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#performance-art

After turning heads with his breakout presentation at NADA Miami last winter, Lee Moriarty is stepping back into the spotlight with Balance, his first solo exhibition. Opening September 27 at Night Gallery in Los Angeles and curated by Adam Abdalla, the show marks a striking debut that blurs the lines between performance art, wrestling culture, and personal identity. Through eight new works, Moriarty shifts focus away from the spectacle of the ring and toward the quieter, more vulnerable realities of the luchadores who inhabit it.

Since moving to New York City from Atlanta in 1990, she's accumulated some life experiences that most people only read about. Far from her previous life, where she was a teen model and taught young girls how to walk down runways in the '80s in a charm school, she graduated to a scene that wasn't even imaginable when she was on her high school track and tennis teams.

A Turkish angora cat peeks out from a wooden shelter at the Ankara Cat Protection, Survival and Promotion Centre at Ankara University. The veterinary faculty houses cats in safe conditions and helps them find new homes.

The live performance features a fusion of Sufi, folk, and pop music, showcasing a blend of South Asian cultural heritage through diverse artists from the region.

The history of epic musical attempts to meaningfully engage with the vast sweep of American history is, to say the least, problematic.

"While we don't have a formal therapy outlet, let us use our art as our way of speaking or processing this," Fez recalls saying at the time.

After a visitor consumed a banana worth millions of dollars at a French museum, artist Maurizio Cattelan expressed disappointment that they did not eat the skin and tape.

The enormous size of the show reflects the way onboard entertainment has scaled in tandem with the growth of cruise ships themselves.

In 1973, Marina Abramovic debuted her first performance work, 'Rhythm 10,' where she thrust 10 sharp knives between her fingers, occasionally drawing blood.

I was 22, finally free of my parents, madly in love, and ready to eat the world.

Hankins describes her work as a form of manipulation that is not negative or malicious, but aimed at creating a positive experience for the audience.

"I mean, I feel like we need laughter so badly. This is a style that blends a lot of different comedic techniques that you might recognize in whatever comedy, whether it's standup or sketch or improv."

Tara-Jo Tashna's latest project, A. Garden, aims to explore joy, ecology, and resistance through performative experiences, fostering connections between human beings and nature.

America is on fire. We might as well strip while we still can! This is burlesque as resistance, and you better be there! This year we aren't having a Fourth of July ho-down, we're staging a takedown! A nearly naked takedown!

In 2024, GDIF will feature THAW, an aerial act on a melting ice block, along with various performances celebrating activism and change.

Otero's decision to film her life and her challenges with mental illness ultimately led her to create a performance that poetically explores the struggle with love and madness.