Performance Art

Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane considers the works of two pioneers of performance art. Jonas (born 1936) and Pane (19391990) lived ...

To name something is to call it into life, to determine its future. If we let our children name themselves, will they author their own destinies? W...

As part of the 60s and '70s fashion movement, Peter Goldings famous ACE boutique in Londons Chelsea brought him into regular contact with the bigge...

This book is for you if: you want to reflect on the big questions of life - suffering, injustice, faith; you find the Old Testament a bit wieldy an...

Since the 1970s, Swiss artist Manon has been confronting observers with their own vision. Her performances raise question about the boundary betwee...

In this Footbook, Phil Smith (Mytho, Crab Man) extends his critical account of the gentle walking arts to the predatory lurch of the living dead. ...

A Bigger Splash will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Taking its title fr...

In answering the question posed by its title, and drawing on his twenty year relationship with the artists, Michael Bracewell is the first writer t...