Tag: Performance art
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The Body as Language: Women and Performance
This historically salient show, examining the birth and development of performance art in relation to gender, the body, language and the expression of the self, marks the 40th anniversary of a seminal book on the subject by Lea Vergine
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Ahmet Ogut: Happy Together: Collaborators Collaborating
Directing a chatshow featuring a host of friends and former collaborators, Kurdish artist Ahmet Öğüt reminds us of the one thing about contemporary art that people forget: it’s supposed to be fun
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Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar
A dedicated feminist who came of age in the tumult of the 1960s, Lynn Hershman Leeson was born in 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, and is now based in New York and San Francisco. She is an influential new media and…
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Marni Kotak interview: ‘I wanted to have my son’s birth as a performance’
US artist Marni Kotak talks about her performance of everyday events in real life as way to raise awareness of self-destructive emotions that ruin women’s lives and often go unnoticed
