Sophie Calle is an installation artist, photographer and writer from France. Her projects often explore the relationship between someone’s private life and public persona, and the concept of these two in general. Calle is known for going to great lengths to inspect people’s private lives for her work. One project
Tag: performance art
What would you do if you were going around the city to find a nude woman straddling the roof of a building? Would you consider it art or a crime? Earlier this month (November 2015), performance artist Poppy Jackson confused many by her four hour long performance, “Site,” that was
Until recently, performance art had not been widely accepted as a form of expression. However, one woman was able to change this public opinion in the mid-1970s. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Marina Abramović’s first well-known performance piece proved that calling herself the “grandmother of performance art” is anything but inaccurate.
By juxtaposing societal rules and art, Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” defied the standards of performance art and blended together two opposite ideals. Prior to her publicized relationship to the Beatle’s John Lennon, Ono was known as a Japanese artist whose avant-garde performance art became popular worldwide. In her later years,
Russia is home to a lot of controversial artists, one of which being an art group called “Voina”. This article is about the art group Voina planting a member in a grocery store that stole a raw chicken by sticking it up her vagina and walking out of the store.