Performance Art Movies

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.

"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...

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

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

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...

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...

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.

A series of filmed interviews with Rebecca Horn, performance artist, filmmaker and sculptress whose work explores the themes of sexuality, human...

Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson

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...

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

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

A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first...

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

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

An overdressed girl tries her luck in dance events that are for Finnish tourists in a small Estonian health resort town, Pärnu.

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

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

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović challenges popular notions about what art is.