Performance Art

The Gender Paradox In India

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: India, Video, The Invisible Dog, Art Meets Science, Prune Nourry, Sexism, Holy River, Brooklyn Art, Gender Selection, Performance Art, Female Artists, Slideexpand, Feminism, India Gender Selection, Arts News

Prune Nourry is a multi-disciplinary artist who finds pleasure in contradiction, whether in bioethics, mythology or even artistic materials. Although ...

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What the Heck Is Modern Dance?

Nora Younkin | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Modern Dance, Chicago Dance, Live Performance, Art School, Student Performance, Arts, Contemporary Dance, Performance Art, Chicago Around Town, Columbia College Chicago, College Dance, Degree in Dance, Dance Degree, Chicago News

Sometimes it would seem audiences are afraid of modern dance because it's not evident what it's about. Let me tell you another secret: that's okay. Take chances. See something weird. Talk about it.

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Poetry Out Loud Makes Beautiful Noise

John Lundberg | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Cornelius Eady, Performance Art, Kristen Dupard, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud, National Endowment for the Arts, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Culture News

It was a long road for Kristen, who had to advance from her classroom to a school-wide competition, then on through regional/state competitions, just to make the finals in Washington, D.C.

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Soaring Through the Air, Writhing on the Ground: Bad Unkl Sista's First Breath, Last Breath

Larissa Archer | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Arts, Dance, Events, San Francisco, Butoh, Z-Space, Bad Unkl Sista, Kristen Greco, Karl Gillick, Performance Art, Anastazia Louise, Michael Curran, Arts News

There were leather and piles of silver, feathers and dreadlocks, tattoos and guy-liner. I've never felt like such a square; even before the performance began it had rendered my life meaningless.

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Marina Abramovic's New Art Center

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Lengthy Performances, Performance Art, Marina Abramovic Hudson, Marina Abramovic Art Center, Marina Abramovic Art, Upstate Ny, Marina Abramovic, Hudson Ny, Arts News

NEW YORK — Performance artist Marina Abramovic plans to build a $15 million center in upstate New York devoted to the research and production of...

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Anonymous American Buys German Artists' Guillotine For $2.3 Million

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Animal Slaughter, Art Buyers, Animal Activism, Video, Art, Killing Sheep, Animal Rights, Online Lamb Vote, Die Guillotine, Art Lamb, German Art, Sheep Vote, Lamb Death, Performance Art, Culture News

An anonymous buyer from the U.S. has purchased a homemade guillotine from two German art students for $2.3 million. The guillotine was the centerpiece...

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Performance Artist Nominated For UK's Turner Prize

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Spartacus Chetwynd, Elizabeth Price, Turner Prize, Lali "Spartacus" Chetwynd, Performance Art, Arts Prize, Female Artists, Luke Fowler, UK Arts, Finalists, Paul Noble, Video, Arts News

LONDON — A performance artist who has staged works about the Incredible Hulk and Jabba the Hutt is among four finalists announced Tuesday for Br...

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Can The Internet Save This Lamb?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Peta, German Art, Artists, German Artists, Poll, Berlin University of the Arts, Video, Die Guillotine, Performance Art, Berlin Art, Guillotine, Culture News

Oh, art. That magical, enigmatic practice that allows you to do anything you want in its name. You could shoot yourself, give birth to a child or lose...

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Tony Orrico Performance At Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, Mexico City (VIDEO)

VernissageTV | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Video, Mexico City, Art News, Tony Orrico, Spirograph, Drawing, Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Dance, Geometry, Home News

With the exhibition CARBON, the Polyforum Siqueiros in Mexico City presents Tony Orrico's third solo exhibition. Orrico is a visual artist as well as ...

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Put on a Happy Face (Or If You Can't, Use Electricity)

Madeline Schwartzman | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Facial Transformation, Performance Art, Electrocution, Senses, Video, Science News

We humans don't like people or things messing with the face. But there are researchers and artists who see the face as terra incognita, as a potential blank slate, a computer-mutable landscape or testing grounds for understanding the brain and communication.

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"Ungovernable" Artist Pilvi Takala Explains Her Radical Artistic Program: Do Nothing

ARTINFO | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Do Nothing, Performance Art, Artinfo, Pilvi Takala, Arts News

In a moment where everyone feels compelled to do something, anything, quick - from the Occupy movement to Kony 2012 - Pilvi Takala's standout piece in...

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2.9 "Conversations WIt De Churen" pt. 2

Kalup Linzy | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Melody Set Me Free, Web Series, Kalup Linzy, Performance Art, Video, James Franco, Arts News

James Franco on WhoSay ...

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A Strange And Beautiful One Woman Show

Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Yoga, Choreography, Video, Performance Piece, One Woman Show, Kickstarter, Aurora Lagattuta, Performance Art, Female Artists, Arts News

We spend too much time scouring Kickstarter, looking to feature the next big artists. In our most recent search, dancer, artist, yogi and writer Auror...

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When Paper Makes Waves

Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Origami, Paper Sculpture, Sculpture, Paper Folding, Daniele Papuli, Cartoframma, Italian Art, Performance Art, Arts News

Italian artist Daniele Papuli makes site-specific installations out of thousands of strips of paper, transforming the medium into something soft and i...

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Watch A Slow Motion Car Crash In A Gallery!

Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Slow Motion Car Crash, Video, Car Crash, Sculpture, Jonathan Schipper, Mortality, Performance Art, John Chamberlain, Arts News

For today's edition of things you would not expect to see in an art gallery: a car crash. Jonathan Schipper choreographed a slow motion car crash t...

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2.7 "Mushy Wushy" Melody Set Me Free (2012)

Kalup Linzy | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Melodrama, Web Series, Soap Operas, Video Art, James Franco Kalup Linzy, Performance Art, Musical Comedy, Melody Set Me Free, Video, Arts News

Episode 2.7 "Mushy Wushy" Melody Set Me Free (2012) James Franco on WhoSay...

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Defying Gravity: The Impossible Art of Li Wei

MutualArt | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Photography, Performance Art, Li Wei, Arts News

Chinese Artist Li Wei is a connoisseur of danger who effortlessly blends the boundaries between fantasy and reality.

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LOOK: Woman Will Walk 500 Miles To W.Va. For Art's Sake

Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: 500 Miles/500 Stories, DC Performance Art, Moving Field Guide, District of Columbia, DC Dance Performance, The Moving Field Guide, Dc Around Town, Performance Art, Slidepollajax, Dance Exchange, Cassie Meador, DC News

Cassie Meador not only would, but will walk 500 miles. Tuesday night, she'll explain why. Meador, artistic director for the Dance Exchange, is sett...

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Zackary Drucker's "Gold Standard" (NSFW)

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Photography, Zackary Drucker, Video, Queer, Transgender, Translady Fanzine, Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac, Transsexual, LGBT Art, Queer Art, Performance Art, Fashion, Amos Mac, Slidepollajax, Gender, Arts News

Zackary Drucker is a transgender performance artist who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality and seeing. The artist uses a female pron...

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Stage Door: Elephant Room

Fern Siegel | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Comedy, St. Ann's Warehouse, Performance Art, Entertainment, Magic, Arts News

A trio of loopy, but gifted magicians perform a unique blend of magic and mayhem. Now at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood. Or as they call it: "Stan's Warehouse."

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College Students Explore Their Wild Side

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Nick Cave Artist, Dancing, Video, Nasher Sculpture Center, Raffia, Soundsuits, University of Northern Texas, Nick Cave Art, Heard, Performance Art, Slidepollajax, Artist in Residence, Dallas, Nick Cave, Arts News

Artist Nick Cave is known for his imaginative "soundsuits", rainbow multimedia costumes that completely transform the wearer into a moving, living art...

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Everything Has Changed

Kalup Linzy | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Web Series, Art, Whosay, Video Art, James Franco Kalup Linzy, Rabbit Bandini, Performance Art, Soap Operas, Melody Set Me Free, Video, Arts News

New episode of Melody Set Me Free 2.6 "Everything Has Change".

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Watch: China's High Flying Artist

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Youtube, Chinese Government, Video, Flying Monk, Performance Art, Chinese Art, Li Wei Chinese Art, Ai Weiwei, Gravity, Li Wei, Arts News

We always thought that Ai Weiwei was the bravest artist in China. But performance artist Li Wei, here seen propelling himself high into the clouds, is...

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Interview With Andrea Fraser On The State Of The Arts

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Video, Art and Money, 2012-Whitney-Biennial, Andrea Fraser, Whitney Biennial, Slidepollajax, Performance Art, Female Artists, Yale University Press, Performance, Arts News

For the past 80 years, the Whitney Biennial has introduced to the public the undercurrents running through contemporary art. This year, the Biennial f...

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2.5 "Faded To Black" Melody Set Me Free (2012)

Kalup Linzy | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Melody Set Me Free, Web Series Music, Soap Opera Online, Web Series Performance Art, Sopaweb Series Soap Opera, Soap Opera, Video Performance, Performance Art, Video, Arts News

Here's this week's episode of Melody Set Me Free (2012):

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