Performance Art Movies

Dubbings, stunts, remixes, aesthetic covers. Diffuse, decentralized, peripheral, tipsy. Theme: an extemporaneous choreographic chanchada. Content:...

Balkan Erotic Epic explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations...

Performance art piece

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.

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...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

"As a contribution to Gerry Schum's 'Identifications', Beuys adapted for television the 'Felt TV' action previously staged for a live audience at a...

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

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from...

Performance art. Two men are stuck in an enclosed space.

This short film is part of a mixed media artwork of the same name, which also included postcards of Ader crying, sent to friends of his, with the...

In the film "You Don't Need Feet to Dance," African immigrant Sidiki Conde, having lost the use of his legs to polio at fourteen, balances his career...

McGuire constructs a murky black and white soap-opera world of endless, timeless, and placeless limbo, where the characters talk to each other...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

Using faux archival footage and social media, Adam Himebauch, 38, has created the alter-ego of an artist who rose to fame in the 1970s.

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

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

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...