa Hernandez) and sweeping or mopping the floor of art galleries. She notes that people in the galleries will often complain to the front desk about the maid cleaning while they're trying to look at the art, unaware that the "maid" is part of the art.Cano also sometimes performs outside, where, in her maid outfit, she does stand out more. But even then, she notes, people rarely pay much heed to her, seeming to go out of their way to avoid her.
More info: ClaudiaCano.com, Only Here Podcast
Cano performing at SDSU Downtown Gallery
Performing at Oceanside Pier
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jun 27, 2019 -
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Category: Jobs and Occupations, Performance Art
RIP Carolee Schneeman
Her obit.Her Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 08, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Pop Art, Body, Obituaries
Prince Leonard Casley, RIP
Full article here.
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 14, 2019 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Curmudgeons and Contrarianism, Government, Unauthorized Dwellings, Outsider Art, Performance Art, Foreign Customs, Obituaries, 1970s
Mary Worth, the Full Version
This is an experiment where the mise en scene of the comic strip is done directly to film. MADE BY: stephanie barber, peter barrickman, sara boland, tate bunker, theresa columbus, yasuhuhiro ikeguchi, anna johnson, annie killelea, didier leplae, xav leplae, doug schall, naomi wyoming.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 04, 2019 -
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Category: Comics, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Performance Art, Surrealism
Singing at the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian has bought its first piece of performance art. Which means that if you visit the Hirshhorn’s sculpture garden you may find that a young woman will suddenly start singing while following you around.The performance piece, titled This You, is the creation of Tino Sehgal, though he doesn't perform it. There are four women who do that, in shifts.
Sometimes the performers will abruptly stop singing in order to state the title of the performance piece: “This You, Tino Sehgal, 2006.” And then they'll start singing again.
More info: Smithsonian Mag, Hirshhorn
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 14, 2018 -
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Category: Museums, Music, Performance Art
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