Tate video argues all contemporary art is performance

The Tate in London has produced a video titled 'An Introduction to Performance Art' arguing that a vast portion of contemporary art contains a performative component, even when not immediately apparent. The film begins with the work of Anglo-Pakistani artist Rasheed Araeen, whose minimal cubic structures can be moved and reassembled by viewers like giant Lego bricks. It then surveys performance art from its birth in the 1960s to the present day, featuring pioneers such as Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, and Yves Klein—figures united by a desire to build a new artistic culture that breaks down disciplinary boundaries and resists market logic. The survey concludes with George Maciunas's Flux-Olympiad project, which the Lithuanian Fluxus leader designed but never realized; following his instructions, the work was finally staged in London in 2008 in the monumental Turbine Hall.