Performance Art in the United States

The United States has a long history of action / live art coming from dance, theater, and visual arts and covering a large range of focus.

Artists and Performance Art Groups

• Literature and Links (Much more information here)
• America’s Most Influential Protest Art Was Quietly Removed. Here’s What Should Have Happened Instead
• The Art Story – American performance artists
• Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
• Black Power Naps La Biblioteca Is Open
• Community Arts Network (US) – web resource for community-based arts, forums, elist
• Defibrillator Gallery – an international platform for Performance Art known for bold and courageous programming that aims to provoke thought and stimulate discourse regarding time-based artistic practices. Actively contributing to a global dialog surrounding conceptual, ephemeral, or enigmatic modes of expression, DFBRL8R aims to raise awareness, appreciation, and respect for the discipline of Performance Art.
• My Modern Met: Performance Art and Artists
• Museum of Performance and Design
• Acción Latina
• Education, Activism, Performance Art: Sharing Metaphors for Cultural Work – pdf download
• Hernandez, Bernadine: The Next Stage: The Legacy of Latinx Performance Art in L.A. Lives On
• Kelley Jr, BIll (Curr.): Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas
• Loeffler, Carl E.: Performance anthology : source book for a decade of California performance art – 1989
• Museum of Performance + Design
• Out of Actions: between performance and the object, 1949-1979 Museum of Contemporary Art – Los Angeles 1998 exhibit. (Video recording)
• Performing Identity: The Politics and Pedagogy of Witnessing the Self (Doctoral Thesis) – pdf download
• YBCA: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art