Skip to Main Content

Performance Art: Books & Other Resources

Search Everything

 

Search for books, articles, images, media, etc.

Performance Art Online Resources

Selected Performance Art DVDs

Recommended Books on Performance Art

Janine Antoni at Cornell

Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect

Dangerous Games by Marina Abramovic

Research Question?

Ask at the Library Front Desk 
Email library@massart.edu
Call 617-879-7150

Sculpture: Richard Artschwager,
Question Mark, 1994 
Photo: Stefan Baudy, CC-BY License

Performance Art Journals

Print Journals on Art

Find Journal Articles

Get Background Information

Performance Art Websites

STREET PERFORMER RIGHTS
 
American Civil Liberties Union: What to do when stopped by the police etc.
 
 
 
PERFORMANCE ART SPACES
 
Mobius (est. 1977) is a non-profit, artist-run organization in Boston, whose mission is to generate, shape and test experimental art.
 
FADO Performance Art Centre (Fado Performance Inc.) is a non-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada.
 
HERE builds a community that nurtures career artists as they create innovative hybrid live performance in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media and visual art.
 
Yerba Buena Center for Arts.
 
MOMA Media and Performance Art.

https://www.moma.org/learn

 
ABOUT PERFORMANCE ART
 
Contemporary Performance is a social media / community organizing network of over 3800 members. The network provides artists, presenters, scholars and festivals a platform to meet, share work, and collaborate.
 
 
History of Performance Art Overview

Web Videos

John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.

Saul Williams performs his popular poetry piece Coded Language for Def Poetry Jam.

Janet Cardiff works.

Meredith Monk and Theo Bleckmann perform "Hocket" from "Facing North" live at the Lensic Center for the Performing Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2004.

Marina Abramovic discusses performance art for the New York Times Magazine.

Marina Abramovic, Seven Easy Pieces.

Christian Marclay discusses his interest in unwanted sound, his use of turntables, early examples of his art and more recent pieces too.

Vito Acconci, Open Book.

Carsten Holler, One Minute of Doubt (1999) 

DV8 Physical Theatre, Enter Achilles, the Film (2004)

Joan Jonas discussing Mirage at MOMA.

Joan Jonas Vertical Roll (1972)

Carolee Schneemann: "Meat Joy" (1964)

Carolee Schneemann, Snows (1967)

Chris Burden, Big Wrench (1980)

Yves Klein, Anthropometries of the Blue Period and Fire Paintings: Two Performances (1960)

Gilbert and George, Ten Commandments for Gilbert & George (1995)

Interview with LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya (2012)

Fernando Ribeiro, I Promise! at the Mobius / Boston • April 17th, 2012