performances

- MIRALLES Fina, Petjades, 1976. As a member of the school of conceptual Catalan art from the 1970s, Fina Miralles (1950, Spain) early works were strongly influenced by Arte Povera, land art and an incipient environmentalist-feminist thought. The art-life...

- KALSTRÖM Line Skywalker, At Danse Et Faengsel, 2010. (video) Line Skywalker Karlström (1971, Sweden, Denmark) is a Swedish performance artist who works with a diverse range of materials dealing with the role of art in life, lesbian and gay identity...

- KOZYRA Katarzyna, Olimpia, 1996. After studying at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Katarzyna Kozyra (1963, Poland, Italy, Germany) decided she no longer wanted to make sculptures and began working with photography, video, performances and installations...

- KOZYRA Katarzyna, Cheerleaderka, 2006. After studying at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, Katarzyna Kozyra (1963, Poland, Italy, Germany) decided she no longer wanted to maje sculptures and began working with photography, video, performances and installations...

- KOVACEVSKA Verica, I Must Be, 2003 (video) Verica Kovacevska was born in 1982 in Skopje and studied in UK. She is known for live performances in which she directly integrates the audience and surroundings. In ‘‘Walking Project’’ (since 2006), she candily...

- KOVYLINA Elena, Waltz, 2001. Elena Kovylina (1971, Russia) was part of the radical Moscow Actionism in the 1990s, but she developped her own method of staging scenarios with extreme precision. She completed most of her studies in Zurich and Moscow in...

- LADIK Katalin, The Screaming Hole, Tribina mladlh, Novi Sad, 1979 (also 1978 and 1996). Katalin Ladik (1942, Serbia) performs her artistic work on the radio, in the theatre and, finally, in the world of visual art. A writer of poems, she transfers poetic...

- LADIK Katalin, Poemim (Poemask), 1980. Katalin Ladik (1942, Serbia) performs her artistic work on the radio, in the theatre and, finally, in the world of visual art. A writer of poems, she transfers poetic language to other filds of expression, suc...

- PINDELL Howardena, Free, White and 21, 1980. (vidéo) After studying painting in Boston and at Yale, Howardena Pindell mostly created abstract paintings and paper collages. Her radical formalism went against the expectations of the art world, where African-American...

- LANG Alice, Comforter, 2009. Comforter is made from a second hand bed spread that has been cut, sewn, and stuffed using a technique derived from cutwork embroidery. The final sculpture was used as a performative object in my solo exhibition ‘‘Remains’’...

- HOOVER Nan, Light Dissolves, 1975. Nan Hoover (1931-2008, USA, Germany) studied in Washington , DC, before she moved to Amsterdam in 1969 and became a Dutch citizen. She taught video and film at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1987 to 1997. In 2007,...

- HERSHMAN Lynn, Commercials for ‘‘Forming a Sculpture Drama in Manhattan’’, 1974. In five TV commercials, men and women of different racial backgrounds explain that they are Lynn Hershman. The commercials were advertisements for Hershman’s site-specific...

- HERSHMAN Lynn & COPPOLA Eleanor, Dante Hotel, San Francisco, 1973. — Lynn Hershman’s work comprises photography, video, film and installation. She also is a pioneer of computer art. She studied art with a major in art criticism at San Francisco State...

- EXPORT Valie, Hyperbulie, 1973. — Valie Export (1940, Austria) is one of Austria’s most prominent artists since the late 1960s and was one of the most important pioneers of feminist art in the 1960s and 70s. She explores radical questions about the...

- EXPORT Valie, Tapp und Task Kino (Touch Cinema), 1968. — Valie Export (1940, Austria) is one of Austria’s most prominent artists since the late 1960s and was one of the most important pioneers of feminist art in the 1960s and 70s. She explores radical...

- CORREA Nieves, The Shooting Star 1, 2006. With her own body as a measure and using black adhesive tape, the artist constructs a room for target practice with six targets in an interior space. Once the scene is prepared, she covers her eyes and ‘shoots’...

- DUAN Yingmei, Sleepwalker, 2002. Yingmei Duan (1969, China, Germany) was a member of the East Village artist’s colony in Beijing and took part in their performance ‘‘To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain’’ in 1995, which achieved international fame....

- DOUJAK Ines, Dirty Old Women, 2005. Salzburger Kunstverein. (photo: Rainer Iglar & Herman Seidl) In her photography, collages, installations and performances, Ines Doujak (1959, Austria) explores social constructions, such as stereotypes, gender roles,...

- BEN-DAVID Anat & ALTENHAUS Adrienne, Tearing Off A Piece, 2009. Anat Ben-David (1970, Israel, UK) was one of Israel’s few video pioneers and has been living in London as a video and performance artist since 1999. She continues to cooperate with the...

- BEAN Anne, Moody and the Menstruators, 1971-1974. In 1968, Anne Bean (1950, Zambia, UK) arrived in Great Britain to study art. Since then, she has developed a body of works that cannot be sufficiently described using medial categories. Sound and music...

- COLETTE, Street Works, 1971-1979. Colette has been living in New York since the 1970s. She is an artist who embodies the fusion of art and life. She plays with roles and changes identities in radical ways in order to transform art into a space for living...

- COBLE Mary, Blood Script, 2008. Blood Script was a live performance piece that took place at the PULSE art Fair at Pier 40 in NYC, NY in 2008. The artist meticulously documented inscriptions from three previous marker (DC, NYC and Madrid). Performances...

- DISBAND, Every Day Same Old Way, 1979. Video Performances. 1978-1982. DISBAND (USA, 1978-1982) was an all-girl punk and a capella band none of whose members were able to play an instrument. Their singing was accompanied by percussion sounds created...

- IVEKOVIC Sanja, Triangle, 1979. « The action takes place on the day of the President’s visit to the city, and it develops as intercommunication between three persons: 1. a person on the roof of a tall building across the street from my apartment; 2....