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Performance art in China has grown since the 1970s as a response to the very traditional nature of Chinese state-run art schools. It has become more popular in spite of the fact that it is currently outlawed. In 1999, the importance of contemporary Chinese art was recognized by the inclusion of 19 contemporary Chinese artists in the Venice Biennale. In recent years, many of these artists have made performances specifically for photography or film.

Examples

Some of the more extreme examples of Chinese performance art have become notorious in the West. In 2000, Zhu Yu, a painter and performance artist from Cheng Du, created a scandal by taking a number of photographs of himself, supposedly eating a fetus as a protest against state abortions as a means of population control. Peng Yu and Sun Yuan have also worked with human body parts as well as with live animals and are equally notorious. Some younger performance artists who have exhibited widely in the west in 2005-6 are Shu Yang, the organiser of the Dadao Live Art Festival in Beijing, Yang Zhichao, famous for having his identity card number branded on his back and Wang Chuyu who went on hunger strike as part of an exhibition called Fuck Off that took place in Shanghai in 2000 in opposition to the Shanghai Biennale. They acknowledge a debt to older performance artist and curator Ai Weiwei. Other well-known artists are Ma Liuming, Zhu Ming, and He Yunchang.

The 1996 film Frozen (Chinese title: Jidu Hanleng; 极度寒冷) by Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai, made under the pseudonym Wu Ming, has as its protagonists a group of Chinese performance artists, who are shown engaging in several street performances in the film.

Chinese performance artists

Chinese performance artist collectives

Concept 21

List of performing art

References

Park, J P (2016-03-03). "The Artist Was Present: Documentation, Reconstruction, and Interpretation of Performance Art in China". Third Text. 30 (1–2): 100–116. doi:10.1080/09528822.2016.1264785. ISSN 0952-8822.
^ Zhijian, Qian (June 1999). "Performing Bodies: Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, and Performance Art in China". Art Journal. 58 (2): 60–81. doi:10.1080/00043249.1999.10791940. ISSN 0004-3249.

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Work	7000 Oaks (1982) Amen or The Pederasty (2015) Bed-in (1969) Breathing in/breathing out (1977) Body Pressure (1974) Buried (2015) Ceci N'est Pas Un Viol (2015) Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West (1992–93) Cut Piece (1964) Eating (2012) Empathy and Prostitution (2013) Food for the Spirit (1971) How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965) I'm too sad to tell you (1970–71) Luminosity (1997) Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014–2015) One & Other (2009) Rest Energy (1980) Rhythm 10 (1973) Rhythm 5 (1974) Rhythm 2 (1974) Rhythm 0 (1974) Seedbed (1972) Seven Easy Pieces (2005) Shot Marilyns (1964) The Artist Is Present (2010) The Death of The Artist (2018) The Fathers (2016) The Shadow (2014) The Shame (2018) Three Weeks in May (1977) Untitled (Rape Scene) (1973) Untitled , 2008 (2008)
Artists	Marina Abramović Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Laurie Anderson Ron Athey Abel Azcona Franko B Matthew Barney Rebecca Belmore Joseph Beuys David Blaine Mark Bloch Stuart Brisley Günter Brus Nancy Buchanan Chris Burden James Lee Byars Sophie Calle Papo Colo Valie Export Bob Flanagan Terry Fox Coco Fusco Guillermo Gómez-Peña Cai Guo-Qiang Ann Hamilton David Hammons Jo Hanson Newton Harrison Sharon Hayes Lynn Hershman Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Zhang Huan Natalie Jeremijenko Joan Jonas Allan Kaprow Andy Kaufman Ragnar Kjartansson Yves Klein Terence Koh Paul Kos Yayoi Kusama Suzanne Lacy Phoebe Legere James Luna Miki Malör Eric Millikin Marta Minujín Kent Monkman Linda Montano Frank Moore Charlotte Moorman Bruce Nauman Shirin Neshat Pat Oleszko Pauline Oliveros Mihai Olos Yoko Ono Eiko Otaki Nam June Paik Gina Pane Mark Pauline Petr Pavlensky Dorothy Podber Jim Pomeroy Duke Riley Rachel Rosenthal Martha Rosler Carolee Schneemann Tino Sehgal Aliza Shvarts Barbara T. Smith Michael Smith Stelarc Melati Suryodarmo Mierle Laderman Ukeles Ulay Wolf Vostell Robert Whitman Hannah Wilke
Groups	Ant Farm Concept 21 COUM Transmissions Fallen Fruit General Idea LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner Los Angeles Urban Rangers Mavo The Yes Men
Media	Mondo New York (1988 film) Kusama: Infinity (2018 film)
Other	Body art Endurance art Feminist art Fluxus Happening Hunger artist monochrom Participatory art Performance art in China Survival Research Laboratories Viennese Actionism Process art

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