Tag: performance
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Studio Morison – interview: ‘MOTHER … was made to heal us now, to prepare us for the future. We are now in that future, and she can help us still’
The artists talk about their site-specific, timber and straw commission, MOTHER …, for Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, which offers visitors somewhere to sit and shelter and escape from their own heads
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VALIE EXPORT – interview: ‘My artworks are still a rebellion against the Catholic faith’
The pioneering Austrian feminist artist talks about breaking taboos and provoking aggressive responses – in the 1960s and now – ahead of a reinstallation of her 1980 Venice Biennale works at London’s Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
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International Festival of Performance Art (FIAP)
There were some riveting performances at this second iteration of the West Indian island’s festival, which took as its theme its neo-colonial history and the overwhelming threat from climate change
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Lucy Joyce – interview: ‘I’m not interested in the idea of spectacle; I’m interested in people catching sight of something subtly and what that then does for them’
With her six-month inaugural exhibition and a live Aktion ahead of the official opening, Joyce hopes to surprise visitors and make them think – as well as to leave behind something of her collaborative research to guard the new Brandenburgian…
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Silvia Ziranek – interview: ‘I enjoy appearance, colour, shape and form – and I love dressing up’
The artist discusses her approach to objects and performance, to writing and performing, and to language, the absurdity in life – and the colour pink
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Rosa Johan Uddoh: Studies for Impartiality
Rosa Johan Uddoh continues her exploration of popular culture from a black feminist perspective by reimagining the BBC broadcaster Moira Stuart
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Into the Mountain: Simone Kenyon
Immersive art doesn’t usually involve a 5.30am start and a day hiking in the rain, but Into the Mountain opens us up to the potential of contemporary art practices to be truly adventurous and transformative
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Anne Imhof: Sex
Spending four hours at Imhof’s live works is like Waiting for Godot, for the slacker generation. The audience turns out to be the most fascinating element of the exhibition
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Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
This retrospective helps us understand Nauman as an artist who turns attention to himself, his body and his image as an object of exploration in its relation to time, place and history
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After White: Michaela Zimmer and Peter Welz
Weaving a path in and out of Peter Welz’s awkward steel architectural intervention, the viewer comes up close and personal, in an unsettling way, with Michaela Zimmer’s layered canvases. Scratch the surface and there is far more to be told…
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