Category Archives: Collaboration
Fritz Haeg
1. Do you now or have you ever considered yourself a performance artist? Sure! Plus anything else people might want to call me. If so, when did you begin to identify yourself as a performance artist? When I read it … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Collaboration, Conceptual, Dance, Ecology, Everyday, Social Practice
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Emily Mast
Emily Mast, Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), 2009, performance (Roski Gallery, Los Angeles) photo: Mackenzie Hoffman 1. Do you consider yourself a performance artist? I don’t consider myself a performance artist per-say. I consider myself an artist who makes temporal … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Conceptual, Dance, Durational, Ephemeral, Everyday, Experimental Theater, Humor, Los Angeles, Sculpture, Spectacle, Theater
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Julie Tolentino
“Honey” from Cry of Love by Julie Tolentino Berlin: House of World Cultures, 2009. Photo by Gökhan Gültepe 1. When did you begin to identify as a performance artist? I have never (quite) used this term – though double-dipped as … Continue reading
Notes on Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Museum of Fetishized Identities, 1999-2002 Excerpt from “El Corrido Del Eterno Retorno” by Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Mi trabajo artistico en el accidentado terreno del performance comenzó a cobrar forma, sentido y peso de mi nueva condición de “emigrante indeseable.” Los gabachos … Continue reading
Posted in 1980s, 1990s, Border Art, California, Collaboration, Costumes, Identity Art, Los Angeles, Political, Video, Violence
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Sonya Robbins
1. Do you consider yourself a performance artist? For the past few years I’ve cycled through a range of terminology. I used to refer to myself as a ‘choreographer’ which then evolved into a ‘movement artist’ and in the last … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Conceptual, Dance, Durational, Everyday, Humor, New York, Video
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Notes on Bob & Bob
Bob & Bob “Who Are Bob & Bob?” Los Angeles, 1980 Kurcfeld, Michael, “Bob & Bob Get Serious: Be Straight with Bob & Bob & Bob & Bob Will Be Straight With you,” High Performance, no. 6, v.2, June 1979, … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Alter Ego, California, Clowning, Collaboration, Collage/mash-up, Conceptual, Durational, Everyday, Humor, Los Angeles, Music
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Zackary Drucker
8. Who/what inspires your most recent body of work? My latest piece, which I’m premiering at Movement Research Festival in NYC in 2 days, is inspired by tropes of drag performance and spectacle. Using the classic power reversal of drag queen … Continue reading
Posted in Body Art, Collaboration, Durational, Endurance, Everyday, Experimental Theater, Feminist, Humor, Los Angeles, Political, Queer, Spectacle, Spoken Word, Trans, Video
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