This is the official archive of

THE ACT

A Journal of Performance Art,
Activities, Happenings, Events, Choices

Publication information

The ACT - Vol. 1, #1 - 1986

Ethics, Holding/Releasing, Spectacle/Hallway, Pastoral

Jacques Chwat, William Pope.L, Allan Kaprow, Bruce Barber, Chris Kraus, Sylvere Lotringer, Bradley Eros, Aline Mare, Jeffrey Greenberg, Ellen Zweig, Henry Sayre, Gavin Searle, Penelope Wehrli, Toyo, R.L. Seltman, Arelene Schloss, Charles Allcroft, Jenneth Webster, Richard Gessner

Sample Articles:
Allan Kaprow : Tail Wagging Dog
Jeffrey Greenberg : Levitation

The ACT - Vol. 1, #2 - 1987

Perseverance, Striving

Eugenio Barba, Jacques Chwat, Laurie Perricci, Penelope Wehrli, Charles Allcroft, Jeffrey Greenberg, Kristine Stiles, Kenneth Gaburo, Gary Goldberg, Morgan O’Hara, Laura Foreman, Frank Green

Sample Articles:
Toine Horvers : Drumming
Jeffrey Greenberg: My Performances with Him

The ACT - Vol. 1, #3 - 1988-89

Jacques Chwat Memoriam, The Body

Andre Gregory, Joel Honig, Jerzy Grotowski, Simone Forti, Jeffrey Greenberg, Toine Horvers, Allan Kaprow, Ken Jacobs, Angelika Festa, Ammon Denziger, Uri Katzenstein, Linda Montano, Colette, Frank Moore

Sample Articles:
Toine Horvers : BALANCE 5
Section page for The Body issue
Action words

The ACT - Vol. 2, #1 - 1990

Against the Spectacle, Private and Interpersonal Experiment, Social & Political Activity

Gran Fury, Allan Kaprow, Jeffrey Greenberg, Clemente Padin, Geoffrey Hendricks, Charles Allcroft, Eugenio Barba, Suzanne Lacy, Toine Horvers, Nina Sobell, William Peterson, Carolee Schneemann, Max Below, Kim Irwin, Mikowaj Smoczynski, Aviva Rahmani, Tyler Stallings, Ellen Zweig, Jerri Allyn, KS Fleming, William Pope.L, Christine Tamblyn, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Barbara T. Smith, Sutart Sherman, Antero Alli

Publication Information

Availability

A very small number of stored copies are availble for Libraries and Collections only at this point from Jeffrey Greenberg. Used copies are available on Amazon.

Publisher:

Jeffrey Greenberg, Performance Project Inc. from 1986 to 1991 in New York City.

Genre:

"advanced" or "experimental" art.

Focus:

on the personal, internal experience of doing actions rather than the spectacle-like experience usually provided by art-objects and performance art.

Archived:

in the Museum of Modern Art and in most major museums and libraries.

Financial Support:

the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts, and other prestigious public and private funders.