Editing Performance art (section)

==Since the 2000s==
=== New-media performance ===
[[File:Einat Amir, Ideal Viewer, 2009.jpg|thumb|New media performance art, 2009]]

In the late 1990s and into the 2000s, a number of artists incorporated technologies such as the World Wide Web, digital video, webcams, and streaming media, into performance artworks.<ref>Steve Dixon, ''Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation'' (MIT Press, 2015), pp. 157ff. and pp. 457ff.</ref> Artists such as [[Coco Fusco]], [[Shu Lea Cheang]], and [[Prema Murthy]] produced performance art that drew attention to the role of gender, race, colonialism, and the body in relation to the Internet.<ref>Kelly Dennis, "Gendered Ghosts in the Globalized Machine: Coco Fusco and Prema Murthy,” ''Paradoxa: International Feminist Art Journal'', Vol. 23 (2009), pp. 79–86. See separate chapters on Shu Lea Cheang and Prema Murthy in Mark Tribe and Reena Jana, ''New Media Art'' (Taschen, 2007).</ref> Other artists, such as [[Critical Art Ensemble]], [[Electronic Disturbance Theater]], and [[Yes Men]], used digital technologies associated with [[hacktivism]] and [[Interventionist art|interventionism]] to raise political issues concerning new forms of capitalism and consumerism.<ref>Nato Thompson (ed.), ''The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life'' (MIT Press, 2006), pp. 106ff, 117ff. See also the catalog for the 1998 Ars Electronica festival ''InfoWar'' (Springer, 1998).</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism|chapter=Video as Vindication for Performance|last=McEvilley|first=Thomas|publisher=McPherson & Company |year=2012|isbn=978-0929701929}}</ref>

In the second half of the decade, computer-aided forms of performance art began to take place.<ref>Anderson, Nate (2009), [https://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/09/horrifically-bad-software-demos-become-performance-art.ars "Horrifically bad software demo becomes performance art"]</ref> Many of these works led to the development of [[algorithmic art]], [[generative art]], and [[robotic art]], in which the computer itself, or a computer-controlled robot, becomes the performer.<ref>{{cite journal |author=LaViers, Amy|date=May 23, 2019|title=Ideal Mechanization: Exploring the Machine Metaphor through Theory and Performance|journal=Arts|volume=8|issue=2|page=67|doi=10.3390/arts8020067|doi-access=free|arxiv=1807.02016}}</ref>

[[Coco Fusco]] is an interdisciplinary Cuban-American artist, writer and curator who lives and works in the United States. Her artistic career began in 1988. In her work, she explores topics such as identity, race, power and gender through performance. She also makes videos, interactive installations and critical writing.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coco Fusco {{!}} IDIS |url=https://proyectoidis.org/cocofusco/ |access-date=May 14, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":25" />

=== Radical performance ===
[[File:Пётр Павленский.jpg|thumb|[[Petr Pavlensky]] cutting his own ear in a political action in the [[Red Square]] of Moscow]]
[[File:Pussy Riot protest.jpg|thumb|Protest for the liberation of [[Pussy Riot]]]]
[[File:TVP & Pussy Riot in Santa Fe, NM.jpg|thumb|left|Pussy Riot during a performance with [[Tania Bruguera]]]]

During the 2000s and 2010s, artists such as [[Pussy Riot]], [[Tania Bruguera]], and [[Petr Pavlensky]] have been judged for diverse artistic actions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blanco Alcalde |first1=Daniel |title=Artistas disidentes en el punto de mira |url=http://revistamito.com/artistas-disidentes-en-el-punto-de-mira/ |access-date=May 15, 2020 |work=Revista Mito |date=February 28, 2015}}</ref>

On February 21, 2012, as a part of their protest against the re-election of [[Vladímir Putin]], various women of the artistic collective Pussy Riot entered the [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour]] of Moscow of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. They made the sign of the cross, bowed before the shrine, and started to interpret a performance compound by a song and a dance under the motto "Virgin Mary, put Putin Away". On March 3, they were detained.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Feigin |first1=Mark |title=Интервью &#124; Гости &#124; Русская служба новостей |url=http://rusnovosti.ru/guests/interviews/163402/198518/ |publisher=Rusnovosti.ru |access-date=June 9, 2020 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195339/http://rusnovosti.ru/guests/interviews/163402/198518/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> On March 3, 2012, [[Maria Alyokhina]] and [[Nadezhda Tolokonnikova]],<ref>{{cite web|title=2 Pussy Riots Band Members assaulted in Moscow|url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2014/03/2-pussy-riots-band-members-assaulted-in-moscow/|work=IANS|publisher=News.biharprabha.com|access-date=June 30, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Emma S |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR7epvaLP00&list=PL5JKkhwUrWjMKta1poOg79LAjHN2M51cP  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/dR7epvaLP00| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Masha Alyokhina: "Riot Days" &#124; Talks at Google |publisher=YouTube |date=November 3, 2017|access-date=June 30, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Pussy Riot members, were arrested by the Russian authorities and accused of vandalism. At first, they both denied being members of the group and started a hunger strike for being incarcerated and taken apart from their children until the trials began in April.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russian punk band Pussy Riot go on hunger strike in Moscow |url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/russia/russia-election/45722/russian-punk-band-pussy-riot-go-hunger-strike-moscow |work=[[The Week]] |date=March 6, 2012|access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref> On March 16 another woman, Yekaterina Samutsévitch, who had been previously interrogated as a witness, was arrested and accused as well.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} On July 5, formal charges against the group and a 2800-page accusation were filed.<ref>{{cite web |title=Участниц Pussy Riot официально обвинили в хулиганстве по мотивам религиозной ненависти |url=http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2012/06/04/988527.html |access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref> That same day they were notified that they had until July 9 to prepare their defense. In reply, they announced a hunger strike, pleading that two days was an inappropriate time frame to prepare their defense.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Earle |first1=Jonathan |title=Pussy Riot Suspects Go on Hunger Strike |date=July 5, 2012 |url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/pussy-riot-suspects-go-on-hunger-strike/461594.html |access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref> On July 21, the court extended their preventive prison to last six more months.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://in.reuters.com/article/russia-pussyriot-trial-idINL6E8IKGPU20120720|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203052736/http://in.reuters.com/article/russia-pussyriot-trial-idINL6E8IKGPU20120720|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 3, 2016|last=Baczynska|first=Gabriela|title=Russia extends jailing of Pussy Riot activists |date=July 20, 2012 |work=Reuters |access-date=June 9, 2020}}</ref> The three detained members were recognized as political prisoners by the Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners.<ref><span class="plainlinks">{{cite news|url= http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2012/03/25/961247.html|title= Троих предполагаемых участниц Pussy Riot признали политзаключенными|newspaper= Росбалт|date= March 25, 2012}} [http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&u=http://www.rosbalt.ru/moscow/2012/03/25/961247.html Google translation.]</span></ref> [[Amnesty International]] considers them to be prisoners of conscience for "the severity of the response of the Russian authorities".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR46/014/2012/en/c9edb950-30b6-4b90-a4d3-ddf8b97bc4c3/eur460142012en.htm|title=Russia: Release punk singers held after performance in church |date=April 3, 2012 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=June 9, 2020}}{{dead link|date=June 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

[[File:Inauguración de la exposición "Los Padres" del artista Abel Azcona en Madrid - 2.jpg|right|thumb|The artist [[Abel Azcona]] during [[The Fathers]] at museum of [[Madrid]], 2018]]

Since 2012, artist [[Abel Azcona]] has been prosecuted for some of his works. The demand that gained the most repercussion{{clarify|date=October 2020}} was the one carried out by the [[Archbishopric]] of [[Pamplona]] and [[Tudela, Navarre|Tudela]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Europa|first1=Press|title=El Arzobispado de Pamplona-Tudela se moviliza contra la exposición de Abel Azcona|url=https://www.europapress.es/navarra/noticia-arzobispado-pamplona-tudela-moviliza-contra-exposicion-abel-azcona-20151124175916.html|access-date=June 10, 2020|work=Europa Press|date=November 24, 2015}}</ref> in representation of the [[Catholic Church]].<ref name="PHR9ab17">{{cite web |url= https://www.elespanol.com/cultura/arte/20170408/206979557_0.html|first1=Peio|last1= H. Riaño|publisher=El Español |title= Abel Azcona: "Tatuarme a Donald Trump en el ano no transforma nada"|date=April 9, 2017|access-date=June 10, 2020}}</ref> The Church demanded Azcona for desecration and blasphemy crimes, hate crime and attack against the religious freedom and feelings for his work ''[[Amen or The Pederasty]]''.<ref name="DD18">{{cite web|url=https://www.lamarea.com/2018/06/26/abel-azcona-prefiero-artistas-en-las-carceles-que-artistas-callados-en-su-estudio/|title=Abel Azcona: "Prefiero artistas en las cárceles que artistas callados en su estudio"|access-date=June 10, 2020|last1=Domínguez |first1=Dani|date=June 26, 2018|publisher=La Marea}}</ref><ref name=":31">{{cite news|last1=H. Riaño|first1=Peio|title=El artista Abel Azcona planta al juez que lo investiga por escribir "pederastia" con hostias consagradas|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/02/05/actualidad/1549333154_791636.html|access-date=June 10, 2020|work=El País|date=February 5, 2019}}</ref> In 2016, Azcona was denounced for extolling terrorism<ref>{{cite news|title=Abel Azcona, de la profanación a la humillación de las víctimas del terrorismo|url=https://infovaticana.com/2016/12/20/abel-azcona-la-profanacion-la-humillacion-las-victimas-del-terrorismo/|access-date=December 24, 2019|work=Infovaticana|date=December 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Tecé|first1=Gerardo|title=Coños, antisistema y medias mentiras|url=https://ctxt.es/es/20160217/Politica/4337/Carmena-Zapata-ABC-El-mundo-Abel-Azcona-inda.htm|access-date=December 24, 2019|work=Contexto CTX|date=February 16, 2016}}</ref> for his exhibition ''Natura Morta'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rocaumbert.com/noticies/instal·lacions-vives-a-lexposicio-naturaleza-muerta-dabel-azcona/|title=Instal-lacions vives a l´exposició Naturaleza Muerta d´Abel Azcona|access-date=December 24, 2019|date=2016|work=Museo Roca Umbert|last1=Roca Umbert|first1=Fábrica de las Artes}}</ref> in which the artist recreated situations of violence, historical memory, terrorism or war conflicts through performance and hyperrealistic sculptures and installations.<ref>{{cite news|title=L'art viu, sobre la mort, d'Abel Azcona|url=https://www.somgranollers.cat/noticia/37652/lart-viu-sobre-la-mort-dabel-azcona|access-date=December 24, 2019|work=Cultura Granollers|date=April 10, 2017}}</ref>

In December 2014 [[Tania Bruguera]] was detained in [[La Habana]] to prevent her from carrying out new reivindicative{{clarify|date=October 2020}} works. Her performance art pieces have earned her harsh critiques, and she has been accused of promoting resistance and public disturbances.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Espejo|first1=Bea|title=Tania Brugera: "Cuba favorece hoy un arte fácil y superficial"|url=http://www.elcultural.com/revista/especial/Tania-Brugera-Cuba-favorece-hoy-un-arte-facil-y-superficial/35905|access-date=May 16, 2020|work=El Cultural|date=February 6, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2015/01/150101_perfil_tania_bruguera_ig |title=Tania Bruguera, la artista que desafía al gobierno de Cuba |access-date=May 16, 2020 |author=BBC |date=January 2, 2015}}</ref> In December 2015 and January 2016, Bruguera was detained for organizing a public performance in the plaza de la Revolución of La Habana. She was detained along with other Cuban artists, activists and reporters who took part in the campaign ''Yo También Exijo'', which was created after the declarations of Raúl Castro and Barack Obama in favor of restoring their diplomatic relationship. During the performance ''El Susurro de Tatlin #6'' she set microphones and talkers{{clarify|date=October 2020}} in the Plaza de la Revolución so the Cubans could express their feelings regarding the new political climate. The event had great repercussion in international media, including a presentation of ''El Susurro de Tatlin #6'' in Times Square, and an action in which various artists and intellectuals expressed themselves in favour of the liberation of Bruguera by sending an open letter to Raúl Castro signed by thousands of people around the world asking for the return of her passport and claiming criminal injustice, as she only gave a microphone to the people so they could give their opinion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/enc09-performances/item/52-09-tania-bruguera|title=Tania Bruguera|access-date=June 5, 2020|author=Hemispheric Institute|date=2009|archive-date=October 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005124055/http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/es/enc09-performances/item/52-09-tania-bruguera|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taniabruguera.com/cms/608-0-GLOSSARY.htm|title=Glosario|access-date=November 14, 2014|author=Tania Bruguera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Pinto|first1=Roberto|title=Ejercicio de Resistencia Tania Bruguera|date=2003|publisher=Torino|location=Turin, Italy|page=25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Pinto|first1=Roberto|title=Ejercicio de Resistencia Tania Bruguera|date=2003|publisher=Galeria Soffiantino|location=Turin, Italy|pages=25–26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Corral|first1=María|title=Tania Bruguera|date=2005|isbn=0-9769449-0-1|editor=Vivian Lechuga|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=8}}</ref>

In November 2015 and October 2017 [[Petr Pavlensky]] was arrested for carrying out a radical performance art piece in which he set on fire the entry of the Lubyanka Building, headquarters of the Federal Security Service of Russia, and a branch office of the Bank of France.<ref>{{cite news|title=Russian Artist Pyotr Pavlensky Sentenced over Paris Bank Fire|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/russian-artist-pyotr-pavlensky-sentenced-over-paris-bank-fire-78313|access-date=May 16, 2020|work=ArtForum|date=January 15, 2019}}</ref> On both occasions he sprayed the main entrance with gasoline; in the second performance he sprayed the inside as well, and ignited it with a lighter. The doors of the building were partially burnt. Both times Pavlenski was arrested without resistance and accused of debauchery. A few hours after the actions, several political and artistic reivindicative videos appeared on the internet.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=Jonathan|title=Pyotr Pavlensky is setting Russia's evil history ablaze|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/nov/09/pyotr-pavlensky-is-setting-russias-evil-history-ablaze|work=The Guardian|date=November 9, 2015|access-date=February 24, 2020}}</ref>

[[Lia Garcia]], a [[Transfeminism|transfeminist]] performance artist from Mexico, who works under the stage name la Novia Sirena, uses themes of touch and vulnerability to highlight issues of gendered violence and [[transgender]] belonging. Frequently engaged in site specific spaces, In her piece, '''''Proyecto 10bis (2016-2017)''''' Garcia performed in El Reclusorio Norte, a prison located in [[Mexico City]], dressed as a [[quinceañera]], and danced with the inmates, using touch as a way to contest the spaces that are intended to separate the incarcerated from the rest of the population.<ref>Huitrón, Delgado, and Cynthia Citlallin. “Haptic TacticHypertenderness for the [Mexican] State and the Performances of Lia García.” ''TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly'' 6, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 164–79. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-7348454</nowiki>.</ref>

=== Institutionalization of performance art / performance collecting processes ===
[[File:ArtistIsPresent.jpg|thumb|[[Marina Abramović]] performing ''The Artist Is Present'', [[MoMA]], Nueva York, 2010]]

Since the 2000s, big museums, institutions and collections have supported performance art. Since January 2003, [[Tate Modern]] in London has had a curated programme of live art and performance.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tate Modern Performance. BMW Tate Live|url=https://revistalupita.art/expo/tate-modern-performance-bmw-tate-live/|access-date=May 11, 2020|work=Lupita. Arte de América Latina en Europa|date=2016}}</ref> With exhibitions by artists such as [[Tania Bruguera]] or [[Anne Imhof]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tate|first1=Modern|title=Anne Imnhof: Sex|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/performance/bmw-tate-live|publisher=Tate Modern|date=2019|access-date=May 13, 2020}}</ref> In 2012 The Tanks at [[Tate Modern]] were opened: the first dedicated spaces for performance, film and installation in a major modern and contemporary art museum.

The [[Museum of Modern Art]] held a major retrospective and performance recreation of [[Marina Abramović]]'s work, the biggest exhibition of performance art in MoMA's history, from March 14 to 31, 2010.<ref>Kino, Carol (March 10, 2010). [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/arts/design/14performance.html?pagewanted=all A Rebel Form Gains Favor. Fights Ensue.], ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved April 16, 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Marina Abramovic: Performance y Polémica en el Moma|url=https://www.revistaarcadia.com/arte/articulo/marina-abramovic-performance-polemica-moma/21948|access-date=May 11, 2020|work=Revista Arcadia|date=March 30, 2010}}</ref> The exhibition consisted of more than twenty pieces by the artist, most of them from the years 1960–1980. Many of them were re-activated by other young artists of multiple nationalities selected for the show.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cotter|first1=Holland|title=700-Hour Silent Opera Reaches Finale at MoMA|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/31/arts/design/31diva.html|access-date=May 11, 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|date= May 30, 2010}}</ref> In parallel to the exhibition, Abramovic performed ''The Artist is Present'', a 726-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium, while spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yazmany-arboleda/bringing-marina-flowers_b_592597.html|title=SBringing Marina Flowers|last=Arboleda|first=Yazmany|author-link=Yazmany Arboleda|date=May 28, 2010|newspaper=The Huffington Post|access-date=June 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822174846/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yazmany-arboleda/bringing-marina-flowers_b_592597.html|archive-date=August 22, 2011}}</ref> The work is an updated reproduction of one of the pieces from 1970, shown in the exhibition, where Abramovic stayed for full days next to Ulay, who was her sentimental companion. The performance attracted celebrities such as [[Björk]], [[Orlando Bloom]] and [[James Franco]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bell|first1=Christopher|title=Review: 'Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present' Is A Good But Conventional Doc On An Unconventional Artist|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/06/review-marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present-is-a-good-but-conventional-doc-on-an-unconventional-artist-109309/|access-date=May 11, 2020|work=IndieWire|date=June 14, 2012}}</ref> who participated and received media coverage.<ref>[http://thoughtcatalog.com/2010/marina-abramovic-the-staring-woman-at-moma/ thoughtcatalog.com/2010/marina-abramovic]</ref>

Against the background of the institutionalisation of performance, the Bruxelles-based initiative A Performance Affair<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kerr |first=Liv Vaisberg, Will |title=APA • A Performance Affair • re:production, The Second Edition 2019 |url=https://aperformanceaffair.com/ |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=aperformanceaffair.com |language=English}}</ref> co founded by [[Liv Vaisberg]] and Will Kerr and the London-based format Performance Exchange<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.performance-exchange.org/ |access-date=2022-09-12 |website=Performance Exchange |language=en}}</ref> inquire about the collectability of performance works. With The Non-fungible Body?, the Austrian museum and culture centre [https://www.ooekultur.at/event-detail/performance-festival-the-non-fungible-body?expired&fbclid=IwAR2-U8j6DMO50ByKptigw2mSRNce_mx-ERd4OJ0NbKTp7r-p1-P4kh-3HGk OÖLKG/OK] reflects upon recent developments in institutionalizing performance through a discursive festival format that was presented for the first time in June 2022.

<gallery widths="200" heights="200">
File:Detail of Facade of Guggenheim Museum with Yoko Ono Banner - Bilbao - Biscay - Spain (14434764509).jpg|Facade of the [[Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao]] with a [[Yoko Ono]] Banner
File:Shibboleth - Tate Modern 2007.jpg|Work by [[Doris Salcedo]] in the [[Tate Modern]] in London, 2007
File:Marina 1 1.jpg|[[Marina Abramović]] during her seven performances in ''Seven Easy Pieces'' (2005), in the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]]
File:Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010 (4422516908).jpg|Zenith shot of the performance ''The Artist Is Present'' in the [[Museum of Modern Art]]

File:Marina Abramović. The Cleaner.jpg|Work by [[Marina Abramović]] reproduced for the retrospective in [[Bologna]], Italy, 2018
File:128 aktion 22.10.09 613.jpg|[[Hermann Nitsch]] carrying out a performance in his homonymous museum (2009)
File:Fleeting-glimpse-bryan-zanisnik.jpg|Performance by Bryan Zanisnik, called ''When I Was a Child I Caught a Fleeting Glimpse'', 2009
File:Muestra Yoko Ono- Quito4.jpg|Exhibition dedicated to [[Yoko Ono]] in the Cultural Metropolitan Centre of [[Quito]] (2018)
</gallery>

=== Collective revindication performance art ===
[[File:Un violador en tu camino - ensayo en la Alameda Central de la Ciudad de México.jpg|300px|thumb|''[[A Rapist in Your Path]]'' in the main street of [[Mexico City]]]]
In 2014 the performance art piece ''[[Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)|Carry That Weight]]'' is created, also known as "the mattress performance". The artist behind this piece is [[Emma Sulkowicz]] who, during her end of degree thesis in visual arts in the [[Columbia University]] in the city of New York City. In September 2014, Sulkowicz's piece began, as she started carrying her own mattress around the [[Columbia University]] campus.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/did-emma-sulkowicz-mattress-performance-get-redpilled.html|title=Did Emma Sulkowicz Get Redpilled? At the very least, she's found a new social set.|author=Sylvie McNamara|date=October 28, 2019|work=The Cut|access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref> This work was created by the artist with the goal of denouncing her rape in that same mattress years before, in her own dormitory, which she reported and was not heard by the university or the justice,<ref name=ignore>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/29/its-hard-to-ignore-a-woman-toting-a-mattress-everywhere-she-goes-which-is-why-emma-sulkowicz-is-still-doing-it|title=It's hard to ignore a woman toting a mattress everywhere she goes, which is why Emma Sulkowicz is still doing it|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=October 29, 2014| first1=Soraya Nadia| last1= McDonald}}</ref> so she decided to carry the mattress with her for the entire semester, without leaving it at any moment, until her graduation ceremony in May 2015. The piece generated great controversy, but was supported by a bunch of her companions and activists who joined Sulkowicz multiple times when carrying the mattress, making the work an international revindication. Art critic Jerry Saltz considered the artwork to be one of the most important of the year 2014. <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/12/19-best-art-shows-of-2014.html|title=The 19 Best Art Shows of 2014|newspaper=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]]|date=December 10, 2014|first=Jerry|last=Slatz}}</ref>

In 2019 the collective performance art piece ''[[A Rapist in Your Path]]'' was created by a feminist group from [[Valparaíso]], Chile named [[Lastesis]], which consisted of a demonstration against the women's rights violations in the context of the [[2019–2020 Chilean protests]].<ref name=":23">{{Cite web|url=https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/11/28/mexico/1574902455_578060.html|title=Ellas son las chilenas que crearon 'Un violador en tu camino'|access-date=November 30, 2019|last1=Rodríguez|first1=Darinka|date=November 28, 2019|website=Verne}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/violador-camino-feministas-musica-protestas-willy-arteaga-cacerolazo-sinfonico-pkg-digital-original/|title=Las protestas virales al ritmo de la música|access-date=November 30, 2019|first1=Daniela |last1=Patiño|date=November 30, 2019|website=CNN}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite news|title="El violador eres tú": el potente himno feminista nacido en Chile que da la vuelta al mundo|url=https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-50610467|date=November 30, 2019|access-date=November 30, 2019|author=BBC}}</ref> It was first performed in front of the Second Police Station of the [[Carabineros de Chile]] in [[Valparaíso]] on November 18, 2019.<ref name="RedGol">{{Cite web|url=https://redgol.cl/tiempolibre/Las-Tesis-Intervencion-viralizada-del-colectivo-feminista-se-expande-por-Chile-y-el-mundo-20191129-0042.html|title=Las Tesis: Intervención viralizada del colectivo feminista se expande por Chile y el mundo|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=RedGol|date=November 29, 2019 }}</ref> A second performance done by 2000 Chilean women on November 25, 2019, as a part of the [[International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women]], was filmed and became viral on social media.<ref name=":3b">{{Cite web|url=https://larepublica.pe/mundo/2019/11/27/chile-colectivo-lastesis-el-violador-eres-tu-el-performance-contra-la-violencia-de-genero/|title="Un violador en tu camino", el canto viral de un colectivo feminista chileno contra la violencia de género [VIDEO]|access-date=June 5, 2020|date=November 28, 2019|website=larepublica.pe}}</ref> Its reach became global<ref name="excelsior">{{Cite web|url=https://www.excelsior.com.mx/global/el-mundo-se-une-al-grito-de-un-violador-en-tu-camino-asi-las-protestas/1350502|title=El mundo se une al grito de 'Un violador en tu camino'; así las protestas|access-date=June 5, 2020|date=November 30, 2019|website=Excélsior}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20191130/471961599764/un-violador-en-tu-camino-chile-las-tesis-mexico-feministas.html|title=El cántico chileno de 'Un violador en tu camino' retumba en todo el mundo|access-date=June 5, 2020|date=November 30, 2019|website=La Vanguardia}}</ref> after feminist movements in dozens of countries adopted and translated the performance for their own protests and demands for the cessation and punishment of femicide and sexual violence, amongst others.<ref name="cnnchile">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnnchile.com/mundo/un-violador-en-tu-camino-lastesis-videos-mundo_20191129/|title="Un violador en tu camino": Himno feminista de Lastesis es interpretado en todo Chile, América Latina y Europa|access-date=June 5, 2020|website=CNN Chile}}</ref>

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File:Emma Sulkowicz, Mattress Performance, 19 May 2015 (cropped).JPG|Companions of [[Emma Sulkowicz]] and the artist herself carrying the mattress to the graduation as a complaint
File:Mattress Performance rules of engagement.jpg|Sulkowicz with the instructions for her performance in the [[Columbia University]]
File:Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), 10 September 2014.jpg|Part of Sulkowicz's performance, an action called "Llevemos el peso entre todas" (''Carry That Weight Together'')
File:Emma Sulkowicz, 14 December 2014.jpg|Sulkowicz's portrait in one of the presentations of the work
File:Roberta Smith, Emma Sulkowicz, 14 December 2014.jpg|[[Roberta Smith]], ''New York Times'' [[art critic]] (left), discussing ''Mattress Performance'' with Sulkowicz, [[Brooklyn Museum]], December 14, 2014
File:Un violador en tu camino, performance Oaxaca 2019.jpg|Mexican interpretation of ''[[A Rapist in Your Path]]'' in [[Oaxaca]], November 27, 2019
File:El violador eres tú, Santiago 20191219 36.jpg|''A Rapist in Your Path'' presented in the context of the [[2019–2020 Chilean protests]]
File:Un violador en tu camino Lima, Perú.png|Peruvian interpretation of ''A Rapist in Your Path'' in Lima, December 12, 2019
File:Estado violador.jpg|''A Rapist in Your Path'' presented in the context of the 2019–2020 Chilean protests
File:"el violador eres tú".jpg|A child intervening during the performance of ''A Rapist in Your Path''
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