Tag: Performance art
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Mike Parr – interview: ‘I was a performance artist with one arm. The problem of visibility, the visual, was loaded completely differently’
One of Australia’s most influential artists, Parr talks about his extreme performance art, how the death of his brother has affected his work, and why Joseph Beuys’s drawings have been a constant touchstone
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Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals
Marina Abramović’s new duo of exhibitions in Oxford ought, most aptly, to be titled The Artist is Absent – and this beginners’ guide to sensory modulation is fairly void of impact
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Trulee Hall – interview: ‘When I say “whore”, I wouldn’t say that it’s a bad word’
Trulee Hall talks about her multimedia practice, her views on sex and voyeurism, and how she hopes her giant, golden corn-on-the-cobs and dancing, milk-squirting boobs will offer visitors a new experience
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The impact of Covid-19 on artists, part 2: self-isolation, moving online and financial implications
In the second part of this five-part essay, comprising conversations with multiple artists around the globe, we look at the impact of self-isolation, either due to sickness or preventatively, and financial implications
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Power Night: the Launch of E-Werk Luckenwalde
It’s all about power – electricity and power relations – and this dynamic opening night for E-Werk Luckenwalde, curated by Block Universe, combined all varying aspects in an electrifying manner
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Thierry Oussou: ‘I would like the discourse that I am developing in my work to educate people – to make them think differently’
The Benin-born artist Thierry Oussou reflects on his artistic practice, the need for repatriation of cultural objects, and art and culture in Africa more generally
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Mette Edvardsen: ‘If forgetting is important, then so is remembering’
The dancer, choreographer and performer talks about memorising books and then retelling them, and exploring the possibilities and limits of language
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Sophie Jung: ‘I don’t trust language’
The performance artist talks about Chinese encyclopaedias, the Austrian feminist playwright Elfriede Jelinek, and her family of actors
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Donna Huanca: ‘Memory is perhaps the most permanent architecture’
The Chicago-born artist discusses shedding skin, the idea of permanence, and being involved in Manifesta 11
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Ragnar Kjartansson
The Icelandic artist’s first UK survey exhibition serves up a palimpsest of delights that gives contemporary performance art a good name
