Performance Art in the 1990s and the Generation Gap
Journal: Cultural inquiry
Year: 2022

In the 1990s, the question of the legacy of historical performance was posed with a particular sense of urgency. In the context of most pioneers of the art form having retired from live performance, reenactments not only reproduced past works but positioned artists within the genealogy of performance. The sense of the passage of a generation and the transmission of the memory of past performances were made explicit by Marina Abramović in <italic>The Biography</italic> (1992), a theatre piece in