Performance Art

Dan Collins MFA, PhD

Kazuo Shiraga

Making a Work with His Own Body

1955mud

Yves Klein

Anthropometry Performance

Galerie Internationale d’Art ContemporainParis, FranceMarch 9, 1960

Jean Tinguely

Homage to New York

March 17, 1960just prior to its self-destruction

Allan Kaprow

Household

1964performance happening, Cornell University, NY

Bruce Nauman

Self-Portrait as a Fountain

1966-70C-print photograph19 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.

Hermann Nitsch

6 Tage Spiel: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater

1998performances

Carolee Schneeman

Meat Joy

1964performanceraw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, plastic, rope, paper scrapJudson Church, New York City

Valie Export

Tapp und Tast Kino (Touch Cinema)

1968expanded cinema, street action, mobile film, body action, social action

Gilbert + George

Singing Sculpture

1970performance

Marina Abramovic

Rhythm O

1974performance at Studio Mona Gallery, Naples, Italy6 hours

Marina Abramovic

Rhythm 10

1973performance

Chris Burden

Shoot

November 19, 1971

Chris Burden

Through the Night Softly

September 12, 1973Main Street, Los Angeles

Chris Burden

Doorway to Heaven

November 15, 1973

Chris Burden

Icarus

April 13, 1973

Chris Burden

Transfixed

April 23, 1974

Vito Acconci

Step Piece

19705 black and white photographs type on 4 sheets of bond paper, mounted on paperboard with felt-tip annotations30 x 40 in.

Vito Acconci

Following Piece

1969black and white photographs with text and chalk, text on index cards, mounted on cardboard30 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.

Vito Acconci

Conversions II: Insistence, Adaptation, Groundwork, Display

1971silver gelatin prints and chalk on board30 1/2 x 40 in.

Gordon Matta-Clark

Splitting Exterior

1974six black and white photographs

Gordon Matta-Clark

Splitting

1974black and white photo collage40 x 30 in.

Gordon Matta-Clark

Splitting: Four Corners

1974four building fragments

Mierle Ukeles

Touch Sanitation

1977 - 1980performance

Vanessa Beecroft

VB43

2000performance at the Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

Vanessa Beecroft

VB43

2000performance at the Gagosian Gallery, London, UK