"PERFORMANCE ART: FUTURISM TO THE PRESENT"

Oskar Schlemmer, diagram for "Gesture Dance," 1926.
"Schlemmer's complex notation system was used to plan and record the actual movements of each performance."

Frederick Kiesler, setting for Karel Čapek's R.U.R. in Berlin (1922)

Schlemmer, "Metal Dance" (1929)

Schlemmer, "Game with Building Blocks" (Bauhaus stage, 1927)

Jim Dine, "The Smiling Workman" (1960)
"Dine is shown drinking from a can of paint before he crashed through the canvas on which he had written 'I love what I'm...'"

Meredith Monk, "Quarry." first performed in 1976.

Robert Morris, "Site." first performed in 1965.

"Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project."

--Joseph Beuys

Beuys, "Coyote" (1974)

(not pictured): "[Dennis Oppenheim's] Lead Sink for Sebastian (1970) was designed for a man who had one artificial leg, the intention being similarly to act out certain sculptural sensations, such as smelting and reduction. The artificial leg was replaced by a lead pipe which was then melted by a blowtorch, causing the man's body to tilt unevenly as the 'sculpture' was liquidized."

Joan Jonas, "Funnel" (1974)

"Venetian Blind costume," designed by General Idea (1977)

Sankai Juku (Butoh group) performing Kinkan Shonen, 1984

"Miranda Payne hangs from a wall in her work 'Saint Gargoyle.'" 1986

Tomas Ruller, 8.8.88 (1988)
"Ruller came of age in pre-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia, and his performances of referred to the political repression of those times. This work memorialized the Russian invasion of 1968."
(^FUCK.)