Performance Art Movies

The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain...

A group of people return to see the feast.

Performance art. Two men are stuck in an enclosed space.

Living Lines is a series of performances and poetry by artist Stephanie Trujillo documented as a short film, drawing inspiration from her Peruvian...

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and...

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

Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

A figure is manipulated via a rope leading off screen.

"We are beginning a new era of Maya world view that is associated with important events. Departing from an interdisciplinary investigation,...

During the Royal Academy of Arts’ annual open studios, three world-champion gurners process through the institution’s cast corridor,...

Dusking is a project by the artist Lucy Wright—a newly invented tradition, conceived as the counterpart to the morris dancing that takes place...

How do we react when a gun is fired? Even if it is only aimed at something that is supposedly lifeless? Tom Dale raises these questions in his work...

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

Identically dressed and with sibling-like resemblance, performance artists Trevor Martin and Kym Olsen shift between spoken word and athletic dance...

My Body Is Not My Home is a 3D animated short film following the journey of an uncanny simulacrum who undergoes the process of becoming the...

A performance art piece in which the artist makes themself shed tears over a period of time.

The film focuses on an audition to select an actor that best interprets the role of Jesus, judged by a jury of Vatican members.