Sentence examples for subversive performance from inspiring English sources

They're known for subversive performance art, humorous videos and conceptual sculptures all infused with Ph.D. quantities of art history references.

Mr. Riley continued to pursue his interest in history and subversive performance in 2009 with still another project — this one mostly legal — involving a mock naval battle by flooding a pool at the World's Fair grounds in Flushing Meadows.

Comedians, which has been revived at the Lyric, Hammersmith, is a brilliant play about a night-school for comics, supervised by an old vaudevillian, played originally by Jimmy Jewel, and disrupted by the subversive performance of Jonathan Pryce as a skinhead version of the Swiss clown Grock.

This Foucaultian insight into the nature of subjection — into the ways in which becoming a subject means at the same time being subjected to power relations — thus forms the basis for Butler's trenchant critique of the category of women, and for her call for a subversive performance of the gender norms that govern the production of gender identity.

It's easy to imagine her future as a subversive performance artist, or a headstrong petitioner for women's rights.

Nearing 70, Marina Abramović talked to us about building a career off of subversive performance and how she's still pushing boundaries, causing controversies, and influencing the youth.

During 2012, it is hosting an entertaining and subversive performance-art project called The Castle in Three Acts.

His work in the latter was the most richly subversive comic performance in film history, undermining the work of two other geniuses.

Miro had already spent many years working on painted versions of Ubu Roi, the absurd, violent king of Alfred Jarry's invention and, spying an opportunity to produce a subversive, grand guignol performance along the lines of Ubu, Miro replied that he'd rather create an entire show.

A member of Voina (War), an anti-government art collective that has carried out a number of highly publicized subversive public art performances, released cockroaches in the court building before the noon session.

In light of her appeal to citationality, Butler further clarifies that the subversive potential of gender performance is significantly constrained since, in order for gender performance to be subversive, it still must cite existing gender norms as norms (1993, 122 4, 226 7).