They were part of an multi-faceted installation and
performance art piece by Desi Santiago that mingled neon, inflatables and performers in clandestine locales.
Not exact matches
Dan bets it all on the chance to steal a major client out from under Chuck, flying his motley little crew over to Europe where, among other things, he goes to a nude German unisex spa, finds himself the main exhibit — «American Businessman 42» — in an avant - garde museum /
performance -
art piece, and does an entire scene surrounded
by penises in a gloryhole gallery.
When Andrew decides to contribute a film to the Humpday fest (a real - life amateur porno festival sponsored
by Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger), a
piece of
art that will «push boundaries,» Ben proposes (in front of a crowd of artist - types) that the two of them — two straight men — have sex on camera as a radical
performance piece.
From the appearance of the credit «written and directed
by Brian De Palma» overlaid on the sleek outer casing of an Apple MacBook Pro to a shot of a car driving into and destroying a parking - lot Coca - Cola machine, there's a through line of anticorporate humor that juxtaposes the ideas of «
art» and «product» — never more so than in an amazing, extended split - screen scene in which footage of a ballet
performance competes for our attention with a knowingly clichéd, Halloween - style slasher - on - the - loose set
piece.
It's also true that I have been conducting experiments on how the performing
arts affect students, including this
piece on a musical
performance, and a forthcoming
piece in Education Next about an experiment in which students were assigned
by lottery to see Hamlet and A Christmas Carol or to serve in the control to identify what students learn from seeing live theater.
In the basement, a sculptural installation
by Marc Andre Robinson weaves together formalism with black cultural history, while another, «Lorraine O'Grady:
Art Is...» offers a fantastic exhibition of photographs documenting Ms. Grady's performance piece during the 1983 African - American Day Parade, in which she skillfully weaves together art, activism and participati
Art Is...» offers a fantastic exhibition of photographs documenting Ms. Grady's
performance piece during the 1983 African - American Day Parade, in which she skillfully weaves together
art, activism and participati
art, activism and participation.
This is an interview with the artist Joan Jonas, who talks about her
performance piece Mirror Check, which she showed at 14 Rooms, the Live
Art exhibition during
Art Basel, organized
by Fondation Beyeler,
Art Basel, and Theater Basel.
In 1983, Available Light was the first in a series of projects commissioned
by the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Los Angeles (LA MOCA) that gathered teams of artists to develop collaborative
performance pieces.
In this
performance, contemporary artist Jumana Emil Abboud invites audiences to move in and between spaces in a newly commissioned live
art piece inspired
by Palestinian folklore.
HALF a century ago, on Oct. 4, 1959, an event took place at the Reuben Gallery in the East Village that changed the course of
art history: a
performance piece by the artist Allan Kaprow titled «18 Happenings in 6 Parts.»
One not to be missed this weekend if you're a fan of
performance art and visual puns is Deux Chevaux, a
performance piece by the artist William Mackrell taking place Saturday from 11.
Currently represented in the 56th International
Art Exhibition of this year's Venice Biennale
by Librettos, a new series that brings together the score of the opera La Vida Breve
by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla and a speech from 1964
by Black Panther Party member Stokely Carmichael, and Sound Text, a multipart series incorporating drawings on paper that lead to a
performance by a seven -
piece ensemble, Gaines continually produces ambitious and compelling work that is as challenging as it is inviting.
«Hybrid: A
Performance Arts Showcase» at Brooklyn Fireproof (119 Ingraham St., June 1st, 6 pm to 9 pm) will feature a series of performance pieces by 11 different Bushwi
Performance Arts Showcase» at Brooklyn Fireproof (119 Ingraham St., June 1st, 6 pm to 9 pm) will feature a series of
performance pieces by 11 different Bushwi
performance pieces by 11 different Bushwick artists.
Highlights have included Northern Ireland's first Andy Warhol exhibition and a
performance piece by Martin Creed at the Ferens
Art Gallery in Hull.
When I invited Carlos Motta he suggested collaborating with
art writer John Arthur Peetz and choreographer - dancer Carlos Maria Romero for a bigger
performance piece inspired
by queer manifestos from the 1960s to the present.
This latest issue of Esopus, featuring a brand - new format and design (and encased in a slipcover), features artists» projects
by Sharon Core, Joyce Pensato and John Sparagana; 100 still frames from David Lynch's Blue Velvet (introduced
by Gregory Crewdson); materials from MoMA's archives related to late artist Scott Burton's early
performance pieces; never - before - seen photographs from 1949
by Magnum photographer Burt Glinn; commentary on artworks from the New Orleans Museum of
Art by two of its guards; fiction
by Chelli Riddiough; and an audio compilation of new songs inspired
by the customer - service experiences of Jens Lekman, Richard Swift, Basia Bulat and others.
Recent exhibitions and publications include New American Paintings, issue 107; the LA
Art Show 2018, Los Angeles, CA; Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Transient Visitant (with Marimba, Clarinets, Body and Chair), Truman State University, Kirksville, MO;
performance piece in collaboration with composer Victor Marquez - Barrios; Mutual Dealings, Bert Green Fine
Art, Chicago; The Moments Between: New Work
by Rafael E. Vera, Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Chicago; Pillow Talk: New Sculptures
by Rafael E. Vera, Seerveld Gallery, Palos Heights, IL; Nothing Concrete, Bert Green Fine
Art, Chicago; and the 23rd Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL.
Burrow: Revisited is a collaborative
performance piece by world - class musician and sound artist Alex Waterman and MECA Assistant Professor, writer, and scholar Seth Rogoff, premiering at the Institute of Contemporary
Art (ICA) at Maine College of
Art (MECA) at 7 pm on Friday, February 2, 2018, during the First Friday Artwalk.
In addition to the installation, we will present a carefully curated, dynamic selection of works including a stunning new series of paintings
by Terence Koh -
ART HK 12 is one of the premiere occasions that the gallery has exhibited work
by the ground - breaking contemporary artist - as well as a rarely seen editioned work documenting a seminal early
performance piece by Tehching Hsieh and an important early work
by Joseph Kosuth.
Maine College of
Art presents the world premiere of Burrow: Revisited, a collaborative
performance piece by sound artist Alex Waterman and Assistant Professor Seth Rogoff.
Guests entered single - file through the bamboo entrance and were met
by the first
art performance piece unfolding in the woods: Costume Designer Jacques Reynaud's Angels of Apocalypse, which included sound installations adapted from recent recordings
by Oscar nominee singer / songwriter, ANOHNI (aka Anthony Hegarty).
Bob's group have extended their collecting practice to include
Performance Art — «Home Suite», a performance piece by Katharine Fry was commission
Performance Art — «Home Suite», a
performance piece by Katharine Fry was commission
performance piece by Katharine Fry was commissioned in 2008.
Adding some unexpected fun to the proceedings were demonstrations of transformational paper sculptures
by contemporary Chinese artist Li Hongbo at Klein Sun Gallery (New York) and a
performance art piece Mehrung # 6
by Bohler & Orendt presented
by Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt).
Gray refused to formally document the
performance piece photographically or
by using video adhering to the tropes of conceptual
art, lest the documentation became a surrogate for the physical experience of the work itself.
Media
Arts features significant historic
pieces by performance and video pioneers Ant Farm, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Nam June Paik.
Performa07, the second installment of New York's biennial of
performance art, included live
pieces by Kalup Linzy as Taiwan and Tamy Ben - Tor as an eccentric quartet of women.
A string of exhilarating
performances, all sold out, have concluded, but a treasure box of an exhibition of Eastman's archival materials remains on view through this Saturday at the Chelsea alternative space alongside a moving show, inspired
by the artist's work, of contemporary
art, including
pieces by Sondra Perry, Carolyn Lazard, and Chloë Bass.
Mitchell - Innes & Nash announces The Problem, a new
performance piece conceived
by Pope.L staged for the opening of Unlimited during
Art Basel in Basel.
Each room is its own installation, confronting the visitors with a unique experience that both stands on its own as a
piece of
performance art and as a
piece of the larger, diverse show that is equally enjoyed
by the infrequent museum - goer to the contemporary
art critic.
Many members of the Duke Community watch a
performance art piece entitlled reVERSE — gesture — reVIEWed
by Thomas F. DeFrantz, professor and chair of Duke's African and African American Studies Department and SLIPPAGE.
Forthcoming projects include new works
by Pedro Barateiro and Quinn Latimer; a group exhibition in collaboration with Jose Luis Blondet that will consider relationships among gesture, meaning, and spectacle in
performance art and theater; and the re-staging of a historical
performance piece by Argentinian artist Leon Ferrari in collaboration with The Getty Institute.
The sound recording was made during preparations for the experimental
performance Desert Walker, a land
art piece produced
by the Oslo - based artist group Motherboard in 2008.
These textual explorations are complemented
by extensive documentation of related projects, both historical and contemporary,
by artists, architects, and
performance artists, including Coughing
Piece, a never - before released 1961 audio work
by Yoko Ono; an obscure audio work
by Nauman from 1969; projects
by Suzanne Lacy, a leading figure in the development of conceptual practice and public
art; and an experimental text
by Jane Rendell on psychic architectures.
Performance art isn't defined by the artist's career, but rather by the individual piece — a painter can make a performance and a performance artist can make
Performance art isn't defined
by the artist's career, but rather
by the individual
piece — a painter can make a
performance and a performance artist can make
performance and a
performance artist can make
performance artist can make a painting.
Public
performances include Kitchen, Roulette, and
pieces at the Guggenheim Museum SOHO, Museum of Contemporary
Art of Barcelona, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, and a commission
by the American Dance Festival for Merce Cunningham.
We look forward to the opportunity to present BLISS (REALITY CHECK), a site specific, durational
performance piece created
by Donna Huanca for
Art Basel's Unlimited sector.
Cleveland, OH (December 17, 2017)-- Recent acquisitions
by the Cleveland Museum of
Art include a
performance piece by Pierre Huyghe, a leader in the Relational Aesthetic genre and the first work of its kind to enter the museum's collection; an oil painting on copper
by Johann König, one of the most significant masters of German painting at the beginning of the 17th century; a generous bequest of several works from Frances P. Taft, a beloved Trustee of the Cleveland Museum of
Art; and two groups of photos, gifted to the museum
by The George Gund Foundation.
Zhang's first major
performance was an unannounced
piece titled Angel (1993), in which he laid almost completely naked, covered in red liquid and surrounded
by dismembered doll parts at the entrance hall of the National
Art Museum of China.
In this excerpt from his lecture /
performance, artist Theaster Gates reflects on the last 10 years of his
art practice through the medium of his 60,000 -
piece glass lantern slide collection, given to him
by the University of Chicago's
art history department.
This will include a tribute to the Latin American composers of Hollywood
by the Mexican Institute of Sound at the Getty Center, a sound installation
by award - winning Mexican composer Guillermo Galindo at the Huntington Library and a
performance by experimental soul rockers Chicano Batman, who will be creating a
piece inspired
by the paintings of Carlos Alamaraz at the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art.
A self - proclaimed dropout of the
art world, Lozano rejected the commerciality of the
art scene
by committing an act of defiance, in four parts: General Strike
Piece, a
performance that began in February 1969 as a protest to the banality of the existing artistic atmosphere; Decide to Boycott Women, a twenty - seven year hiatus from contact with her female supporters, including artists, gallerists, and critics, begun in August 1971; Dialogue
Piece, an invitation to dialogue that blurred the roles between artist as sender and viewer as receiver.
A wearable
piece of
art created by Somogyi was recently included in Fall Collection a runway show performance at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, as part of the NY Art Book Fa
art created
by Somogyi was recently included in Fall Collection a runway show
performance at P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center, Queens, as part of the NY Art Book Fa
Art Center, Queens, as part of the NY
Art Book Fa
Art Book Fair.
This public
piece, entitled 100 Walkers, West Hollywood, is the work of Richard Kraft, a Los Angeles - based artist who was asked
by the West Hollywood
Arts and Cultural Affairs Committee to create a
performance as part of their 30th anniversary of city - hood.
Yet, while Made in L.A. appeared as diverse and sprawling as the city whose
art it presented, it might also be argued that the bulk of the work on view extended four familiar (and familial) lineages of Los Angeles
art that were well represented in «PST»: hard - edge abstraction (represented here in paintings
by Brian Sharp and Alex Olson and painterly objects
by Lisa Williamson and Brenna Youngblood), found - object assemblage (in the work of Liz Glynn, Ry Rocklen, Henry Taylor, and Erika Vogt, among others), eclectic
performance practices (including live
pieces by Math Bass, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, and Ashley Hunt, as well as the collective Slanguage's array of community - based works at LAXART), and film and video projects that pointed, more or less, to the looming shadow of Hollywood (e.g., Miljohn Ruperto's Seven and Five, 2012, which includes multiple remakes of a 1961 episode of the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Dan Finsel's The Space Between You and Me, 2012, for which the artist restaged Farrah Fawcett and Keith Edmier's decade - old roll in the clay).
She dropped
by the studio this week to talk about working with professional actors for her
pieces, her recent solo exhibition at On Stellar Rays, complicating traditional notions of the viewer's gaze, watching bad TV, not buying video equipment, and her constantly - shifting relationship with the genre of
performance art.
I probably made it worse when I stepped up to speak,
by doing my version of Bruce Nauman's video
performance piece Clown Torture — jumping up and down shouting No, No, No, No, No, as well as performing my Mark Rothko - Killed - Himself - Because - He - Met - the - People - Who - Bought - His -
Art routine.
Part installation, part Happening and part
performance piece, the immersive nature of this Work is central to the inclusive nature of Creed's
art, «If you make a movement, you make a balloon rub up against someone else, what you do effects people» (M. Creed, quoted
by J. Jones, «What's so minimal about 15,000 balloons?
«Life, Once More: Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary
Art,» at Rotterdam's Witte de With in 2005, queried the status of such representations of historical actions and events, and to this end included Sullivan's aforementioned
piece along with, for instance, the earlier example of Andrea Fraser's Kunst muss hangen (
Art Must Hang), 2001, a video depicting Fraser's own
performance of a drunken speech once given
by Martin Kippenberger.
The concurrent
Art Perform program at the
Art Positions site, curated
by Jens Hoffmann (Director Wattis Institute for Contemporary
Arts San Francisco), presents daily
performances by four artists invited to conceive and present specially commissioned
pieces: Christian Jankowski (Germany), Yoshua Okon (Mexico / United States), Adriana Lara (Mexico), and Jordan Wolfson (United States).
Instructions for the
performance piece The Greenhouse (1971)
by Kerry Trengrove [showing along with Flanagan in
Art Spectrum London].