Performance

This survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As the internet mindset - browsing, sharing, collecting, producing - increasingly permeates every aspect of society, this timely project reveals the...

Willi Dorner's projects include pieces for the stage, site specific performances and installations. He is also active in the field of short films, visual arts and stages photography. Most works are created in collaboration with artists and scientists from various fields. His project Bodies...

Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from disused railway stations to atmospheric concert halls. It’s crossed boundaries and artistic disciplines, leapt over them, determinedly...

For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installations , films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa, apartheid, and the consequences of colonialism. This...

This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: 'Object Theater' (in which artists engage directly with the objects in the world around them); 'Loft Performance' (where artists performed in lofts, storefronts and the alternative spaces of New...

Performance artist Andre Stitt has presented hundreds of performances - or 'akshuns' - which are invariably violent and cathartic, involving self-abuse, tantrums and exorcisms. His references are wide, ranging from urban alienation to alternative religions.  Small Time Life presents Andre Stitt's incredible work with...

describes himself first and foremost as a sculptor and his trademark is a celebration of colour, in whatever medium he is working in, with the primary aim to create beauty or bring joy. Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic...

Edition of 1000 Brian Lane's unique contribution to small-press publishing was begun in the mid nineteen-sixties at Gallery Number Ten in Blackheath, south-east London. This was one of the first artists' spaces in Britain, and alongside its programme of exhibitions and events, there emerged a growing list of publications with poets and...

Text in English and German Viennese artist Erwin Wurm is known for his quirky and compelling art that occupies a special place in contemporary art. Since the late 1980s he has explored the boundaries between sculpture, object, and performance. His works have great visual...

This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are nine case studies by seven...

The work of Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as kitchen utensils or cribs into things...

The consistently original painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger has created some of the most subtly intelligent and irreverent work from the UK in the last twenty-five years. Studying in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1978 81) and Goldsmiths College (1983-5),...

“Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognised as such, from graffiti to performance, self-adornment, and beyond. Picking up from their breakthrough book on the subject, Wild...

Edition of 600 numbered copies The Purification of Fagus sylvatica var pendula is emblematic of Paul Etienne Lincoln's  inquiry into the origin and production of memory - and our ethereal relationship to that intangible evidence of our consciousness. In this pursuit Lincoln has employed...

Operating from a small, single-room structure installed at Documenta 13, art historian and "60 wrd/min art critic" Lori Waxman offered free reviews to any artist who wanted one. A sign in the window announced: "Reviews are free of charge, and are written here on...

In her performances, videos, and installations, Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) explores the nexus between politics, history, speech, and desire. Her works modify or appropriate the language and tools of political dissent, creating unexpected affinities between important historical events and the present. Highlighted in this...

Rare & Collectible When Jim Holl moved to New York's SoHo district in the mid-1970s, he found himself in the epicentre of the city's booming art scene. Immersing himself in all the city had to offer, Holl began an artistic dialogue with numerous art...

Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is seen as one of the pioneers of international conceptual art. During his short artistic career, he produced more than a thousand canvases, sculptures and other objects. He radically broke with the conventions of art, even making the body of the artist,...

This beautifully produced book accompanied Bruce Nauman’s major exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris, 2015). Developed in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition brought together a range of works including sculpture, video, sound works and drawings which are fully documented...

Artists Heather and Ivan Morison and their studio have established an ambitious collaborative practice that transcends traditional divisions between art, architecture, theatre and activism. Their work is often performance-based and site-specific, existing as one-off events, social projects or large-scale installations and buildings in public...