PART 1The following websites are places to start doing research on individual contemporary performance artists: http://www.performanceart.ca/http://lilithperformancestudio.com/http://7a-11d.ca/http://livebiennale.ca/2017/http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/performance-artSome possible performance artists to research: Rebecca Belmore, Francisco-Fermando Granados, Kent Monkman, Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Louise Liliefeldt, Rirkrit Tiravanija, He Yunchang, Tania Bruguera, Carolee Schneemann, James Luna, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh, Rebecca Belmore, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Andre Stitt, Roy Vaara, Guerillmo Gomez-Pena, Coco Fusco, Alastair McLennan, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Camille Turner, Lori Blondeau, Chuiya Chia, Adrian Stimson, Sinead O’Donnell, Raquelle Loyola, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Julie Andree T, Esther Ferrer, Zhang Huan, Song Dong, Rachel Echenberg, Dariusz Fodzchuk, Shannon Cochrane, Johanna Householder, Skeena Reece, Eleanor Antin, Stelarc, Kent Monkman, Allison Knowles, Sylvie Cotton, Sylvette Babin, Helge Meyer, Stein Henningsen, Boris Nieslony, Lee Wen, Francis O’Shaughnessy, Rebecca Horn, Orlan, Franco B, Yang Zhichao, Black Market International, Martha Wilson, Helge Meyer, Andrea Zittel.Some art movements to research: Futurism, Fluxus, Dada, Happenings, Live Art, Body Art, Relational Practice.1. Choose 2 artists from your online research —one whose work you like and one that you do not.Research a performance by each artist and describe it in as much detail as possible (350-500 words).a) First, list the artwork details: name of the artist, title of the work, length, when it was performed and where it was performed (festival or gallery name, country, city, year, etc).b) Then describe the following in your own words:The action that unfolded in the performanceThe strategy the artist used (did it involve durational, endurance, was it a relational work, etc.)The image or visual effect that the performance createdExplain what you felt was successful and unsuccessful about the performance.2. Find a second performance by the artist you liked and describe it as above in 350-500 words. After your complete the description, explain whether or not you still like this artist’s work? Why? Elaborate.
