To mass media fanfare, performance artist Marni Kotak gave birth in a Brooklyn gallery last year and now, as planned, she’s “re-contextualizing the everyday act of raising a child” and wants your donations. Here’s her first podcast, Baby New Year. Sigh. Read more »
New York performance artist Nate Hill’s is done with his White Ambassador project. He spoke to ANIMAL about a recent performance that turned tense, more so than usual. Read more »
This graphic performance action follows the international occurrence of protestors sewing their mouths closed, like this one in Greece in solidarity with mistreated Iranian asylum seekers. Watch as two artists get Stitched Together. NSFW. Read more »
Artist Miru Kim is spending Art Basel living naked in a glass-encased pit with two hogs for performance I Like Pigs And Pigs Like Me. For 104 intimate hours, she is sharing their hay and trough, mingling with their existence. During her 74th hour, ANIMAL ally Diana Frame was at the scene. Here’s what she saw… Read more »
Performance art diva Marina Abramović had caused hoopla with her vaguely kinky, “economically exploitative” gala at MoCA for allegedly underpaying artists to hug skeletons naked and poke their heads through tables. Now, some of the “re-performers” from MoMA talk about their wage troubles with museum institutions. Read more »
NYC’s Nate Hill takes Harlem with his new piece The White Ambassador. What’s with the white face, you ask? Earlier this year, Hill has set up a WhiteSmellBot on Twitter that is now retweeting about 80 “white people smell like” stereotypes a day. As a biracial performance artist, he’s headed out to confront these bytes of cyber racism. See the video for some tense discourse. Read more »
Last week, word got out that Marina Abramović was going to plop skeleton-hugging nudes on the MOCA gala tables and pay $150 for aspiring performance artists to poke their heads through them — spinning, detached, dead-faced between dishes while art stars and celebs munched their $2,500-$100,000 dinners. Yvonne Rainer condemned it as “grotesque,” “verging on economic exploitation.” We thought it sounded kinky. Was it? Here’s a peep at Saturday night’s party. Just because there was no [overtly apparent] sexual fondling going on, doesn’t mean it wasn’t obscene. Read more »
So, Marina Abramović just got burned by someone she really respects, all because she’s planning to “humiliate” her performers by laying them nude on and under tables where the elite MOCA Gala attendees can gawk at and fondle them tomorrow. Apparently, it reminds people of Passolini’s sexually sadistic torture epic, Salò. Read more »
Since performance artist Marni Kotak gave birth at Brooklyn’s Microscope Gallery, she’s been back showing off Baby X a.k.a. Ajax. He’s the “highest form of art” and you can see him plopping into a birthing pool via mommy’s new video installation. Twenty “sincerely interested” and “really supportive” visitors are coming over a day to look at it, look at it! Read more »
NYC artist Nate Hill of Death Bear, Punch Me Panda and China Garbage Taxidermy Tour fame has given up performance art! For a bit. To do this. Presenting: Racist Incorporated — an internet art project that’s going to make you very uncomfortable. Read more »
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