Sunday Feature: Living and Present - Laurie Anderson on Performance ArtSeries 1, episode 0Pioneering artist Laurie Anderson traces the roots of performance art - arguably the most daring and popular of contemporary art forms, which blurs the boundaries of art, theatre and dance. Anderson focuses on this innovative and elusive art form, drawing out the qualities of ritual and gathering, pain and endurance. She turns to the earliest recordings of futurist artist Flippo Marinetti's poem Zang Tumb Tumb, the actions of German artist Joseph Beuys, the influence of John Cage in contrast to the risk of Yoko Ono, the sexual politics of Vito Acconci, the confrontation of the Viennese Actionists or British artist Stuart Brisley's offal bath and the explosive shock of Chris Burden's Shoot |
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