Body Press, Dan Graham

Body Press is a seminal piece of performance art with a mix of 8mm film incorporated into it. It was conceived by Dan Graham in 1970. Two filmmakers stand within a surrounding and completely mirrorized cylinder, body trunk stationary, hands holding and pressing a camera’s back-end flush to, while slowly rotating it about, the surface cylin-der of their individual bodies.

Mit Schisslaveng, John Bock

Bock is a German artist who makes installation, sculpture, video art, theater and opera. In this video he performs an action: Bock opens a can of raviolis, pours them out, and eats them with a spoon attached to a chair.

2012, Ronnie Bass

Ronnie Bass is a young New York City based visual artist. 2012 is a performance video where music and lyrics play an important role in transmitting a context of serene intrigue.

Empathy, Catherine Sullivan

American artist Catherine Sullivan’s anxiety-inducing films and live performances reveal the degree to which everyday gestures and emotional states are scripted and performed, probing the border between innate and learned behavior.

The Kitchen:Homage to Saint Therese, Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic is a Serbian artist, considered the most relevant performance artist alive. The Kitchen is a project by Abramovic in which she pays homage to Saint Therese of Avila. It was performed, filmed and photographed at the Laboral art centre in Gijón, Spain.

475 Volver, Cinthia Marcelle

Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle uses video and photography to document the effects her slight interventions have on the usual order of things

I Like Girls in Uniform (2/2), Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer.

I Like Girls in Uniform (1/2), Coco Fusco

Coco Fusco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer.

Samples of Work, Chelpa Ferro

The Brazilian artists Barrão, Luiz Zerbini, Sergio Mekler work under the brand Chelpa Ferro. They produce multimedia pieces, videoart, installations and performance. Here a few samples of their fresh and irreverent work.

Interview, Zhang Huan

Zhang Huan is China’s most known performance artist. He lives between Shanghai and New York. In this video interview he explains why he stopped making performance art and where he gets his inspiration from.