Featuring the likes of Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler and Birgit Jürgenssen, this exhibition shows, in film, photography, collage, performance and video, just how confrontationally political the avant garde was in the 1970s and, by extension, how tame it is now.
This worthy goal is reflected in sculpture, collage, performance pieces and especially videos, which reflect alternatives to everything from work by Robert Smithson, Ugo Rondinone and Pablo Picasso to the history of art.
Using collage, performance and painting she reimagines poster and magazine imagery depicting long-legged pin-up girls, or takes vivid promotions for the communist good life and illuminates them with brilliant neon signage.
His work, which encompasses collage, performance, and video, is partly influenced by hip-hop music.
"I think that's still a juxtaposition that's really interesting, that I don't think has been overworked," she said, adding that she liked that Mr. Newsome covers it in a multitude of styles -- collage, video, performance.
The key dada belief – that the elevated aesthetic realm is a lie and only readymade objects, photographs, collage and performance get close to the raw truth of real life – is common currency.
Perry's shtick is that he's an outsider who has stormed the academy with art that wouldn't normally be accepted, using mediums such as ceramics and tapestries along with more familiar art world offerings such as drawing, etching, sculptures, collage and performance.
She has worked in a wide variety of media, including paintings, collage, sculpture, performance art, fashion, and installations.
She was at the peak of her artistic career, renowned as painter, pop artist, cultural activist, showing expertise in various mediums including sculpture, painting, collage, film, performance, happenings, fashion design, and publishing.
Rashaad Newsome, 30, a New York-based visual artist whose work of collage and performance explores representations of the black body in the vogue ballroom scene, hip-hop, and architecture.
The rough, visible nonchalance with which they are assembled for the camera has expanded the boundaries of setup photography, incorporating aspects of painting, sculpture, film, installation, performance, collage and assemblage.
