Video resources for performance and live art.

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. A search of the internet for an artist can locate interviews and performances. It can be 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. We are always looking form more and better sources. Have information on archives, resources, and documentation of performance art? Send it in to share with the greater community.

Videos about Performance Art:

• African American Performance Art Archive – video
• David Getsy on “Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art”
• Class perf art video list
• Contemporary Cruising – We have no information on goals of site.
• EAI – Since 1971, EAI has fostered the distribution, preservation, and study of artists’ video and media.
• Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
• Anna Halprin: Performance Art (Spark)
• How can simple gestures become art? MOMA Video
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Archives 
• Media and performance art 
• The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• Online Performance Art Festival – past shows
• PBS –
  • The Case for Performance Art
• Performance Art: An Introduction
• Performance Art (Vimeo search for Performance Art)
• Performance art video A platform to explore performance art on video founded on the principles of solidarity and inclusion…includes a number of artists and videos
• TateShots
  • An Introduction to Performance Art | TateShots
  • Does Performance Art Need to be Experienced Live? | How Art Became Active | Ep. 4 of 5
• The Case for Performance Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
• 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 kind 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.

Video of or by Performance Artists

• The Shocking Life & Performance Art of Marina Abramović (Part 1)
• Graime Messer
• Senga Nengudi
• Lisette Ros – Mexico City, performance artist

Videos about preserving and archiving Performance Art

• Collecting and Conserving Performance Art – Videos