Performance Art Movies

This work re-examines the relationship between the elements that make up the quality of space, namely: "subject" and "object", "organic" and "mechanic...

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

"Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity" says the bible. The word flows from the tongue naming the pleasure of earthly life and judging it as beauti...

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

Dusking is a project by the artist Lucy Wright—a newly invented tradition, conceived as the counterpart to the morris dancing that takes place on 1 Ma...

A documentary about the Kosmos collective in Timisoara: a self-organized group of artists, curators, and musicians who revived a former textile factor...

Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses t...

Single channel video filmed on location in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were inter...

One of a series of ‘falls’ by Bas Jan Ader that he recorded on film, this work was filmed in West Kapelle, Holland in 1970.

A performance video piece by activist artist Tasha Diamant. "In which cops are called to an art expression/protest/street performance because nudity....

A lonely character braving a steep mountain attempting to reach its peak. As he journeys the mountain, he is forced to confront a plethora of internal...

A time-based piece was recorded by performance artist/activist Tasha Diamant. Once again, police use state apparatus to quell legal free expression. T...

A poetic tale of a conversation.

Where Marina Abramović's shocking debut performance was censored in Amsterdam fifty years ago, now she's considered a superstar. How can new generatio...

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

An experimental short where one's footsteps create sound on a piano, creaks and all.

Out O' Actions documents Kelley and McCarthy's preliminary activities in organizing a project for the Visitor's Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary...

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from entering the...