Performance Art: 1950's-1970's

1950’s

1954 Gutai Bijutsu Kyokai (Gutai Art Association) formed in Osaka by Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo, and Shimamoto Shozo

Shiraga Kazuo
1955 “Challenge to the Mud” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/shiraga_challengetothemud1955.jpg

1960’s

George Maciunas / Fluxus
1963 Fluxus Manifesto
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/maciunas_fluxusmanifesto1963.jpg

Shigeko Kubota / Fluxus
1965 Vagina Painting, Perpetual Fluxus Festival, New York, July 4, 1965
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/kubota_vaginapainting1965.jpg

Yoko Ono / Fluxus
*1965 “Cut Piece” http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dsvy_yoko-ono-cut-piece_shortfilms#.UKPC3eOe_-I

Joseph Beuys
1974 “I Like America and America Likes Me” Rene Block Gallery, New York
http://vimeo.com/29225407

Robert Whitman
1965/1976 Prune Flat http://blip.tv/microcinema/robert-whitman-performances-from-the-1960s-802957

Allan Kaprow
1964 “Household” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/kaprow_household1964.jpg
1966 “Gas” (Long Island) http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/kaprow_gas1966.jpg
1967 “Yard” http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/kaprow_yard_pasadena1967.jpg

Yvonne Rainer
“Five Easy Pieces” VCA 14537
1966 “Hand Movie” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED4ZjRiiavg
1966/1978 “Trio A” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aggv4jybdaY

Valie Export
1968 “Touch Cinema” VCA 13896 http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/export_touchcinema_1968_01.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/export_touchcinema-1968_02.jpg
1969 “Action Pants: Genital Panic”
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/export-action-pants_1969.jpg
*1973 “...remote...remote” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3R2qCEFnUU

Carolee Schneeman
1963 Eye Body http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/schneeman_eyebody1963.jpg
*1963-64 Meat Joy VCA 9742
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/schneeman_meatjoy1964judson.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/schneeman_meatjoy1964.jpg
1975 Interior Scroll http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/schneeman_interiorscroll1975.jpg

1970’s

Rebecca Horn
1970 Einhorn (Unicorn) http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/horn_unicorn1970.jpg
1972 White Body Fan http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/horn_whitebodyfan1972.jpg
1974 Berlin Exercises, Exercise 1: Scratching Both Walls at Once (West Berlin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0uNnmAudmk
1978 Performance II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3DfebecTcQ
1978 Feathered Prison Fan from Der Eintänzer
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/horn_feateredprisonfan1978.jpg

Vito Acconci
1971 “Seedbed” Sonabend Gallery, New York http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/acconci_seedbed1971.jpg

Chris Burden
*1971 “Shoot” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE5u3ThYyl4

Marina Abramović
*1973 “Rhythm 10” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-HVwEbdCo
1975 “Art Must Be Beautiful” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cCFDSzDnUk
1978 “AaaAaa” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAIfLnQ26JY

Ana Mendieta
*http://www.ubu.com/film/mendieta_selected.html

Mierle Laderman Ukeles
1977-80 “Touch Sanitation”
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/ukeles_Touch_Sanitation_Fresh_Kills_1977-80.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/ukeles_touch-sanitation.jpg

Adrian Piper
1970 Catalysis, street performances, New York
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/piper_catalysis1970.jpg
http://nobetty.net/4d/resources/images/piper_catalysisIII1970.jpg
short documentary “Adrian Piper: Deconstructing Race in the Indexical Present” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPtKrKvXyo
1988 Cornered
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUJ8MhXTwtI part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIkvjGq7VgM part 2