UCSC Professor Elizabeth Stephens – videointerview published by DobroFilms, May 2012. UCSC Art Professor and former Chair of the Art Department, UC David PhD Candidate, wife to Annie Sprinkle, performance artist, sculptor, Elizabeth Stephens talked with Nada Miljkovic for KZSC’s Artist on Art about her work as an eco-activist and…
Category: Performance
Doc Shop 6: The Powerhouse by ONFB, National Film Board of Canada This short documentary by Shawn Thompson is about La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse and Feminism. Located in Montreal, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse is the oldest feminist art gallery in Canada. An exhibition space focusing on the diverse feminisms and…
To Dance a Prison (13:00 min with sound) by Line Skywalker Karlström, 2010. Camera and photo: Frederike Hansen re.act.feminism #2 – a performing archive is a continually expanding, temporary and living performance archive travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013. It presents feminist, gendercritical and queer performance art by over…
Line Skywalker Karlström, Performance, 2004 Published at Youtube by MrLineskywalkerful, 11/09/2009 Feminist performance artist and queer woman Line Skywalker Karlström (Sweden/Denmark) is blurring the boundaries between humans and animals in this performance from 2004. Line descibes her performance, as one in which she “appears as a somewhat deranged elk, running around…
Press release by Caroline Smith Cross posted at www.carolinesmithonline.com Mertle Merman’s BUTOH CLEANSE ‘N’ QUEER UP Mertle – performance artist Caroline Smith’s alter ego – joins the Avant Gardeners (http://www.avantgardening.org) at the Hayward Gallery, London SE1, UK Sunday 17th June at 3pm for a Butoh-inspired ritual cleanse and queer up…
Caroline Smith, Drawing on Experience, Tate Modern – 27 June 2009 from Oriana Fox on Vimeo. Camerawork: Richard Canham & Francesca Ungaro. Drawing on Experience by Caroline Smith Caroline Smith’s homage to Bobby Baker’s ‘Drawing on a Mother’s Experience’ (1988) involved the divulging of other people’s eating secrets, spilling and…
The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar, by Jess Dobkin. Photo credit: David Hawe Quench your curiosity at the Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar! Audiences are invited to ‘quench their curiosity’ by tasting samples of pasteurized human breast milk at The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar, an interactive performance art piece…
Commitment Issues – Curated by Jess Dobkin takes place November 16 + 17, 2011 in Toronto, Canada. The event presents an selection of works by international performance artists and in addition to the evening of performance art, the artists and curator speak about the work and the event in a…
Feminists in Space – International feminist qerformance art festival, November 9-13, 2011 at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curatorial Statement We are pleased to announce Feminists in Space – the first feminist performance festival ever to be held in Copenhagen. Feminists in Space was initially the title for a feminist blog…
i don’t need your help from Manmeet Devgun on Vimeo November 18 – 25, 2011. The Nigah QueerFest ’11 is celebrating sexualities for the fifth time this year in New Delhi. The Solo Show Project presents: I Don’t Need Your Help By Manmeet Devgun, India Abadi Art Space F213/A First…
Tatlin’s Whisper #5, 2007; Crowd control at Tate Modern, London, UK by Cuban visual artist Tania Bruguera. Performed live at Tate Modern on January 26-27, 2008 (Published by Tate in 2008). Related Link Tania Bruguera’s webpage
Double Bind / 4 min / France
Filmmaker: Gilivanka Kedzior and Barbara Friedman (aka Red Bind)
Promo Video
Dirtstar 2011: Take Root invitation to Performance and Closing Party, June 19 featuring a Glitter Bike Ride by Anthea Black and Mr. & Mrs. Keith Murray as the Glittertwins and many other amazing queer artists at the Tenderloin National Forest, 509 Ellis St, San Francisco, USA
Queer artist María DeGuzmán asks: Where would you like your artwork to appear? On gallery walls, in private collections, on the Internet, in magazines, in and on books?
The official performance festival of the 2011 National Queer Arts Festival takes place June 27 – June 30 2011 in San Francisco, California.
The Gestical Abject: Myspacedotcom. Homage to Cindy Sherman. A video by Johanna Bruckner
ArtGasm is a series of exhibits, live art making, performance art, and multi media art installations presented by Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, on a quarterly basis. April 2010: ArtGasm: Sadie Lune’s Biological Clock
Artist statement by Jess Dobkin: I approach performance art as an inherently subversive practice. My performances challenge the status quo, transgress boundaries and envision alternate realities. …
Purple Wedding to the Moon performance by Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens is on. The Purple wedding team has won the right to continue with their plans. Today they have announced that the LA Parks and Rec Department has withdrawn its cancellation of Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens wedding performance in LA, USA.