Over the last fifteen years, performance art has become an essential part of contemporary art. Yet while interest in the subject from artists, institutions and art schools has grown considerably, critical literature on the subject remains relatively scarce in French. In this book, Julie Pellegrin, a renowned curator and art critic, offers a singular reflection on contemporary performance art and its political effects. Nine artists, who are all valued friends and correspondents, engage in dialogue with the author about the way in which work intertwines with life. They invite us to think about what performance (does) to us, rather than what it is. This collection of interviews feeds into a personal essay on the affinities between artistic practice and a renewed interest in anarchist thought.

With Béatrice Balcou, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Yael Davids, Catalina Insignares & Myriam Lefkowitz, Kapwani Kiwanga, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Emily Mast, Gisèle Vienne.