Performance art is “art in which the artist is present when the art is being made,” says Johanna Householder in the latest video. But other practitioners, like Istvan Kantor and Diane Borsato, have their own takes on the genre.
Istvan Kantor and collaborators in performance
From its “anti-art” beginnings, performance art has allowed artists to experiment with personal and audience boundaries, question authority and make powerful statements, as the work of three very different performance artists—Istvan Kantor, Johanna Householder and Diane Borsato—demonstrates.
The Summer 2017 Kinship issue, edited by Lindsay Nixon, is nominated for Best Editorial Package. Geoffrey Farmer’s artist project in our Spring 2017 issue also nominated.