Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, George Brecht, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Fluxus, Simone Forti, Vera Frenkel, Ken Friedman, GAAG, General Idea, Rodney Graham, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Christian Marclay, Kelly Mark, Meredith Monk, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Sandy Plotnikoff, Mathew Sawyer, Carolee Schneemann, Mike Smith, Michael Snow, Annie Sprinkle, Vincent Trasov, Jeff Wall and many others. (Dave Dyment, Curator) Presented in partnership with 7a*11d.

Beans, Bananas, and Yams: Performance Art Relics, Residue, and Ephemera is an exhibition of international Performance Art material that includes works spanning more than forty years. The posters, programmes, scores, announcement cards, props, and other relics illustrate the genre’s ephemeral and transitory nature and forms an alternative history and narrative of the movement. The exhibition will also include performative works whose primary means of dissemination was the documentation itself.

Featured in YYZINE: VOLUME 4, ISSUE 5

Photo credit: Peter MacCallum