Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal.  Meer

Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989.  Meer

Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal.  Meer

Extremity might suggest violence, pornography, criminality, misanthropy, danger, recklessness, eccentricity or obscurantism. How has art exceeded its own example through performance art?  Meer