Cutting Through Time: Performance, Paper, and Rebirth.
15 March 2025 • Jordan Chan
Taking place at the Somerset House between the 7th and the 19th of March is the ‘Blooming on Paper’ exhibition…. Read More
Tag: performance art
Ayisha Mi’s “Zhao Di”(Unborn Daughters) REVIEW
1 February 2024 • Guest
The video titled “Zhao Di” (Unborn Daughters), an art performance by Ayisha Mi, has garnered over 2 million views and engaged with over 100,000 individuals across various major social media platforms worldwide.
Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis)10-hr durational performance
11 December 2023 • Mark Westall
Fading Out of Dead Air (Transmissions for the Necropolis) is the third and final part of writer and performance artist… Read More
E-WERK Luckenwalde to present the largest scale solo show to date by Berlin-based artist & choreographer Melanie Jame Wolf
17 August 2023 • Mark Westall
E-WERK Luckenwalde to present the largest scale solo show to date by Berlin-based artist and choreographer Melanie Jame Wolf. The Creep is an exhibition that includes a new film installation, ceramic works, textile sculptures, and performance.
Unbound: Performance As Rupture curated by: Lisa Long at the Julia Stoschek Foundation.
14 August 2023 • Mark Westall
The Julia Stoschek Foundation will open an extensive group exhibition in Berlin with 41 works by 36 artists that trace… Read More
More details released for Marina Abramovic at the Royal Academy of Arts
4 May 2023 • Mark Westall
This autumn, the Royal Academy of Arts will present the first major solo survey in the UK of the work of internationally acclaimed Serbian performance artist and Honorary Royal Academician, Marina Abramovic (b. 1946).
Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome – INCHOATE BUZZ
13 April 2023 • Mark Westall
This April, join choreographer Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and invited artists SERAFINE1369, Eve Stainton and Isabel Rosa Muñoz-Newsome for an immersive performance experience.
A TIME TO TEAR, A TIME TO MEND
6 October 2022 • Mark Westall
A time to tear, a time to mend explores the advent of wisdom collection through ecological, historical, somatic, and technological… Read More
Pioneering performance artist Marina Abramovic to present a new site-specific performance-based work at Modern Art Oxford.
18 August 2022 • Mark Westall
Marina Abramovic presents a new site-specific performance-based work at Modern Art Oxford exploring heightened awareness and transitional states of being.
Franko B “I’m Here” a new performance
9 September 2021 • Mark Westall
I’m Here is a new performance by Franko B, in collaboration with Anthony Martin. Known internationally as a pioneering performance… Read More
Review: Tino Sehgal pushes people out of their comfort zone at Blenheim Palace
19 July 2021 • Tabish Khan
Break free of British sensibility.
Performance Exchange: a dispersed performance programme in 10 commercial galleries over 3 days
8 July 2021 • Mark Westall
Performance Exchange has announced its inaugural live programme, taking place in collaboration with 10 commercial galleries over three days from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th July 2021.
Marina Abramovic + WePresent exclusive year-long collab
16 March 2021 • Mark Westall
WePresent, the editorial platform of WeTransfer has revealed an exclusive collab Marina Abramovi?, beginning with its inaugural Guest Curator Series.
Andree Martis TORRESTA an interactive performance
27 October 2020 • Mark Westall
A process of transformation is happening inside this cosmic space: in 7 minutes, one conceives a deep connection to oneself…. Read More
What’s the afterlife of performed artworks? ‘Forum: Bread and games’ investigates
10 March 2020 • Irene Machetti
How do we perceive objects when they become “activated” by a performer? Can there be, thereafter, a neutral spectatorship? ‘Forum: Bread and Games’, curated by Natalija Pauni for Open Space Contemporary, reflects on these questions, considering the precariousness of authors’ ideas and authorship.
Seulgi Kang – Performance Art / Screening
18 November 2019 • Mark Westall
Seulgi Kang’s works deal with breaking down the simplicity and complexity of the ‘every day’. It communicates an understanding of a transitory feeling that she has experienced throughout her life as an artist, woman, and stranger in her surrounding reality. She is questioning her environment, balance and power relations, the rules that for her seem to have already been granted by default.
Performance of new work by Dimitris Papaioannou: Sisyphus / Trans / Form
11 November 2019 • Hannah Hayes-Westall
The site specific performance commissioned by Collezione Maramotti responds to a world class private collection with challenges about meaning and our interaction with the material world.
Sam Williams Latent Commons
22 October 2019 • Staff
Salvage Rhythms is a piece about becoming. Devised by Sam Williams as part of his ongoing project Latent Commons, this performance work was presented at Somerset House AGM, alongside a live sound score in collaboration with the musician Roly Porter.
Mimetic food: how Heather Sincavage exposes trauma, and heals from it
16 April 2019 • Irene Machetti
Read my interview with Heather Sincavage. The performace artists employs food metaphoric properties (both symbolically and visually) to explore and explode trauma.
Block Universe: 2019 London programme + expansion to Berlin for 5th anniversary
21 February 2019 • Mark Westall
Block Universe, London’s leading performance art festival and international commissioning body, will return to London from 18 May to 2 June 2019, with an expanded 14-day programme of new work, premieres, talks, screenings, and workshops, from a wide range of artists, both local and international.
ART PROOF podcast episode 1: John Costi
23 September 2018 • Eric Thorp
Art Proof is a new art podcast conceived and hosted by arts journalist Eric Thorp, creative project coordinator Nicholas Stavri and painter Rowan Newton.
Block Universe, London’s International Performance Art Festival, kicks off this Spring Bank Holiday Weekend
21 May 2018 • Mark Westall
Block Universe’s nine-day programme ranges from new commissions, UK premiers, dance workshops to talks and special projects in prominent cultural institutions including the Royal Academy, British Museum, Somerset House, The Store X, Studio Voltaire, Oval Space, Thames Tunnel at the Brunel Museum, and more.
The Top 7 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week 11/02/18
11 February 2018 • Tabish Khan
Turn black and white, cactus seduction, a pussyhat, witchcraft, a palaeontology dig, tar and suspended by the tongue.
FUCK YOU WHERES MY SUGER? – 4-5 August, Cafe Oto, London
9 August 2017 • Staff
Artists Lucy Stein and Mark Harwood have fomented a technique of combative curation that militates against against the normal pleasantries of social events.