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The Art of Performance 12th Edition presented as part of High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027), initiated by the Performance Art Museum, Los Angeles. It is a multi-institutional exploration of the magazine’s enduring impact on contemporary performance and community. This evening of performance works honors the legacy of High Performance magazine (1978–1997) and the writing of Jacki Apple. She was the contributing and media arts editor from 1983 to 1995, who helped shape the discourse around the emerging performance art scene in Los Angeles. Apple’s essays combined close observation with cultural and historical context, positioning interdisciplinary performance as a vital form of social and artistic practice. Activating her writing as a curatorial framework, this three-day residency brings together artists Apple wrote about and championed decades ago, including artists who continue to create ambitious and powerful performance work, alongside a new generation of artists extending and transforming the possibilities of performance art. Through these projects in performance, sound, movement and installation, these artists trace connections across histories, communities and generations, revealing the ongoing evolution of performance art and its enduring cultural impact.
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Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL), Mesa Parking Structure, Irvine, United States
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