Performance

Informed by the legacies of funk and jazz, the artist’s many collaborations are given space to shine

The artist’s nine-day performance in the museum’s galleries ties the migration of peoples and objects to the systems that control and classify them 

‘People younger than myself will be under the false impression that performance has always been taken seriously’

Karen Archey on Ligia Lewis and Alex Baczynski-Jenkins

Experience live bodycasting and painting, augmented reality sculpture and a Western-style whiskey bar at Frieze London 2019

The artist’s physically gruelling performances reflect on the black body and the possibilities of resurrection

Performed images in contemporary art and everyday life

The Singaporean artist’s provocative performances constantly challenged power and prejudice

Fabian Schöneich on the artist’s new performance at Kunsthalle Basel

From blues to jazz to the baroque – new fiction from Claire-Louise Bennett

Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once

Drawing on his dancer’s training, Laris Cohen radically presents his body simply ‘as is’ in his performances

Barbara Casavecchia on the 2019 Golden Lion-winning artist

A new workshop responds to hierarchies in arts education 

The two artists and long-time collaborators speak to Evan Moffitt about the influence of Fluxus, the importance of improvisation and the challenge of reckoning with art history 

An exhibition at Platform Southwark, London, celebrates the legacy of the radical drag theatre company

A new show at Richard Saltoun begs the question – how effective is self-inflicted violence?

The provocative New York performance artist talks about her influences – from surfing to Jack Smith

Scherer’s ‘didactic operetta’ at Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin, mimics a world of debased authority

An exhibition at Index, Stockholm, fuses activism, queer performance and pop music