Performance Art Dan Collins MFA, PhD

Kazuo Shiraga Making a Work with His Own Body 1955 mud

Yves Klein Anthropometry Performance Galerie Internationale d’Art Contemporain Paris, France March 9, 1960

Jean Tinguely Homage to New York March 17, 1960 just prior to its self-destruction

Allan Kaprow Household 1964 performance happening, Cornell University, NY

Bruce Nauman Self-Portrait as a Fountain C-print photograph 19 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.

Hermann Nitsch 6 Tage Spiel: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater 1998 performances

Carolee Schneeman Meat Joy 1964 performance raw fish, chicken, sausages, wet paint, plastic, rope, paper scrap Judson Church, New York City

Valie Export Tapp und Tast Kino (Touch Cinema) 1968 expanded cinema, street action, mobile film, body action, social action

Gilbert + George Singing Sculpture 1970 performance

Marina Abramovic Rhythm O 1974 performance at Studio Mona Gallery, Naples, Italy 6 hours

Marina Abramovic Rhythm performance

Chris Burden Shoot November 19, 1971

Chris Burden Through the Night Softly September 12, 1973 Main Street, Los Angeles

Chris Burden Doorway to Heaven November 15, 1973

Chris Burden Icarus April 13, 1973

Chris Burden Transfixed April 23, 1974

Vito Acconci Step Piece black and white photographs type on 4 sheets of bond paper, mounted on paperboard with felt-tip annotations 30 x 40 in.

Vito Acconci Following Piece 1969 black and white photographs with text and chalk, text on index cards, mounted on cardboard 30 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.

Vito Acconci Conversions II: Insistence, Adaptation, Groundwork, Display 1971 silver gelatin prints and chalk on board 30 1/2 x 40 in.

Gordon Matta-Clark Splitting Exterior 1974 six black and white photographs

Gordon Matta-Clark Splitting 1974 black and white photo collage 40 x 30 in.

Gordon Matta-Clark Splitting: Four Corners 1974 four building fragments

Mierle Ukeles Touch Sanitation performance

Vanessa Beecroft VB performance at the Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

Vanessa Beecroft VB performance at the Gagosian Gallery, London, UK