Action and live art Video resources.
Many of the performance art archives and performance venues offer options to see various performance artists and their work. Sometimes just a search of the internet for a particular artist can surface interviews and performances, but it is hard to find a larger block dedicated to a wide group of live art and performance artists.
Here we will try to get as many sources as possible for you to see things around the planet. If you have information on archives, resources, and documentation of live and performance art send it in to share with the greater community.
Video resources for and about Artists and Performance Art Groups
Information, resources, and more
- Ubu Web – UbuWeb is pleased to present thousands of avant-garde films & videos for your viewing pleasure. However, it is important to us that you realize that what you will see is in no way comparable to the experience of seeing these gems as they were intended to be seen: in a dark room, on a large screen, with a good sound system and, most importantly, with a roomful of warm, like-minded bodies. – However, we realize that the real thing isn’t very easy to get to. Most of us don’t live anywhere near theatres that show this type of fare and very few of us can afford the hefty rental fees, not to mention the cumbersome equipment, to show these films. Thankfully, there is the internet which allows you to get a whiff of these films regardless of your geographical location.
- EAI – Since 1971, Electronic Arts Intermix has fostered the distribution, preservation, and study of artists’ video and media.
- Class performance art video list
- Contemporary Cruising – We have no information on goals of site.
- Online Performance Art Festival – past shows
- Performance Art Video (PAV) – A platform to explore performance art on video founded on the principles of solidarity and inclusion. We trust in change. PAV operates as a cultural community: to host, foster and disseminate performance art videos that raise awareness and respond to contemporary emergencies; to generate sustainable revenues for the featured artists through users’ subscriptions, donations and video visualisation on demand.
- Archives with video
- The African American Performance Art Archive (aapaa.org)
- Aggora8
- Archivos en uso (Chile)
- Artpool Art Research Center (Budapest)
- Centro de Documentación Arkheia, MUAC, UNAM (Mexico)
- The Ashkal Alwan library (Lebanon)
- The Ray Langenbach Archive of Performance Art (South East Asia)
- Propositions for an Archive of Performance Art in India (India)
- Performances by Yuan Mor’O Ocampo and Other Artists (Philippines)
- Performance Art in Singapore (Singapore)
- Australian Performing Arts Collection – Melbourne, Australia
- AWARE – Archives of Women Artists Research and Exhibitions
- Black Kit INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART ARCHIVE (Germany)
- European Live Art Archives
- Franklin Furnace –(US)
- Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) (South Africa)
- Independent Performance Artists’ Moving Images Archive (IPAMIA) (based Japan)
- International Performance Art Archive
- Library Of Congress – US : Performing Arts Web Archives at the Library of Congress (US)
- Live art (The live art archives) (UK)
- Live Art Works
- Museum of Fine Arts Boston – Performance Art Archive (US)
- Marilyn Arsem Archive
- Performance Art Argentina (Argentina)
- PerformanceLogia (Venezuela)
- Perforum (Switzerland)
- Wizya Vidéo Art Action (France)
