Rare visual records of interventions, performance pieces and happenings from the period before 1989.
3h 14min
See also: Czech Action Art – Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain (P2959).
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain
Action Art, similar to performance art but not requiring an audience, emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. Until now this movement has received little critical attention, as the Iron Curtain prevented its dissemination to an international audience.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
This publication engaged with the critical investigation of the historic connection between the domination of nature and women. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).
Richard Ashrowan considers the geopoetics of the Anglo/Scots borderline, travelling to several points on the border and beginning a meditation into the meanings that might be revealed within its landscape
This collection features all 51 images from performance artist Eleanor Antin's epic visual narrative. Introduction by Henry Sayre
Regina Jose Galindo dencounces violence women and, more generally, the social, political and cultural violence of contemporary society.
The exhibition presented in this catalogue was inspired by an unexpected incident. A tree fell on the Finnish Aalto Pavilion in 2011 and the exhibition had to be closed. What was originally an inconvenience became a source of inspiration for three curators from Finland. Falling Trees by Mika Elo, Marko Karo and Harri Laakso revisits this disruption of an art event and creates an opportunity to see art and nature differently.
7 Shorts by Boldizsar Csernak-Risko, Dawn, Buka, A Single Glass of Water Lights up the World, Dusk, Kariatides, Somewhere Down Above the Skies, Slithering,
Examines the relationship between an ethics of performance, a politics of place and a poetics of the urban environment.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
On public art in the YSP.