Performance Art

INTERDIMENSIONAL

“I’ve Cried to Your Songs”: Colin Self and Eartheater Commune With the Spirit World

April 10, 2025

After dropping their new album in March, the experimental musician called up their dear friend Eartheater to talk fear, frequencies, and creative fermentation.

TITTIES

“I Want to Be Disgusting”: Alex Tatarsky and Crackhead Barney on Karens, Clowns, and CEOs

January 9, 2025

The self-described clown got together with fellow performance artist Crackhead Barney to talk getting meta, getting milked, and humiliating yourself for all to see.

ROUND UP

“Wet Juicy Body”: Performance Artist Kuby Lin Recreates 2024’s Most Viral Moments

December 26, 2024

“It’s so weird that everyone’s so horny for a hippo.”

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SMOKE BREAK

“It’s Like, Baby Doll”: Backstage With the Performance Artist Narcissister

September 20, 2024

In this week’s installment of Smoke Break, we caught up with the enigmatic artist following her first performance commission in 12 years at Pioneer Works.

SMOKE BREAK

“Very Demure, Very Mindful”: A Ten-Minute Cig With Performer Nile Harris

August 13, 2024

After wrapping his weekend show “minor b” at The Shed, artist and performer Nile Harris told us how he maintains his artistic integrity while dancing with the devil.

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PERFORMANCE

“I Want To Terrorize Americans”: Crackhead Barney Strikes Back

June 19, 2024

Following a dramatic guest appearance on Piers Morgan, the artist called up Brontez Purnell to talk Trump rallies, Black titties, and babysitting men.

DINNER

Will Benedict’s Pandemonium Is Living in a Bubble of Camp

November 9, 2023

“Riots are probably pretty good publicity, in France anyways.”

Art

Nile Harris and Crackhead Barney on Art and Exploitation

June 28, 2023

“We can out Interview on their own platform.”

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CRINGE

Neoliberal Hell Pod Takes Us to Trump’s Arraignment

April 5, 2023

“My name is Donald J. Trump, I am the most not guilty in the history of guilties.”

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ART!

Kalup Linzy Isn’t Ready to Say Goodbye

July 28, 2022

With the debut of his sky high solo exhibition, the artist is stepping back into the spotlight.

Musician No Bra Shares Some Good Reads on Gay Smut and Anti-Capitalism

December 2, 2019

The German musician gives us something of a holiday gift guide for the anti-consumerist.

Vaquera Takes Us Down the Yellow Brick Road with a Karaoke Send-Up of the Wizard of Oz

May 1, 2019

This week, the New York City fashion label debuted a karaoke-based performance piece at MoMA PS1 loosely inspired by the “Wizard of Oz.”

An International Art Gathering Transformed Snowy Gstaad Into a Radical Performance Space

February 7, 2019

Elevation 1049 unleashed the landscape-altering work of radical artists and performers, from Doug Aitken to Marianne Vitale, throughout the snowy enclave.

Radical filmmaker Charles Atlas on Leigh Bowery, porn, and performance

February 28, 2018

The master and inventor of the media dance genre is nowhere near done exploring the dizzy interconnections of our media-saturated social landscape.