(Non) Performance. A daily Practice

Writer: Julie Pellegrin

Julie Pellegrin, renowned curator and art critic, reflects on the political effects of contemporary performance art. Nine artists, all valued friends and collaborators, engage with the author in dialogues about how work intertwines with life. These conversations are accompanied by a personal essay on the affinities between artistic practice and a renewed interest in anarchist thought. This story, which began in Rome’s legendary Attico gallery in the 1960s, unfolds in various parts of the world in the context of current crises. It affirms art’s capacity to formulate new political imaginaries when it embraces possibilities for living differently – ungovernable ways of being and relating.