ACTION

"In the performance-based artworks in this room, artists use the living body as material In some works, artists record themselves executing excruciatingly mundane activities transforming everyday actions into works of art that mark the passage of time. Other artworks investigate the social and political contexts of the body, using gesture to question categories such as race, gender, and class Self-aware and explicitly performed for the camera many of the works on view take aim at how we manage our image for public consumption."