Performance Art Movies

In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An...

In the first 58 minute Performance, Relation in Space, which took place in July 1976 at the Biennale in Venice, Abramovic/Ulay, both naked, walk...

A 19-minute short film featuring the six performances of the Japanese performance art group Grinder-Man. Only released on VHS.

“In this legendary sculpture/performance Acconci lay beneath a ramp built in the Sonnabend Gallery. Over the course of three weeks, he...

New wave geniuses who helped define an era with their quirky, futuristic, and revolutionary style are back, entertaining the Japanese crowds who love...

Genesis P-Orridge: We used to just improvise at night, making up stories to each other. And so at some point we began making videos but when that one...

A disparate group of dancers, preferring to express themselves through dance rather than speech, clash with each other and members of the local...

Offbeat performance artists The Blue Man Group have finally been captured live on this disc that features concert footage, three full-length music...

This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and...

Video, music, dance, graphics, modelling... that's what Kyupi Kyupi is, a video + performance group that goes beyond the boundaries of all genres....

A groom becomes a bride in a gender bending fashion performance by Alexander McQueen.

Bas Jan Ader rides his bike into a canal in Amsterdam.

The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain...

Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the...

Dirty Martini and Tigger!, stars of the New York underground scene, reveal some of the secrets of their provocative and remonstrative forms of...

Vanessa Place is a writer, artist, and criminal defense attorney. Her 2010 book "The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law" critically examined the...

A re-creation for film of Meredith Monk's seminal dance/theater work incorporating film and original music, voice, guitar, and audiotapes. Originally...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts...

A gallery owner is opening an unusual exhibition: An artist who is terminally ill wishes to die in front of an audience.