Performance Art Movies

An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.

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

In these uncertain, ever evolving and changing times, inspiration and entertainment come from equally bizarre places. People long for togetherness...

Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of...

In the dystopian 2040, a performance artist shots himself dead in front of a live audience. While the extreme act shocks the society, his friend is...

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...

The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories.

A performance art piece in which the artist makes themself shed tears over a period of time.

A monument handcrafted by Konstantin Bessmertny is exhibited at Venice Biennale 2007.

Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović challenges popular notions about what art is.

A series of filmed interviews with Rebecca Horn, performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose work explores the themes of sexuality, human...

"We are beginning a new era of Maya world view that is associated with important events. Departing from an interdisciplinary investigation,...

The film focuses on an audition to select an actor that best interprets the role of Jesus, judged by a jury of Vatican members.

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...

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance