Marina Abramovic Illustrated Catalog Gestures Bodyart Storiesand the Others 2015: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

From the post-war period to the contemporary time, from the West to Taiwan, performance artists have been using their bodies instead of painting brushes to challenge the boundaries of institutions and inspire the souls of audience.

Looking back at the development of avant-garde art in Taiwan, we find that the art of body performance is closely connected with southern Taiwan, which provides fertile soil for many performance artists and also for the body art that has long been marginalized. In this summer of 2015, we introduce a classic international exhibition of performance art and then compare its development with what we have in Taiwan to draw references for each other. With the performance records of Marina Abramovic, mother of the performance art, as its core, this exhibition not only features the classic works of performance art in the West from the 1960s to now but also presents the current development of body art in Taiwan under the influence of avant-garde art from abroad. Combining historical, international and local perspectives, this exhibition is the most comprehensive and largest exhibition of performance art so far in Taiwan.