After moving to New York City to become a dancer, at 24, she and a friend signed up for a four-month performance art course in Texas, where they worked as strippers to support themselves.
Bringing many divergent discourses into dialogue, this hybrid studio/seminar performance art course will investigate the paradoxical links between the religious and the secular as it plays out in Western societies today.
Next came a performance-art class.
Performance art - unless, of course, you were there - is usually encountered only in anecdotal or photographic form.
Taking the idea of a Harvard education professor, Howard Gardner, that students learn in a range of "multiple intelligences" -- some, say, spatially, others logically -- the Rennicks came up with a core group of courses, from performance arts to agribusiness, that would capitalize on each student's learning style.
The city also houses a number of performance arts venues in addition to the Chattahoochee RiverWalk, Columbus Fall Line Trace and numerous golf courses.
One of the world's most famous performance artists, Ms. Abramovic, 61, plans to establish a nonprofit foundation dedicated to the teaching and preservation of performance art, with artist workshops, public courses, a library and a grants program.
Over the course of his brief but influential career, Kaufman frequently blurred the line between comedy and performance art, provoking audiences as much as entertaining them.
In the spring, Stanford students will explore the history, evolution and practice of performance art in both traditional and nontraditional performance spaces in the course Performance StratLab: Visual and Live Performance in Art Space.
Over the course of her life, Oppenheim created jewelry, sculpture, paintings, furniture, performance art, and poetry.
Of course, the many baubles clinging to Holley's person are just one facet of his performance art, a multidisciplinary mission that aims, above all, to turn your garbage into his art.
