Tag Archives: performance


Michael Crowe & Lenka Clayton

Mysterious Letters‘, by Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton, is a large scale writing project with the goal of sending a letter to everyone in the world.

In November 2009, 620 letters were sent to each home in Polish Hill, Pittsburgh, USA.


Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark, ‘Window Blow-Out’ (1976), Document of action, 8 black-and-white photographs

Window Blow-Out shows a derelict housing project in the Bronx with its windows bursted out. In the performance, the artist shot at the windows of the empty building with a BB gun.


Kelly Nipper

Kelly Nipper, ‘Circle Circle’ (2007)

Watch an excerpt of the video here


Sophie Tauber-Arp

Sophie Tauber-Arp and her sister, dressed in costumes that Tauber-Arp designed for an interpretive dance to a poem by Hugo Ball. (1916)


The Society of Beaux-Arts Architects

A photograph from the 1931 Society of Beaux Arts Architects Costume Ball, where architects traditionally dress up as their best/most famous building.

In front and center is William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building.


Murray Gaylard

Murray Gaylard, ‘Streetlamp for an inferiority complex’ (2011)

Click here to see a documentational video of the work.


Tatsumi Orimoto

Tatsumi Orimoto, from the series ‘Bread man’ (1991-2007)


Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer, ‘Noisette’ (2009)


Matthew Ronay

‘Emerging Pods’, a performance piece by Matthew Ronay


Dragoljub Rasa Todosijevic

Dragoljub Raša Todosijevic, ‘Balkan Banquet’ (2002) from the series ‘Gott liebt die Serben’