Community Art Convergence: Performance/Interactive/Public Art workshop. July 25. Khyber.

Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience.

Joseph Beuys
I Like America and America Likes Me
Joseph Beuys shared a gallery space with a wild coyote for 3 days. At times he lay on the straw, at times he watched the coyote as the coyote watched him and cautiously circled the man, or shredded the blanket to pieces, and at times he engaged in symbolic gestures, such as striking a large triangle or tossing his leather gloves to the animal; the performance continuously shifted between elements that were required by the realities of the situation, and elements that had purely symbolic character.

Yoko Ono
Cut Piece
Cut Piece had one destructive verb as its instruction: “Cut.” Ono executed the performance in Tokyo by walking on stage and casually kneeling on the floor in a draped garment. Audience members were requested to come on stage and begin cutting until she was naked.

Tehching Hsieh
One Year Performance (Time Clock Piece)
For one year between April 11, 1980 through April 11, 1981, Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour. Each time he punched the clock, he took a single picture of himself, which together yield a 6 minute movie.

Janet Cardiff
walking pieces and installations
In Real Time takes place in the library of the Carnegie Museum of Art and begins with the participant donning a pair of headphones attached to a small video camera. Participants are instructed to watch the screen and follow along for approximately 18 minutes. This piece relies on the discrepancies between what is seen on the video monitor and what is actually occurring in the library.
http://www.cardiffmiller.com/

Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher.
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/hello/index.php

Post Secret
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
http://www.postsecret.com/

This American Life
There’s a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It’s mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There’s lots more to the show, but it’s sort of hard to describe.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/about.

Mammalian Diving Reflex
We create work that dismantles the barriers between individuals, fostering a dialogue between audience members, between the audience and the material and between the performers and the audience. Our goal is to create activist performance able to meld polemic with artistic rigour, creating work that is meticulous, uncompromising and thorough in its examination of political and social ontologies while still maintaining a total commitment to easy accessibility and entertainment.
http://www.mammalian.ca/template.php?content=about

Let’s Paint, Exercise and Eat Watermelon TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noOMVGExeT0&feature=related