performance art

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performance art

Listen up!

spoken word poetry
1999
Features works by such spoken word artists as Tish Benson, Saul Williams, Willie Perdomo, Tracie Morris, Ava Chin, and Carl Hancock Rux.

Emergency index

an annual document of performance practice ; Vol. 3, documenting 2013
2014
Emergency INDEX is an annual print publication of performance documented in the words of its creators, providing a cutting-edge view of the ways in which performance is used in dance, theater, poetry, music, visual art, political activism, scientific research, advertising, terrorism, and elsewhere.

Performance art

Explores all types of performance art including action painting, street performers, flash mobs, and mime artists. Offers opinions for and against the argument that performance art is really art. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further resources.

Performance art

2015
Looks at performance art and discusses whether or not it is a form of art.

The spoken word revolution

slam, hip hop and the poetry of a new generation
2003

Gilbert & George

the Singing Sculpture
1993

Allison Smith

The muster : a project of the Public Art Fund, Governors Island, New York, Saturday, May the 14th, 2005
2007

Sounding the subject

video trajectories : selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust
2007

Robert Whitman

performances from the 1960s
2003
Performances from the 1960s by Robert Whitman that involve interaction of film, lights, sound, live performers, props, and objects. Includes original footage of The American moon (1960) and Flower (1963), short documentaries about the works, interviews with Trisha Brown, Jim Dine, Simone Forti, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, and Robert Whitman. A recent performance of Prune Flat (1965) is accompanied by an interview with Whitman about the piece. A bonus video presents Ghost, Whitman's latest theater work (2002).

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