Performance Art Movies

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...

"The once teeming Riverview Park was shut down in 1967 (with Tom Palazzolo on hand to document the bitter end). The Tattooed Lady of Riverview is a...

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.

Live performance film produced to celebrate the release of The Subliminal Rabbit Presents!

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted...

Sinus Beta is almost a sort of teaching film about bodily behavior in different situations. The film also produces, through the heterogenic...

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

From an inverted position, high above the floor, the camera records Nauman’s trek back and forth and across the studio; his stamping creates a...

Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...

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...

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

In some way, to all of those who took me along at doors and windows opennings wich I never jumped of.

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

A ritual of transformation and awakening within the walls of the only existing original ‘diorama’ building in London

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 post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

An exploration of the Cultural Revolution that depicts both its chaotic later years – through the story of a squad of Red Army guards running...

The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and performers. This Is Not a Dream explores the...

Dusking is a project by the artist Lucy Wright—a newly invented tradition, conceived as the counterpart to the morris dancing that takes place...