INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PREVIEW.(various performance art exhibitions)(Brief Article)

HAVE ALL THE GREAT OLD BODY artists given up on raw, in-person performance? Not really, but even those who have bring a special sense of immediacy to their work in other media. The Arnolfini in Bristol is focusing on a couple of classic American performance artists who have turned their attention to different modes of artmaking.

Vito Acconcl's first major British show (Jan. 14- Mar. 4) focuses on his recent work-- proposals for public projects on an architectural scale. Their installation will itself be an Acconci project. Next comes the first UK show, period, of Eleanor Antin (Mar. ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.