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Article: Artists in action; Leaving behind its underground past, performance art is now coming out in the open.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
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- April 4, 2002
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Byline: COLIN GLEADELL
LAST month it was wagging its tail in municipal galleries in Birmingham and Bristol. This month it takes its bow in London with a series of events at the South London Gallery in Peckham and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. And next March it will be officially sanctioned at Tate Modern.
Performance art, associated in the history books with underground art movements and "alternative" venues of the Sixties and Seventies, is back. But instead of being a sideshow, it is taking centre stage.
Described by art historian Rose Lee Goldberg as "live art by artists", performance art is a kind of hybrid of theatre, fine art, dance and ...