Adrian Piper's Mythic Being performances critically engaged wtih popular representations of race, gender, sexuality and class; confronting viewers and forcing them to reconsider assumptions about the social construction of identity. An in-depth analysis of Piper's work.

Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith and Nikki S Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender and class boundaries in works they have concieved and performed. Cherise Smith analyses their engagements with issues of identity through close readings of perfromances by each artist.

Video work accompanying the homonymous durational performance in which the artist imitates the hairstyles of four famous men. The video consists of found footage of the four public figures mixed with performance material. Performers: Oreet Ashery, Andrew Mitchelson and Owen Parry.

Performance video commissioned by Picture This, Bristol, as part of “Ghosting”, a series of research-based commissions on the themes of archive, memory and ethnography.

DVD of performance conceived and Directed by Young Jean Lee

Series of portraits

Work in progress footage of performance in 2013

Discussion of works and creative process of Helen Chadwick in relation to architecture, the body, and identity

This item is part of the ‘Glimpses of before: 1970s UK Performance Art’ Study Room Guide by Helena Goldwater (P2497)

A description of more than 60 projects from the last ten years, following the personal journey of the performer

Part of a bilingual series of DVD presenting performance documentations, artist’ work and interviews