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.

Documentation of a site-specific performance made for the disused Marshall Street Baths, Soho and Star Dust commissioned by Live Art Development Agency for a Variety Weekend at the newly refurbished De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea.

Extract from “Soya Sauce and Ketchup Fight” street performance intervention in Trafalgar Square by Cai Yuan and Jian Jun Xi artistic duo known as “Mad for Real”.

Documentation of large scale performance using breeze blocks to build a temporary monument to celebrate Salisbury’s most famous and permanent one. Located and inspired by Salisbury cathedral, the piece involved 25 performers, singers and musicians, the Festival chorus and over 10,000 breeze blocks. The performance itself consisted of a network of proverbial and allegorical narratives which were given an architectural and sculptural form – a version of Breughel’s Netherlandish Proverbs.

A show in which the performer stars as himself in the attempt of creating a late-night talk show, aired on January 23, 1981.

Themed collections of performance documentation and works for camera projects addressing issues of borders/border crossings

Review concerned with the politicisation of public spaces in the Arab territories where uprisings turn cities into the scenography of intervention.

Special issue of the Australian magazine (December 2013/January 2014) dedicated to art and disability programs, projects, artists and companies

DVD created as a collation of the “Party for Freedom” project through documentation of live events, live music concerts, live performances and a large-scale three-screen video installation

Publication on Joan Jonas’ experimental projects in the late sixties and early seventies