Performance Art Movies

In these uncertain, ever evolving and changing times, inspiration and entertainment come from equally bizarre places. People long for togetherness and...

A performance artist prepares for an event, whether they truly want to attend is uncertain.

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”.

Jamila reads aloud a stack of printed emails written to individuals and organisations delaying, postponing, or cancelling work due to illness from her...

The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories.

Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of m...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

A performance art piece in which the artist makes themself shed tears over a period of time.

Raphael Montañez Ortiz tells a story about an elderly Jewish couple that didn't watch television or listen to the radio. Instead they used to talk lov...

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović challenges popular notions about what art is.

Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance ch...

Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no exception, fr...

"We are beginning a new era of Maya world view that is associated with important events. Departing from an interdisciplinary investigation, anthropolo...

Pistolteatern in Stockholm, Sweden, was a leading experimental scene in the mid 1960s, comparable to the Living Theater in New York. In the years 1964...

This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and v...

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the came...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

an eight-hour long experimental film/performance art piece in which filmmaker chandler pippin creates their own arbitrary form of service work and fil...