RIP Carolee Schneeman

Her obit.

Her Wikipedia page.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 08, 2019 - Comments (0)
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 - Comments (0)
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 - Comments (1)
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 - Comments (1)
Category: Museums, Music, Performance Art

Mat Fraser’s “Cabinet of Curiosities”

The explanation is here.

Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 04, 2018 - Comments (1)
Category: Body, Medicine, Museums, Performance Art, Twenty-first Century

Pop Art

"Vital Capacity" by performance artist William Lamson, in which he battles black balloons. There's a longer, larger version of the video here (but not embeddable).

His website
Brief wikipedia article about him

Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 01, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Performance Art, Pop Art

Hunting Groceries

For one week in 1992, German artist Christian Jankowski "hunted" his groceries in the supermarket with a bow and arrow. From his website:


Imagine trying to go into a supermarket with a bow and arrow nowadays to hunt your groceries.

Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 31, 2018 - Comments (6)
Category: Food, Shopping, Performance Art, 1990s

Squished Cockroach

In order to confront the stereotype of the "perceived passiveness of Asian people," the artist who calls herself Squished Cockroach painted herself yellow and then wandered through a crowded train while eating rice and stepping on printed articles strewn in her path. The articles referred to "the rise of hate speech against Asians, stereotypes against Asians presented by the media and increased crime rates targeting Asians."

She walked through the train and then was gone, leaving the befuddled commuters to wonder about "the many incidents of racial harassment that do in fact occur on public transport" as well as "the ‘progress’ of humanity."

More info

Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 21, 2018 - Comments (0)
Category: Performance Art

The Ant Farm, a Cadillac, and a Wall of Flaming TVs

Wikipedia page for the collective.

Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 15, 2018 - Comments (2)
Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Destruction, Motor Vehicles, Television, 1970s

Retyping as art

Performance artist Tim Youd retypes famous novels word for word on old typewriters. The only change he makes is that he leaves out all the spaces between the words, producing page after page of unbroken text. He does this as performance art events at museums, art galleries, coffee shops, etc.

I figured that since typing was his thing, he'd probably be a pretty good typist. But as can be seen in the video, he turns out to be a two-finger, hunt-and-peck typist. Although a relatively fast one.



More in extended >>

Posted By: Alex - Tue May 01, 2018 - Comments (3)
Category: Art, Performance Art