INSPIRATIONAL ARTISTS

I shall use this page to list the artists that I think are practsing Live Art, that inspire me. This is also a quick reference guide for any of you who would like to reaserch into them more.

Marina Abramovic
Ritual, body based 70's

Paul Mc Carthy
Presenting the growteque in a comic way, popular entertainment with the grotesque

GILLIAN WEARING
public/private themes, dark subject matters based on human behavor and situations

Jeff Wall
narrative through photography

Bill Viola
subject matter of death, transiance, birth and use of natural materials

Lorna Simpson
photography, film, invisble processes

Santiago Sierra
House of mud, 60's/70's

Martha Rosier
Links between everyday activities and wider political issues realting to gender. (SEMIOTICS OF THE KITCHEN 1975 video installation)

Cindy Sherman
identity masks public/private

Bobby Baker

Solo shows, neautral performances, stories, honesty, props

Gob Squad
www.gobsquad.com/

Fun, interative collaborators from Berlin and England. Physical, quiet, text, microphones

Dot Howard
www.dothoward.com

Quick witted, quirky, honest, live, dark humour

Holly Bodmer
http://hollybodmer.blogspot.co.uk/

Physical, tactile, thought provoking, absurd, props, playful, present

Pina Bausch

Dark humour, sensory, colourful, caotic, collage, gestural, real,