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The term "performance art" and "performance" became widely used in the 1970s, even though the history of performance in visual arts dates back to futurist productions and cabarets from the 1910s. [ 6 ] [ 1 ] Art critic and performance artist John Perreault credits Marjorie Strider with the invention of the term in 1969. [ 7 ]
Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance art, sculpture, and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including Shoot (1971), where he arranged for a friend to shoot him in the arm with a small-caliber rifle. A prolific artist, Burden created ...
The Basement Workshop, an Asian American alternative space for arts and community activism, opened in Chinatown, NYC, in 1970, and the alternative space A.I.R. Gallery opened in Soho in September 1972 as a women's co-op gallery. [3] The Kitchen, an avant-garde performance space, was established in New York in 1971. Around the same time, And/Or ...
In 1970, with Peter Kennedy (born 1945 [1]) and Tim Johnson, [2] Parr established "Inhibodress", an artist cooperative and alternative space for conceptual art, performance art and video art, after the Tin Sheds had paved the way for such spaces. [3]
Rolfe moved to Ireland in 1974, working at the Project Arts Centre. [8] [9] In the late 1970s, Rolfe became active in performance art. [10]According to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, his work "encompasses installation, drawing, photography, video and audio media, and examines the influence of history on the individual and society."
January 16 – John Lennon's exhibition of Bag One at the London Arts Gallery is shut down by Scotland Yard for displaying "erotic lithographs".; October - In celebration of her large gift of art works (including ones by Gauguin, Mary Cassatt, and Picasso, ) to the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco from the collection assembled by her late husband Thomas Edward Hanley, Tullah Hanley throws an ...
[2] [3] The canvas was the house itself and almost every wall, floor and ceiling became part of the gallery and performance space. The rooms of the house were inspired by Pop Art, Surrealism, Dada and Conceptualism. [4] Overseas visitors to the Yellow House included members of the rock band Pink Floyd, Marty Feldman and David Litvinoff. [5] [6]
Seedbed is a performance piece first performed by Vito Acconci on 15–29 January 1972 at Sonnabend Gallery in New York City. In the piece, there is a low wooden ramp merging with the floor. The ramp extends across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor.