Performances – 71 examples

This was Pipilotti Rist’s amusing Ever is over all

Installations, Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

Pipilotti Rist is an authority when it comes to merging the highs and lows as far as culture goes in the art world. Through lush videos, Rist has, over time, blended aspects of female sexuality with pop culture, as seen in music videos. Have you ever stopped for a moment to imagine what life …

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Why did Kimsooja crisscross South Korea with her Bottari Truck?

Installations, Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Kimsooja’s trip through South Korea Kimsooja is a celebrated interdisciplinary artist who uses various artistic disciplines and mediums to weave a tale regarding concepts such as migration and cultural issues. Her work has been praised as giving center stage to these issues, and one of these renowned pieces is the Cities on the Move – …

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Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia? The lives & dreams of Chinese workers

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

Cao Fei is no stranger to the subject of Chinese urbanism, and Whose Utopia? is a classic example of her prowess and ingenuity as an artist. Cao Fei’s interest in generating multimedia art that touches on social commentary has placed her as China’s leading artist born after the Cultural Revolution. So, what’s Whose Utopia? …

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This was Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosion project Fallen Blossoms

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

What is Cai Guo-Qiang famous for? Cai Guo-Qiang is certainly one of the most prolific artists of his generation. Throughout his career, Cai has made a...

Why did Francis Alÿs push a block of ice for 9 hours?

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

What is Francis Alÿs known for? Francis Alÿs is known for using poetic and metaphorical techniques to highlight the political and social realities of his city. Often, the issues he addresses range from national border politics to globalism and areas of conflict in his community and the effects of modernism. As one of the most …

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Public Delivery goes East: Golden balloons in Central Asia & beyond

Performances / 1 minute of reading

We are closing off 2018 with a selection of recent performances from our Silence Was Golden project. These golden balloons were blown up loosely around the Silk Road, including some of the most remote locations in Central Asia, such as the desert of Turkmenistan and other rugged and sparsely populated spots in Tajikistan and …

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Zhang Huan’s iconic performance: A small mountain of naked people

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Zhang Huang is one of the greatest and perhaps most popular controversial artists in contemporary China. He first started...

Cai Guo-Qiang’s rainbow explodes over New York

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

The Transient Rainbow by Cai Guo-Qiang was a minute-long show of color and light and it was held at the East River, just over the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. The event was held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York to commemorate MOMA’s temporary move to Queens. The Transient Rainbow was displayed …

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Erwin Wurm is politically incorrect on purpose – Humans in awkward poses

Performances, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Erwin Wurm is undoubtedly one of Austria’s and one of the world’s most recognizable artists. Using social taboos and absurd scenarios to create his thought-provoking work, Wurm’s artworks have broken boundaries and changed how people approach and view art in contemporary society. How to be politically incorrect How to be Politically Incorrect consists of …

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Marina Abramović’s Rest Energy – What you should know

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

It is no secret that Marina Abramović is one of the best and most audacious performance artists of all time. She was celebrated for her ability to push boundaries when it came to performance art and indeed using her body as a portrayal of meaning, endurance, and the threat of physical harm. Therefore, she …

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SEFT-1 by Ivan Puig & his brother – What is this futuristic car about?

Performances, Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

About SEFT-1 Artists and brothers Ivan Puig and Andres Padilla Domene were the masterminds responsible for SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe project. SEFT-1 or Sonda de Exploración Ferroviaria Tripulada was an interactive, interdisciplinary art project that explored disused railway lines and their historical importance and social implications. As a road and rail vehicle, the creation …

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Our 2018 Art Basel Unlimited top 10

Installations, Performances, Photography, Sculptures / 9 minutes of reading

Rirkrit Tiravanija – Untitled, 2015 (bangkok boogie woogie, no. 1), 2015 “In 2010, Bangkok erupted in violence with protesters from both the Left and Right, battling the military in the streets. The main weapon on both sides was the tire, both as a barricade and as improvised Molotov cocktail, rolled instead of thrown. In 2015, …

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Zhang Huan in suit made from raw meat (video)

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Zhang Huan is one of China’s best known conceptual and performance artists. In his sculptures and paintings, he references the history of his home country. As such, his pieces contain components of political, religious and intellectual messages and anonymous portrait and landscape scenes. Most of his works are deeply influenced by …

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Banned: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s controversial dog video

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

The video work titled Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other has only recently been removed from Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition series known as Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. The video series has been met with disapproval and disparagement not only by some art critics but animal lovers and welfare organizations as …

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Why did the Danish artists Superflex flood McDonald’s?

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

In this short film, a life-size replica of a McDonald’s burger bar gets flooded with water gradually. There are images of furniture being washed away in the water, food floating around the room, and electric appliances short-circuit to a halt before space can no longer be seen below the water. While the production lacks …

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Marina Abramović walks China’s Great Wall only to break up

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

Marina Abramović’s & Ulay’s preparation for the project Artists Marina Abramovic and Ulay are known in many parts of the world as the lovers whose relationship ended at the Great Wall of China. Initially, when the couple planned the trip, they intended to get married at the center of the wall. However, it was years …

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Francis Alÿs – Can faith move a whole mountain?

Performances / 1 minute of reading

When Faith Moves Mountains or Cuando la fe mueve montañas was created by artist Francis Alÿs to explain the paradox of life; sometimes people make things that lead to nothing, while sometimes making nothing leads to remarkable things. 500 participants took part In this piece, Alÿs managed to persuade 500 participants made up primarily …

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Kacey Wong’s Paddling Home – A tiny house in Hong Kong

Architecture, Installations, Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong contemporary art scene. The project features deep architectural elements, which clearly appear in the design. The project …

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Shirin Neshat’s Rapture – Veiled women in traditional Islamic attire

Performances, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Rapture is a projection of black and white video where Iranian artist Shirin Neshat gives a narrative that concerns the differences between Muslim women and men. Neshat has used the video projection to explore the cultural and social role of women in the Islamic World and shot the work in Morocco with a cast …

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Why did Ai Weiwei break this million-dollar Han Dynasty vase?

Performances / 4 minutes of reading

Ai Weiwei’s desire to court controversy Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn as an artwork is brilliant and a work of total ingenuity, but in between the lines, it says a lot about the artist: his desire to court controversy. The return of Ai Weiwei to China after living in New York City for more than …

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Why did He Yunchang carry this stone around Great Britain for 112 days?

Performances / 5 minutes of reading

Chinese performance artist He Yunchang has been using his body as the main prop in his art pieces. His performances are often hard on endurance, and he has to go to the extremes to showcase his might. He Yunchang carries stone around the perimeter of Great Britain On 23 September 2006, he collected a …

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