Performance Art Movies

The rehearsal of a future play. Through the movement of the body, the protagonists form a structure full of tension and try to evoke past stories.

Following a four-month visit to Taiwan during the pandemic, New York-based artist Yo-Yo Lin shares a first-person account of returning to a place of...

Atoll, Victoriaville's contemporary art center, held its first and last fundraiser on December 12, 2023. During the event, artist Antoine Larocque,...

A mysterious light follows the surfaces of the virtual and tangible, the organic and inorganic and the habited and inhabited. A panoptic gaze is...

An experimental short where one's footsteps create sound on a piano, creaks and all.

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

Documentation of a performance to camera. An account of the experience of rape and its aftermath. Released on VHS tape in 1992.

A sonic, surrealist narration in which the musicians fingers’ are the protagonists. Reflecting on common hierarchies and roles of the fingers...

This video contains six life size boxes, made to measure. They are working models exploring how the architecture of the boxes (i.e. planes, axis and...

Performance art. Two men are stuck in an enclosed space.

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović challenges popular notions about what art is.