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News / August 18, 2011

Working in Performance Art

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 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.