Eliza Carthy The fiddle player from Scarborough in North Yorkshire was born with performance in her DNA.
Jessica Sanchez Bohemian RhapsodyYetYet another song released two decades before Jessica was born, this performance lacked all of Freddie Mercury's melancholy resonance and musical passion.
Others, like the remarkable French-born performance artist Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), have gradually become cult figures.
FOR Marina Abramovic, a 63-year-old Yugoslavian-born performance artist, the star is a potent symbol, and it makes frequent appearances in her work.
IVANA MÜLLER Presented by the French Institute Alliance Française as part of its "Crossing the Line" festival, "While We Were Holding It Together" is a performance piece by the Croatian-born performance artist/choreographer/theatre director Ivana Müller.
Lower East Side Through June 16 The work of the young, Austrian-born performance artist Maria Petschnig can seem like a gentler version of Viennese Actionism's extreme body art or of the gender-bending epics of Matthew Barney.
This performance in 2010, part of a retrospective called "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present", was seen by 750,000 people.Now this Belgrade-born performance artist is putting herself on show again.
FIAC, for its part, is exhibiting the works of 3,184 artists this year, including notable names like the Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, the Yugoslav-born performance artist Marina Abramovic and the Chinese provocateur Ai Weiwei.
The photographs chronicle a period during which the Taiwanese-born performance artist subjected himself to an extraordinary ordeal of sleep deprivation in a relentless quest to investigate the nature of time and methodically observe time's passing.
The gallery's installations have included a 1997 bit of art theater called "I Bite America and America Bites Me," in which the Ukrainian-born performance artist Oleg Kulik lived in the gallery as a dog for a few days.
Soon, they begin to reminisce about the club they frequented in their glory days, Taboo, which was run by their late friend and nemesis the Australian-born performance artist Leigh Bowery, played by Boy George.
