Editing Performance art (section)

=== 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>