Today, every major Indian art event, be it a biennial or a fair, features performance artworks in its programme. But despite the form’s contemporary boom, its history in India is still inchoate. As ...

You could tell Göksu Kunak’s performance was beginning because blue light started flickering against the faces of a shadowy mass of guests pulling out their phones. Soon after, the Turkish performance ...

Did video kill the performance art star? The New York Times asks this question in a post that claims that the constant spectacle of YouTube and social media have trumped performance art’s shock value.

At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen. At Dia Beacon, a retrospective ...

Performance art originated in the early 20th century as a radical break from more traditional art, focusing on the body and lived experience rather than static objects. Emerging from movements like ...

In 1974, Marina Abramović performed a career-defining work at a small experimental gallery in Naples, Italy. The Serbian artist stood naked next to a table on which she had arranged 72 objects ...

For the last twenty years, as the founding director and chief curator of Performa, RoseLee Goldberg has asked the art establishment and the art curious to keep performance top of mind and to consider ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Before we get started, Marina Abramovic reaches for the hourglass, turns it over with a flourish and ...

Growing up, Priyaranjan Samal, 32, was an introvert who was conscious of people’s reactions. In school, he would want to act in plays but had a crippling fear of the stage. “I wasn’t comfortable ...

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