An event that could include a diverse range of actions, movements, gestures, and choreography. Performance is often preceded by, includes, or is later represented through various forms of video, photography, objects, written documentation, or oral and physical transmission.
Performance
8 examples
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Pope.L How Much is that Nigger in the Window a.k.a. Tompkins Square Crawl 1991
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Kevin Beasley I Want My Spot Back 2011-2012
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Andrés Jaque Ikea Disobedients 2011
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Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, No.1 2008
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Michelangelo Pistoletto Seventeen Less One 2008
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Roman Ondak Measuring the Universe 2007
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Tania Bruguera Untitled (Havana, 2000) 2000
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Carolee Schneemann Meat Joy 1964
Magazine
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Agosto Machado’s New York
In honor of World AIDS Day, the artist and activist speaks to filmmaker Tourmaline about his work and the city’s queer history.Nov 30, 2022 -
Hyundai Card Video Views
Shigeko Kubota’s Self-Portrait
Watch the artist create a new visual language for personal exploration in this exclusive two-week screening.Oct 13, 2021 -
Picturing MoMA: Sara Cwynar
For the commissioned series Modern Art in Your Life, the artist examines the stories we tell through images.Sep 19, 2019