Movies: Performance

In early 2012, Angela Washko founded “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft” as a performative intervention within the often misogynistic environment of World of Warcraft (WoW), one of the most popular multip...

In an earlier film, Playing A Note on the Violin While I Walk Around the Studio (Violin #1), Nauman played a single note on the violin as he walked around his studio. In this video work, he remains in a stationary position while he plays four strings...

A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense emotional experience with metaphysical overtones, an extension of my ultimate interest in a total fusion ...

In this audiovisual performance, Ed Atkins lyrically explores the subject of depression and the digital age....

For this work Alÿs purchased a gun in Mexico City then walked through the city streets with the weapon in his hand. After eleven minutes he was arrested by the police. The following day he repeated the action, this time in cooperation with the police...

With £2.50 in their bank accounts, two friends Saoirse and Emma vow to have the greatest night of their lives at a punk poetry party. They discuss the current state of their lives while determined to keep the little riots inside of them alive....

Josh-awan Bulman details some highlights of the Zhuang Alliance Group's Style Guide....

After passing out, Louise, playing Dorothy in her senior production of The Wizard of Oz, must fight to go on-stage while navigating the selfish interests of her co-stars in this fantastical ode to musical theater....

ANA C. uses videoart and videoperformance to express the relationship between the marginalized poet Ana Cristina Cesar with art itself....

Joy Brown (Billie Dean) is a 40-something woman with little confidence, less self-esteem and a burning desire to realise her dream of being a singer/songwriter. But she cant sing. When Joy takes in a stray dog, Raffi, her life immediately changes. H...

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"It's a performance during which I google the phrase "1 year old black boy" ascending in age to the age of 18. I allow Google's "popular searches" algorithm to predict what comes after the phrase and peruse the results based on what Google thinks I w...

Here is the premiere of Don Rickles Live Mystic Lake 2010! Filmed at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in 2010. Presented by Winbrook Entertainment in association with Wynnefield Productions, this legendary performance is a testament to Don Rickles' comedic ...

Eleni Mylonas’ SeaMonster II, is a performance for the camera drawing attention to the problem of plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea. In this work the artist stages her own body --a mature body which has experienced and has been nourished by ...

BAND-MAID's first Online Okyu-Ji in response for recent concert cancellations due to COVID restrictions....

Ado SPECIAL LIVE 2024 "Shinzou" was held on April 27th and 28th, 2024, and attracted 140,000 people over the two days. The LIVE Blu-ray & DVD of Ado SPECIAL LIVE 2024 "Shinzou", the first solo live performance by a female solo artist at the National ...

Violin Film #1 (Playing the Violin as Fast as I Can), is one of several 1967-68 films featuring Nauman's violin-playing, in which the production of sound is subjected to procedural strategies that problematize its status as music and performance....

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Film follows Haide and Toomas, husband and wife in life and in art Piip and Tuut through the hard work of the creation of their new clown show in the Botanical Garden of Tallinn, showing the intensity and poetry behind their craft and focusing on the...